Becker's Healthcare July 2, 2024
Here are 10 updates on UnitedHealth Group and its subsidiaries that Becker’s has reported since June 17:
1. Several Trinity Health hospitals from coast to coast are now out of network with UnitedHealthcare amid reimbursement disputes between the organizations.
2. Amedisys and UnitedHealth Group agreed to sell an unknown number of care centers to VitalCaring Group amid the companies’ planned merger later this year.
3. OptumRx will pay $20 million to settle allegations it improperly dispensed some opioid medications.
4. Optum has scrapped its plan to acquire Dallas-based Steward Health Care’s physician group, Stewardship Health.
5. Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin filed a lawsuit against pharmacy benefit managers OptumRx and Express Scripts for their alleged role in...