UnitedHealth Group News

The Help Group received $5,395,000 in capital that will support development of its newest campus serving Los Angeles-area children, adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorders.

Shares of U.S. health insurers lost initial gains on Wednesday as new proposed regulations that are part of efforts to overhaul the health system overshadowed momentum from the decline of a government-run insurance plan.

The reported death of the public option in the congressional healthcare overhaul breathed life into healthcare stocks on Wednesday.

A federal judge in New York has granted preliminary approval to a $350 million settlement agreement ending a class-action lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group brought by the American Medical Association and other plaintiffs involving UnitedHealth subsidiary Ingenix.

Mergers and acquisitions involving Minnesota companies that were announced in the past week.

The American Medical Association announced today that the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has granted preliminary approval of the previously disclosed $350 million settlement that would resolve a class-action lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group.

UnitedHealth Group Inc., giant insurer based in Minnetonka, received a judge's preliminary approval of a $350 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit.

When members of Congress decided in November to start investigating the recipients of seven-figure pay packages in the health insurance industry, they may not have expected to find themselves probing a top Obama administration official.

Health insurer Humana and CVS Caremark 's MinuteClinic are expanding their relationship, in what looks like a healthy deal for both sides.

UnitedHealth Group Inc., the top U.S. insurer by sales, said it expects to lose as many as 1 million members in its commercial health care plans next year, an improvement over 2009.

UnitedHealth Group Inc. on Tuesday told investors it has built a business model to adapt to changes in the health care system, even as it anticipates a difficult 2010.

Here's what Jim Cramer had to say about some of the stocks that callers offered up during the "Mad Money Lightning Round" Monday evening.

UnitedHealth Group Inc. said Monday that it will affirm its previous forecast for 2009 net earnings of about $3.15 a share during its annual investor conference in New York on Tuesday.

With all the volatility in the markets today, there's no shortage of market seers attempting to call a bottom.

Health-care reform isn't going to be cheap. Ensuring coverage of 94% of eligible Americans will cost a trillion dollars over the next decade, give or take a few billion depending on which chamber the bill is coming out of.

The nation's health-care system is broken, but congressional proposals to fix it do not focus enough on controlling spiraling costs, according to the president of one of the nation's largest health insurers.

Only nine states are less healthy than Kentucky, according to the 2009 edition of Americaa s Health Rankings, an annual report published by the United Health Foundation, the nonprofit arm of health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc.

Mergers and acquisitions involving Minnesota companies that were announced in the past week.

Cholesterol pills Vytorin from Merck & Co. and Lipitor from Pfizer Inc. worked no better than simvastatin, a cheaper generic medicine, at keeping patients out of the hospital for heart attacks or stroke, a study found.

UnitedHealth Group , the nation's largest insurer, recently rankled many when the Minnetonka-based company implored its 75,000 employees to send letters to senators and newspapers, with copies to the insurer's lobbying arm, opposing a public insurance option in the proposed federal health care legislation as well as payment cuts to Medicare ...