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Headquartered in the United States, UnitedHealth Group is a distinctively diversified health & well-being company, a leader worldwide in helping people live healthier lives and helping make the health system work better for everyone.
The firm is dedicated to introducing innovative approaches, new products, and unique services that can improve personal health and also promote healthier populations in local communities. Their core capabilities in clinical expertise, health information, and advanced technology & data uniquely enable them to meet the evolving needs of an ever-changing health care environment.

The enterprise is comprised of two complementary business platforms: UnitedHealthcare for health benefits and Optum for health services. These two businesses share three enduring competencies:

• Data and information- to inform and guide health decision-making and health system performance;
• Advanced technology: to enable improved health outcomes and innovation in health care; and
• Clinical insights: to organize and augment systems of care to deliver better clinical outcomes at lower costs to individuals and to the health care system as a whole.

Businesses:

UnitedHealth Group is privileged to serve the people with health benefits & health services through its two distinct, complementary businesses: UnitedHealthcare and Optum.

• Health Benefits
  UnitedHealthcare, their Health Benefits platform, is dedicated to helping people live healthier lives by simplifying the health care experience, meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and sustaining trusted relationships with care providers.
  
  Business segments:
  1. Community and State: State Medicaid and Community Programs
     UnitedHealthcare Community & State provides innovative managed care solutions to state Medicaid programs, caring for the economically disadvantaged, the medically underserved and those without the benefit of employer-funded health care coverage. This business participates in many programs in 31 states and the District of Columbia, serving over 6.4 million beneficiaries.
  2. Employer and Individual: Employer-Sponsored and Individual Health Benefits
     UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual works closely with employers and individuals to provide a comprehensive array of consumer-oriented health benefit plans as well as services for large national employers, mid-sized employers, public sector employers, small businesses and individuals nationwide, providing 27 million Americans access to quality health care.
  3. Medicare and Retirement: Health Benefits for People Eligible for Medicare
     UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement addresses the health and well-being of seniors and other individuals eligible for Medicare, providing a wide spectrum of products and services to approximately one in five people in the growing senior market segment in all 50 states, in the District of Columbia and in most US territories.
  4. Global: Health Benefits and Services in Over 130 Countries
     UnitedHealthcare Global serves more than 6.1 million people with medical benefits, mainly in South America, but also residing in 130+ other countries. It safeguards the health, well-being, and productivity of global workforces with a comprehensive range of health & mobilization capabilities and supports the health systems of individual nations with health care technology, delivery, and financing. Clients include multi-national and local businesses, governments, non-U.S. health insurers, and travel insurers, reinsurers, and individuals and their families.
• Health Services
  Optum, their Health Services platform, is a leading information and technology-enabled health services business dedicated to modernizing the system and improving the health of people and communities.
  
  Business Segments:
  1. OPTUMHEALTH: Population Health Management and Health Care Delivery
     OptumHealth serves the financial and physical needs as well as the emotional needs of over 95 million individuals, enabling consumer health management and also the collaborative care delivery through programs offered by employers, government institutions, payers and, increasingly, directly with the care delivery system. OptumHealth’s solutions reduce costs for customers, helps to increase productivity of the workforce and consumer satisfaction and also optimizes the overall health and well-being of populations.
  2. OPTUMINSIGHT: Health Care Analytics, Information, and Technology
     OptumInsight provides software and information products, business process outsourcing, and advisory consulting services to participants in the health care industry. Physicians, the hospitals,  the government agencies, commercial health plans, life sciences firms and other organizations that comprise the health care system work with OptumInsight to reduce its costs, meet compliance mandates, improve its clinical performance and adapt to the changing health system landscape.
  3. OPTUMRX: Pharmacy Care Services
     OptumRx provides pharmacy care services to more than 65 million people and processes 1.3 billion adjusted retail, mail, and specialty drug prescriptions annually. OptumRx is devoted to helping individuals achieve optimal health while maximizing their cost savings by working closely with consumers to create customized solutions in order to enhance quality and safety, increase compliance and adherence, and reduce waste and frauds.

Subsidiaries:

UnitedHealth Group has many subsidiaries, few are mentioned below:

• OptumInsight
• UnitedHealthcare Community
• Oxford Health Plans
• Amil Participacoes SA
• PacifiCare Health Systems
• UnitedHealthcare StudentResources
• PatientsLikeMe
• Golden Rule Insurance Company
• National Medtrans Network
• hCentive

Mergers and Acquisitions:

Awards and Recognitions:

• UnitedHealth Group is the top-ranking company in the insurance and managed care sector on Fortune’s 2019 “World’s Most Admired Companies” list. This is the ninth straight year UnitedHealth Group ranked No. 1 overall in its sector.
• Fortune magazine ranked UnitedHealth Group No. 6 in the 2019 rankings of the 500 largest United States corporations based on 2018 revenues.
• Fortune magazine ranked UnitedHealth Group Number 14 on its 2019 Global 500, a list of the world's largest corporations based on 2018 revenues.
• UnitedHealth Group is listed in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index & Dow Jones North America Index for the year 2018 and ranked No. 1 in the Health Care and Providers & Services Sector. The company has been named to the indices annually since 1999.
• The Civic 50, a Points of Light initiative that highlights companies that enhance the quality of life in the communities where they do their businesses, ranked UnitedHealth Group one of America’s 50 most community-minded companies for the seventh time in the row in the year 2018.
• UnitedHealth Group is now a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a blue-chip group of 30 companies deemed industry leaders.

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