Becker's Healthcare July 22, 2024
Here are 12 updates on UnitedHealth Group and its subsidiaries that Becker’s has reported since July 8:
1. Former employees with UnitedHealth Group’s Optum and its subsidiaries took to social media beginning July 18 regarding another reduction in force they say occurred across parts of the company.
2. UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty is touting the company’s home healthcare visits for its Medicare Advantage beneficiaries. The comments from the largest MA insurer come shortly after a July Wall Street Journal investigation found that between 2018 and 2021, insurers received $50 billion for diagnoses they added to members’ charts. Many of these diagnoses were “questionable,” according to the investigation.
3. Mr. Witty said the company was “over-optimistic” about how...
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