From the departure of a longtime executive, to limiting employee raises, here are 10 updates on UnitedHealth Group and its subsidiaries that Becker’s has reported since Feb. 10.
1. UnitedHealth Group named Dennis Stankiewicz as chief accounting officer. Tom Roos, who served as CAO since 2015, was named CFO at Optum Insight.
2. UnitedHealth Group is limiting employee raises to between 0% and 2% this year and laying off an unspecified number of workers, Bloomberg reported Feb. 27.
3. Longtime UnitedHealth Group executive Heather Cianfrocco departed the company. She had served as executive vice president of governance, compliance and information security at UnitedHealth since April 2025. She briefly served as CEO of Optum from 2024 to 2025 before being succeeded by Patrick Conway, MD, who previously led Optum Rx.
4. AmeriHealth Caritas is dropping its pharmacy benefit manager business, PerformRx, and transitioning to Optum Rx instead. The switch to Optum Rx will go into effect at the start of 2027.
5. UnitedHealth Group Board Chairman and CEO Stephen Hemsley privately invested in healthcare companies that work with UnitedHealth or have competing offerings, The Wall Street Journal reported.
6. UnitedHealth Group reported a net income of $12.1 billion in 2025, the highest among the nation’s largest payers.
7. UnitedHealth reported a medical loss ratio of 89.1% in 2025, compared to 85.5% in 2024 and 83.2% in 2023.
8. Optum is closing Family Medical Group Northeast, a clinic in Portland, Ore., which it acquired in 2021.
9. UnitedHealthcare named Justin Wright chief technology officer, according to a post on his LinkedIn page.
10. Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Health System is suing Optum and Change Healthcare, alleging that Change owes the system at least $1.2 million in outstanding claims.
