Here are 11 updates on UnitedHealth Group and its subsidiaries that Becker's has reported since July 22:
1. UnitedHealth Group recorded the largest profit among major payers in the second quarter of 2024.
2. The consumerization of healthcare is accelerating, and the nation's largest health insurer is keeping pace. In 2024, senior leaders at UnitedHealthcare have shared with Becker's how the company is prioritizing personalized services and products led by consumer preferences.
3. UnitedHealth Group's Change Healthcare mailed the first of what are likely to be millions of data breach notifications following a February ransomware attack.
4. UnitedHealth Group is among the 10 largest companies in the world, according to Fortune's Global 500.
5. UnitedHealth Group is suing the state of Minnesota over a law that bans for-profit Medicaid managed-care providers from participating in the state's Medicaid program.
6. UnitedHealthcare will launch its national gold-card program on Oct. 1.
7. Insurers, including UnitedHealth Group, made billions from diagnoses added to Medicare Advantage beneficiaries' charts during home visits, a Wall Street Journal investigation found. Wyatt Decker, MD, executive vice president and chief physician of UnitedHealth Group, told the Journal UnitedHealth's patient population is sicker than other insurers and its nurse practitioners are highly effective at their jobs.
8. The Justice Department pointed to antitrust scrutiny for why UnitedHealth Group's Optum backed out of its planned acquisition of Dallas-based Steward Health Care's physician group, Stewardship Health.
9. UnitedHealth Group will invest $25 million for housing for veterans experiencing homelessness and low and middle-income individuals.
10. Bloomington, Minn.-based HealthPartners plans to split with UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage plans at the end of 2024.
11. UnitedHealthcare and Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health reached a contract agreement after the health system was out of network for seven months.