A new report finds Eden Prairie-based UnitedHealth Group and two Blue Cross Blue Shield nonprofit insurers had the highest claim-denial rates among individual market health plans sold in 2023 on the federal government’s HealthCare.

UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty said on Thursday that healthcare in the U.S. needs to be "less confusing, less complex and less costly" during the company's first earnings call since the murder of Brian Thompson,

The US Medicare agency dropped its appeal of a lawsuit brought by UnitedHealth Group Inc. challenging the program’s determination of quality ratings that drive Medicare payments.

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Friday said it would not appeal a court order that it recalculate the public star ratings it gave to UnitedHealth's privately administered Medicare health insurance plans,

In 2024, UnitedHealth Group saw full year revenue grow 8% over 2023 to reach $400.3 billion. Adjusted earnings from operations, excluding costs related to last year’s cyberattack on Change Healthcare and the company’s sale of its South American operations, were $34.4 billion for full year 2024.

Medicaid managed care organizations, including Elevance Health, Centene and UnitedHealth Group, are working with states to secure rates that account for sicker patients.

CMS issued the industry-wide ratings the next month. Among large insurers, UnitedHealthcare experienced one of the most dramatic drops in scores. In its lawsuit, the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary alleged the decline improperly cost the company “tens of millions” in federal payments.

UnitedHealth Group on Thursday named Tim Noel, the head of its Medicare business, to the top job at its health insurance business, a month after the unit’s former CEO Brian Thompson was killed.

UnitedHealth Group named Tim Noel the new CEO of the ... The U.S. health agency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), announced Tuesday that it will appeal a November 2024 ruling ...

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has abruptly withdrawn from a legal battle with UnitedHealth (UNH) Group, the nation’s largest

But high medical costs contributed to results that disappointed Wall Street, and the company’s stock fell on the news that it had made less than analysts expected.