Here are 10 updates on UnitedHealth Group and its subsidiaries that Becker’s has reported since June 25:
1. UnitedHealth Group has engaged in an “an aggressive and wide-ranging campaign” against several groups of critics following the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in late 2024, The New York Times reported. Throughout this year, the company has used legal threats and lawsuits to minimize criticism of its business practices coming from media outlets and journalists, investors, providers and activists, per the report.
2. UnitedHealthcare named four CEOs to lead government-focused units of the company.
3. A virtual diabetes management program offered by UnitedHealthcare has shown measurable changes in members’ behavior, and for some employers, a return on investment.
4. Justice Department officials questioned former UnitedHealth Group employees as part of an investigation into the company’s Medicare Advantage billing practices, The Wall Street Journal reported.
5. The American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology is contesting a new reimbursement policy from UnitedHealthcare that will cut payments by 15% for some certified registered nurse anesthetists.
6. A Minnesota judge ruled against UnitedHealthcare in a lawsuit challenging a state law barring for-profit insurers from the state’s Medicaid program.
7. New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and UnitedHealthcare reached a multi-year agreement that ensures the health system will remain in network for commercial members.
8. UnitedHealth Group’s Optum Rx removed reauthorization requirements for more than 60 chronic disease medications on July 1.
9. Patrick Conway, MD, CEO of Optum, is taking on the additional role of Optum Health.
10. UnitedHealth Group is requiring some hybrid employees in Minnesota and Washington, D.C. to be in office four days per week.
