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05-21

Had cowen also short UNH?

UnitedHealth Shares Sink on HSBC Downgrade and Nursing Home Kickbacks

05-21

Had HSBC short UNH?

UnitedHealth Shares Sink on HSBC Downgrade and Nursing Home Kickbacks

05-15

$UnitedHealth(UNH)$ had announce officially on 14 May this is date news.

UnitedHealth Stock Drops 17% As the Company Is Under Criminal Probe for Possible Medicare Fraud

05-15

UNH had official announcement it is a bullshit n fate news.

UnitedHealth Group Is Under Criminal Investigation for Possible Medicare Fraud

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$UnitedHealth(UNH)$ this is a fate news.

UnitedHealth Stock Drops 17% As the Company Is Under Criminal Probe for Possible Medicare Fraud

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UnitedHealth Stock Drops 17% As the Company Is Under Criminal Probe for Possible Medicare Fraud

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HSBC’s forecast implies roughly 16% downside from Tuesday’s $321.58 close.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Shares are down more than 36% in 2025, as UnitedHealth contends with multiple headwinds which include the exit of its CEO earlier this month as well as a Department of Justice investigation into allegations of fraud.</p><p>″[The] new CEO has opportunity to start on a clean(er) slate, but we see risk to earnings growth along with policy overhang,” analyst Sidharth Sahoo wrote on Wednesday.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“While the bulls point to a 30% discount to historical P/E as an attractive entry point, we highlight three key reasons that could spoil the recovery journey,” added Sahoo, citing higher medical costs, political pressure on drug prices and lower overall profitability ahead, especially if there are cuts to Medicaid spending.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The stock trades at a forward price-earnings ratio of just 13, near its lowest of the last 10 years, according to HSBC.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth shares were down 5.3% in morning trading the HSBC call. The stock had garnered some interest recently from traders because of how deeply oversold the shares had become. The stock was up 10% since last Friday through Tuesday’s close.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/19fd136b025f543a695a9d7a7772947e\" tg-width=\"845\" tg-height=\"625\"/></p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">But HSBC thinks the fundamentals will deteriorate some more, further hitting the stock.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“Regaining investor confidence by reminding of the vertically integrated value-based care offering can help UNH recover a part of the premium,” wrote the analyst. “But any further downward earnings revision would weigh on ROE and multiples.”</p><p>Meanwhile, UnitedHealth sank also following a Guardian investigation that claimed the healthcare giant secretly paid nursing homes bonuses to reduce hospital transfers and helped it gain Medicare enrollees.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">According to the Guardian report, the payments were part of a cost-cutting strategy embedded in UnitedHealth’s nursing home initiative, which deployed company medical teams to facilities across the country. These teams reportedly worked to limit hospitalizations.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">In some cases, the Guardian reported that “the company’s insertion of itself into nursing home emergency protocols helped delay or avert transfers for patients who could have benefited from immediate hospital care.”</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">One man reportedly suffered permanent brain damage after a delayed transfer for a suspected stroke.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The report cites internal documents, court filings, and whistleblower complaints alleging that UnitedHealth’s financial incentives led to delayed care and inappropriate pressure on staff to reduce hospital visits. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“No one is truly investigating when a patient suffers harm,” a current UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH) nurse practitioner told the Guardian.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The Guardian said UnitedHealth denied the allegations, calling the claim that its staff blocked hospital transfers “verifiably false.” </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">A former nurse practitioner, Maxwell Ollivant, told the Guardian he filed a congressional declaration urging the federal government to hold the company accountable.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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HSBC’s forecast implies roughly 16% downside from Tuesday’s $321.58 close.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Shares are down more than 36% in 2025, as UnitedHealth contends with multiple headwinds which include the exit of its CEO earlier this month as well as a Department of Justice investigation into allegations of fraud.</p><p>″[The] new CEO has opportunity to start on a clean(er) slate, but we see risk to earnings growth along with policy overhang,” analyst Sidharth Sahoo wrote on Wednesday.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“While the bulls point to a 30% discount to historical P/E as an attractive entry point, we highlight three key reasons that could spoil the recovery journey,” added Sahoo, citing higher medical costs, political pressure on drug prices and lower overall profitability ahead, especially if there are cuts to Medicaid spending.