About UnitedHealth Group Incorporated
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (UNH) is a diversified healthcare enterprise organized into four segments: UnitedHealthcare, Optum Health, Optum Insight, and Optum Rx. UnitedHealthcare offers health benefit plans and consumer-focused services to large national employers, public sector employers, mid-sized and small businesses, and individual consumers, along with specialized coverage and wellness programs. Optum Health provides care delivery and health management services, Optum Insight supplies health data, analytics, and technology solutions, and Optum Rx delivers pharmacy benefit management services.
Why it matters
UnitedHealth Group is one of the largest healthcare companies by revenue and serves a broad cross-section of the U.S. health insurance and care delivery markets. Its combination of insurance operations through UnitedHealthcare and health services through Optum gives it a role in both paying for and delivering care, which distinguishes it from more narrowly focused peers. Investors and traders monitor the company because of its scale, its exposure to public and private health benefit trends, and its position in pharmacy benefits, care delivery, and health analytics.
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