UnitedHealthcare is offering certain employees in its benefits operations unit the option to accept buyouts if they quit by March 3, following a tumultuous year for the insurance giant, CNBC has learned. If the company does not meet a resignation quota through buyouts, it will lay employees off, two people familiar with the matter said, citing an internal resource site.
While UNH is pushing for a more efficient and cost-effective healthcare system, ongoing regulatory uncertainty and mounting cost pressures could keep the stock under check.
Since my last writing, some headwinds (e.g., on the Medicare Advantage and Medicaid fronts) have been developing around UNH. They have caused a significant price pullback. I consider the headwinds to be only temporary and the pullback overdone.
United Health (UNH -1.44%) is an unpopular business with investors right now.
Recently, Zacks.com users have been paying close attention to UnitedHealth (UNH). This makes it worthwhile to examine what the stock has in store.
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UnitedHealth has reached out to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission about billionaire investor Bill Ackman's now-deleted post on social media platform X that said he would take a short position in the healthcare conglomerate.
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman sent shares of UnitedHealth Group UNH lower with a tweet alleging overstated profits, which comes as the health insurance company faces more scrutiny after the death of an executive.
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The biggest medical-related data breach in U.S. history was even larger than first estimated. The ransomware attack on UnitedHealth's Change Healthcare business last year impacted around 190 million people, almost double past estimates, TechCrunch reported Friday (Jan. 24).
The cyberattack at UnitedHealth's tech unit Change affected the personal information of 190 million Americans, TechCrunch reported on Friday.