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UnitedHealth Group Inc.
Public
Traded as UNH
DJIA component
S&P 100 component
S&P 500 component
Industry Managed health care
Founded 1977; 41 years ago (1977)
Founder Richard T. Burke
Headquarters Minnetonka, Minnesota, U.S.
Key people
Richard T. Burke (Chairman)
Dave Wichmann (CEO)
Products Uniprise, Health Care Services, Specialized Care Services, and Ingenix
Revenue IncreaseUS$201.1 billion (2017)
IncreaseUS$15.20 billion (2017)
IncreaseUS$10.82 billion (2017)
Total assets IncreaseUS$139.0 billion (2017)
Total equity IncreaseUS$49.83 billion (2017)
Number of employees
270,000 (2018)
Website www.unitedhealthgroup.com
Health care in the United States
Government Health Programs

Private health coverage

Health care reform law

State level reform
Municipal health coverage


UnitedHealth Group Inc. is an American for-profit managed health care company based in Minnetonka, Minnesota. It is sixth in the United States on the Fortune 500. UnitedHealth Group offers health care products and insurance services. UnitedHealth Group is the largest healthcare company in the world by revenue $184 billion in 2016. UnitedHealth Group subsidiaries companies together serves approximately 115 million individuals in 2016.

In 2011, J.D. Power and Associates gave UnitedHealthcare the highest employer satisfaction rating for self-insured health plans. In a 2010 insurance industry publication, Business Insurance, UnitedHealthcare was named "Readers Choice" winner in 2010 for "Best health plan provider". In 2016, Optum was named "North America Company of the Year for Population Health Management" by Frost & Sullivan

Beginning in 2011 and continuing into 2012, UnitedHealth Group implemented an enterprise reorganization. This coincided with retiring brands adopted following the various acquisitions of previous years and adopting the unified brand UnitedHealthcare. The firm decided to refocus its UK business solely on commissioning support under the name of Optum, and exploit the opportunities presented by the United Kingdom Government's NHS reforms in 2011. Towards this end, it sold its six primary care clinics.

Optum includes three divisions:

In addition, there are two shared service functions under Optum: Optum Technology and Optum Operations.

UnitedHealthcare includes four divisions:

In 1974, Richard Taylor Burke founded Charter Med Incorporated, a Minnetonka, Minnesota-based privately held company. In 1977, UnitedHealthCare Corporation was created to reorganize the company and become the parent company of Charter Med. UnitedHealthCare’s charter was to manage the newly created Physicians Health Plan of Minnesota, an early health management organization.

In 1994, UnitedHealth sold its pharmacy benefit manager, Diversified Pharmaceutical Services, to SmithKline Beecham for $2.3 billion. Also in 1994, UnitedHealth acquired Ramsey-HMO, a Florida insurer.


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