UnitedHealth
What does UnitedHealth Group’s massive AI push mean for patients?
Based on an analysis of its job postings, it would be easy to confuse UnitedHealth Group with Silicon Valley’s latest artificial intelligence juggernaut. Hundreds of postings seek candidates with expertise in data science and artificial intelligence, part of a broader push to integrate AI into the company’s core businesses. UnitedHealth already employs 22,000 software engineers […]
UnitedHealth pays Optum doctors 17% more than outside providers
Tara Bannow covers hospitals, providers and insurers. You can reach Tara on Signal at tarabannow.70. UnitedHealth Group pays its own medical practices far more than competing practices, a new study finds, bolstering STAT’s own analysis on the subject and presenting new evidence that the conglomerate could circumvent a rule designed to curb health insurers’ profits. […]