UnitedHealth Group is again responding to a Wall Street Journal story about billing practices for its Medicare Advantage plan.

Justice Department prosecutors recently interviewed former employees about company practices that boost federal payments.

The investigation, which dates back to at least last summer, concerns alleged efforts to encourage staffers to record certain ...

Brian Thompson was a little-known health insurance lifer before this week. Now, he’s known the world over as the executive who was assassinated in cold blood outside a New York hotel. The 50 ...

The request landed on the desk of Thompson, who was running the company’s Medicare division at the time. “He immediately told the government we would do that for free. Why?

Here’s what to know about prior authorization, and what insurers have vowed to do. What is prior authorization? Prior authorization refers to when medical providers have to get ...

RFK Jr. said health insurance providers have committed to making the prior authorization process easier. The practice often delays or denies care to patients.

UnitedHealthcare on Thursday tapped company veteran Tim Noel as its new CEO following the targeted killing of its former top executive, Brian Thompson, in Manhattan in December.

Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, who was fatally shot in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday in what New York police called a “brazen, targeted attack,” was a longtime leader in ...

UnitedHealth Group was sued Wednesday for allegedly concealing how backlash from the killing of a top executive was damaging its business, causing its stock to nosedive after the insurer lowered ...