From announcing a plan to eliminate 20 percent of its current prior authorization requirements, to its proposed acquisition of a U.K.-based company facing a deeper probe, here are nine updates about UnitedHealth Group that Becker's has reported since March 14:
1. UnitedHealth Group is the most innovative payer in 2023, according to Fortune.
2. The U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority referred UnitedHealth Group's proposed acquisition of the health technology firm EMIS Group for an in-depth investigation.
3. UnitedHealthcare is moving forward with a plan to eliminate 20 percent of its current prior authorizations and implement a national gold-card program.
4. The American Gastroenterological Association is asking its members to contact UnitedHealthcare to stop new prior authorization requirements from going into effect June 1.
5. UnitedHealth Group indicated it would not renew the lease at its 20-acre campus in Minnetonka, Minn., which runs through 2024.
6. The Justice Department is no longer pursuing an appeal to block UnitedHealth Group's $7.8 billion purchase of Change Healthcare that closed in October.
7. UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty was named the seventh most influential CEO in 2023 by CEO World's annual ranking.
8. UnitedHealth Group members asked a federal appeals court to reassess a former ruling in favor of a UnitedHealth subsidiary they say has led to "disastrous consequences" for employee benefit plans and millions of mental health and addiction patients.
9. UnitedHealth Group and the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta partnered on a new mobile app that will offer postpartum support to new Black mothers and their children.