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The stock trades at a forward price-earnings ratio of just 13, near its lowest of the last 10 years, according to HSBC.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth shares were down 5.3% in morning trading the HSBC call. The stock had garnered some interest recently from traders because of how deeply oversold the shares had become. The stock was up 10% since last Friday through Tuesday’s close.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/19fd136b025f543a695a9d7a7772947e\" tg-width=\"845\" tg-height=\"625\"/></p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">But HSBC thinks the fundamentals will deteriorate some more, further hitting the stock.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“Regaining investor confidence by reminding of the vertically integrated value-based care offering can help UNH recover a part of the premium,” wrote the analyst. “But any further downward earnings revision would weigh on ROE and multiples.”</p><p>Meanwhile, UnitedHealth sank also following a Guardian investigation that claimed the healthcare giant secretly paid nursing homes bonuses to reduce hospital transfers and helped it gain Medicare enrollees.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">According to the Guardian report, the payments were part of a cost-cutting strategy embedded in UnitedHealth’s nursing home initiative, which deployed company medical teams to facilities across the country. These teams reportedly worked to limit hospitalizations.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">In some cases, the Guardian reported that “the company’s insertion of itself into nursing home emergency protocols helped delay or avert transfers for patients who could have benefited from immediate hospital care.”</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">One man reportedly suffered permanent brain damage after a delayed transfer for a suspected stroke.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The report cites internal documents, court filings, and whistleblower complaints alleging that UnitedHealth’s financial incentives led to delayed care and inappropriate pressure on staff to reduce hospital visits. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“No one is truly investigating when a patient suffers harm,” a current UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH) nurse practitioner told the Guardian.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The Guardian said UnitedHealth denied the allegations, calling the claim that its staff blocked hospital transfers “verifiably false.” </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">A former nurse practitioner, Maxwell Ollivant, told the Guardian he filed a congressional declaration urging the federal government to hold the company accountable.</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"IE0004445239.USD":"JANUS HENDERSON US FORTY \"A2\" (USD) ACC","IE00B775H168.HKD":"JANUS HENDERSON BALANCED \"A5M\" (HKD) INC","IE00BN29S564.USD":"JANUS HENDERSON BALANCED \"A3\" (USD) INC","IE000M9KFDE8.USD":"NEUBERGER BERMAN US LARGE CAP VALUE \"A\" (USD) ACC","LU0965509010.AUD":"AB LOW VOLATILITY EQUITY PORTFOLIO \"AD\" (AUDHDG) INC","LU0345770308.USD":"NINETY ONE GSF GLOBAL STRATEGIC EQUITY \"A\" (USD) ACC","LU0354030438.USD":"富国美国大盘成长基金Cl A Acc","LU0496365809.HKD":"TEMPLETON GLOBAL INCOME \"A\" (HKD) INC (Q)","LU0345770993.USD":"NINETY ONE GSF GLOBAL STRATEGIC EQUITY \"A\" (USD) INC","SG9999017495.SGD":"UGDP UNITED GLOBAL QUALITY GROWTH \"B\" (SGD) ACC","LU1069347547.HKD":"AB SICAV I - 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HSBC’s forecast implies roughly 16% downside from Tuesday’s $321.58 close.Shares are down more than 36% in 2025, as UnitedHealth contends with multiple headwinds which include the exit of its CEO earlier this month as well as a Department of Justice investigation into allegations of fraud.″[The] new CEO has opportunity to start on a clean(er) slate, but we see risk to earnings growth along with policy overhang,” analyst Sidharth Sahoo wrote on Wednesday.“While the bulls point to a 30% discount to historical P/E as an attractive entry point, we highlight three key reasons that could spoil the recovery journey,” added Sahoo, citing higher medical costs, political pressure on drug prices and lower overall profitability ahead, especially if there are cuts to Medicaid spending.The stock trades at a forward price-earnings ratio of just 13, near its lowest of the last 10 years, according to HSBC.UnitedHealth shares were down 5.3% in morning trading the HSBC call. The stock had garnered some interest recently from traders because of how deeply oversold the shares had become. The stock was up 10% since last Friday through Tuesday’s close.But HSBC thinks the fundamentals will deteriorate some more, further hitting the stock.“Regaining investor confidence by reminding of the vertically integrated value-based care offering can help UNH recover a part of the premium,” wrote the analyst. “But any further downward earnings revision would weigh on ROE and multiples.”Meanwhile, UnitedHealth sank also following a Guardian investigation that claimed the healthcare giant secretly paid nursing homes bonuses to reduce hospital transfers and helped it gain Medicare enrollees.According to the Guardian report, the payments were part of a cost-cutting strategy embedded in UnitedHealth’s nursing home initiative, which deployed company medical teams to facilities across the country. These teams reportedly worked to limit hospitalizations.In some cases, the Guardian reported that “the company’s insertion of itself into nursing home emergency protocols helped delay or avert transfers for patients who could have benefited from immediate hospital care.”One man reportedly suffered permanent brain damage after a delayed transfer for a suspected stroke.The report cites internal documents, court filings, and whistleblower complaints alleging that UnitedHealth’s financial incentives led to delayed care and inappropriate pressure on staff to reduce hospital visits. “No one is truly investigating when a patient suffers harm,” a current UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH) nurse practitioner told the Guardian.The Guardian said UnitedHealth denied the allegations, calling the claim that its staff blocked hospital transfers “verifiably false.” A former nurse practitioner, Maxwell Ollivant, told the Guardian he filed a congressional declaration urging the federal government to hold the company accountable.