UnitedHealth Group's second-quarter net income rose almost 8%, buoyed by steady enrollment growth and slower-than-expected use of healthcare services. FULL STORY »
The nation's largest health insurer, UnitedHealth Group, is leaving California's individual health insurance market, the second major company to exit in advance of major changes under the ACA. FULL STORY »
People in 36 of Mississippi's 82 counties may not be able to buy health insurance through the new federal online marketplace when it starts enrolling customers in October. FULL STORY »
UnitedHealth Group will offer coverage in just a dozen of the healthcare law's insurance exchanges, in the latest sign big insurers see little gain from quickly plunging into the new markets. FULL STORY »
In California, the most populous state in the country, one might think that insurers would be tripping over themselves to get plans on Covered California, the state's health insurance exchange. But that would be wrong. FULL STORY »
Falling Medicare Advantage payments helped contribute to UnitedHealth Group posting a year-over-year first-quarter decline in profits on Thursday, with the nation's largest health insurer saying it was also hampered by a large public-sector customer switching from fully funded to self-funded... FULL STORY »
A Nevada state court jury found the state's largest health management organization liable Thursday for $24 million in compensatory damages to three plaintiffs in a negligence lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis C outbreak that lawyers called the largest in U.S. history. FULL STORY »
A UnitedHealth Group unit put money ahead of people by failing to properly monitor a Las Vegas doctor who gave colonoscopy patients hepatitis C by mishandling the anesthetic Propofol, a lawyer told a state court jury. FULL STORY »
By Melanie Evans | March 23, 2013
| Print Magazine
One of the nation's largest not-for-profit hospital operators is building its own insurance arm to sell health plans directly to employers. FULL STORY »
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