UnitedHealth disclosed in a regulatory filing it has acquired KS Plan Administrators, a Medicare health insurer in Houston, the Star Tribune reported Aug. 16.
KS Plan Administrators is affiliated with Kelsey-Seybold, a Houston-based medical group that a stock analyst said in July had been acquired by UnitedHealth Group for about $2 billion, according to the report. UnitedHealth Group has not commented on the financial terms or ownership structure of the Kelsey-Seybold transaction, saying in July that its Optum business for healthcare services is now "aligned" with the physician group.
KS Plan Administrators covered about 41,000 Medicare beneficiaries and generated about $147 million in premium revenue in the first quarter of 2021, according to the report.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed in the Aug. 12 regulatory filing.