United Healthcare
UnitedHealth is not unusual when compared to other major insurers. Instead, the company and its willingness to deny people treatment and care that they need are seen as endemic to the entire healthcare industry, and thousands of people who have to regularly interface with their insurance providers are furious about it.- Joseph Allen
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UnitedHealth Group (UHG) is the largest healthcare conglomerate in the country, with over 2,300 different companies. Its business lines include health insurance, pharmacies, pharmacy benefits, surgery centers, primary care clinics, hospice agencies, mental health providers, and home health agencies... Across these business lines, UnitedHealth Group has a history of denying claims for necessary procedures or medications, unfairly squeezing out independent physician practices and pharmacies, and fraudulently manipulating medical and patient data to maximize its profits.
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Health Care’s Colossus
This series highlights how UnitedHealth Group wields its unrivaled physician empire to boost its profits and expand its influence.
UnitedHealth Is Facing a Wave of Backlash Following CEO's Killing
The company's problems are symptoms of larger dissatisfaction with the American healthcare system.
UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.
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How rising health care claim denials are hurting Americans
The targeted killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December became a turning point in the public’s growing frustration with the health insurance industry. People began sharing stories online about how insurers denied them coverage, upending their lives.
Insurers Pocketed $50 Billion From Medicare for Diseases No Doctor Treated
Questionable diagnoses of HIV and other maladies triggered extra Medicare Advantage payments; ‘It’s anatomically impossible’
Lawmakers call for curbs on UnitedHealth’s growing empire
Democratic lawmakers are calling for aggressive action to curb the increasing market power of UnitedHealth Group, including a possible breakup of a business empire they say is undermining competition, corrupting Medicare, and hurting vulnerable patients.
Most Americans blame insurance profits and coverage denials alongside killer in UnitedHealthcare CEO death, poll finds
Most Americans believe health insurance profits and coverage denials share responsibility for the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO — although not as much as the person who pulled the trigger, according to a new poll.
UnitedHealth grew very big. Now, some lawmakers want to chop it down.
In health care, no one is bigger than UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest private health insurer and largest employer of physicians. The nearly $400 billion umbrella company also helps run hospitals, has rapidly acquired outpatient surgery centers, is expanding into home health services — and fell victim to a cyberattack this winter that brought the U.S. health-care system to its knees and has prompted congressional hearings this week.
UnitedHealth under antitrust investigation by DOJ: reports
Regulators are looking into the massive healthcare conglomerate’s potential anticompetitive effects, including the relationship between its health insurer UnitedHealthcare and physician network Optum.
UnitedHealthcare CEO's slaying adds tragic twist to parent company's tumultuous year
Between a software attack, protests, lawsuits, insider trading accusations and layoffs by one of its subsidiaries, Thompson's killing adds a tragic end to a troubled year for the company.
UnitedHealthcare Has Faced Scrutiny Over Denying Claims
The company has been accused of using algorithms to deny treatments and refusing coverage of nursing care to stroke patients.
Why Americans are outraged over health insurance — and what could change
The deadly, targeted shooting of UnitedHealthcare's CEO, Brian Thompson, has unleashed a torrent of pent-up anger and resentment toward the insurance industry, renewed calls for reform and reignited a debate over health care in the U.S. Many patients, advocacy groups and industry experts say the industry and U.S. health-care system are flawed or broken entirely, often disadvantaging Americans who simply need care. But there is less consensus on the root cause of the issues around insurance and how exactly to fix the industry.
