What is UnitedHealth Group?
[[Image:UnitedHealth Group logo.svg|right|250px]] '''UnitedHealth Group Incorporated''' is an American [[Multinational corporation|multinational]] [[Health care|healthcare]] and [[Insurance|insurance company]] based in [[Minnesota]]. [[UnitedHealthcare]] runs the insurance business. The healthcare business is called Optum. It was the world's eleventh-largest company by [[revenue]] and the largest healthcare company by revenue, and the largest insurance company by net premiums in 2023. '''Optum''' runs * OptumHealth - provides [[Primary care|primary and secondary care]]. * OptumInsight - provides [[Data|data analytics]], technology, and operations services. * OptumRX - provides [[pharmacy]] services. '''UnitedHealthcare''' * UnitedHealthcare Employer and Individual - provides health benefit plans and services for large national [[employer]]<nowiki/>s. * UnitedHealthcare Medicare and Retirement - provides health and well-being services to people over 65. * UnitedHealthcare Community and State - runs services for disadvantaged people in the USA, paid for by the [[State governments of the United States|State government]]<nowiki/>s * UnitedHealthcare Global - serves 6.2 million people with medical benefits, mostly in [[Brazil]], [[Chile]], [[Colombia]] and [[Peru]] but also in more than 130 other countries. In 2024, [[Brian Thompson (businessman)|the CEO]] of UnitedHealthcare [[Killing of Brian Thompson|was shot and killed]].<!--{{time ago|4 December 2024 11:45 UTC|magnitude=hours|ago=}} have gone by since the-->The CEO was shot outside a [[New York Hilton Midtown|Hilton hotel]] in [[New York City]]. The police [[Luigi Mangione|have a suspect in jail]] (since the month of the killing). ==History== It was started as Charter Med in 1974. It changed its name to UnitedHealth Group in 1988.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-03-03|title=UnitedHealth Group: The history of a health insurance giant|url=http://finance.yahoo.com/news/unitedhealth-group-history-health-insurance-192731176.html|access-date=2023-08-16|website=Ya