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UnitedHealth 2Q profit up as enrollment improves
By Associated Press | July 18, 2013
UnitedHealth Group's second-quarter net income rose almost 8%, buoyed by steady enrollment growth and slower-than-expected use of healthcare services.
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Vital Signs
Could insurers leaving Calif. individual market be a precursor?
By Jonathan Block | July 03, 2013
First Aetna, and now UnitedHealth.
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UnitedHealth to exit individual insurance market in California
By Los Angeles Times | July 02, 2013
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.
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Insurers may skip health plans in much of Miss.
By Jeff Amy / Associated Press | June 21, 2013
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.
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UnitedHealth spurns Obama exchanges as rules stall profit
By Bloomberg.com | May 31, 2013
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.
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Reform Update: Some big names take pass on Calif. insurance exchange
By Jonathan Block | May 23, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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.
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UnitedHealth blames Medicare Advantage, client move for fall in profits
By Jonathan Block | April 18, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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...
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Jury: HMO liable for $24M in Vegas hep C outbreak
By Associated Press | April 05, 2013
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.
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UnitedHealth unit accused of failing to monitor doctor
By Bloomberg | March 28, 2013
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.
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Magazine
Cutting out the middleman | Systems buying and developing insurance plans
By Melanie Evans | March 23, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
One of the nation's largest not-for-profit hospital operators is building its own insurance arm to sell health plans directly to employers.
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