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"UNH":0.9}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1553,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":437432875499616,"gmtCreate":1747825941896,"gmtModify":1747825945681,"author":{"id":"4204371674932382","authorId":"4204371674932382","name":"DanChang","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":12,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4204371674932382","authorIdStr":"4204371674932382"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Had HSBC short UNH?&nbsp;","listText":"Had HSBC short UNH?&nbsp;","text":"Had HSBC short UNH?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/437432875499616","repostId":"2537698675","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"2537698675","kind":"live","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Providing stock market headlines, business news, financials and earnings ","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Tiger Newspress","id":"1079075236","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1747834790,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2537698675?lang=en_US&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2025-05-21 21:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"UnitedHealth Shares Sink on HSBC Downgrade and Nursing Home Kickbacks","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2537698675","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"HSBC downgraded UnitedHealth shares, saying the recent rout has still not made the shares cheap enou","content":"<html><head></head><body><p style=\"text-align: start;\">HSBC downgraded UnitedHealth shares, saying the recent rout has still not made the shares cheap enough to buy given the risks to earnings head.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The firm slashed UnitedHealth’s rating reduce from hold on Wednesday, and trimmed its price target to $270 per share from $490. HSBC’s forecast implies roughly 16% downside from Tuesday’s $321.58 close.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Shares are down more than 36% in 2025, as UnitedHealth contends with multiple headwinds which include the exit of its CEO earlier this month as well as a Department of Justice investigation into allegations of fraud.</p><p>″[The] new CEO has opportunity to start on a clean(er) slate, but we see risk to earnings growth along with policy overhang,” analyst Sidharth Sahoo wrote on Wednesday.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“While the bulls point to a 30% discount to historical P/E as an attractive entry point, we highlight three key reasons that could spoil the recovery journey,” added Sahoo, citing higher medical costs, political pressure on drug prices and lower overall profitability ahead, especially if there are cuts to Medicaid spending.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The stock trades at a forward price-earnings ratio of just 13, near its lowest of the last 10 years, according to HSBC.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth shares were down 5.3% in morning trading the HSBC call. The stock had garnered some interest recently from traders because of how deeply oversold the shares had become. The stock was up 10% since last Friday through Tuesday’s close.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/19fd136b025f543a695a9d7a7772947e\" tg-width=\"845\" tg-height=\"625\"/></p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">But HSBC thinks the fundamentals will deteriorate some more, further hitting the stock.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“Regaining investor confidence by reminding of the vertically integrated value-based care offering can help UNH recover a part of the premium,” wrote the analyst. “But any further downward earnings revision would weigh on ROE and multiples.”</p><p>Meanwhile, UnitedHealth sank also following a Guardian investigation that claimed the healthcare giant secretly paid nursing homes bonuses to reduce hospital transfers and helped it gain Medicare enrollees.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">According to the Guardian report, the payments were part of a cost-cutting strategy embedded in UnitedHealth’s nursing home initiative, which deployed company medical teams to facilities across the country. These teams reportedly worked to limit hospitalizations.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">In some cases, the Guardian reported that “the company’s insertion of itself into nursing home emergency protocols helped delay or avert transfers for patients who could have benefited from immediate hospital care.”</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">One man reportedly suffered permanent brain damage after a delayed transfer for a suspected stroke.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The report cites internal documents, court filings, and whistleblower complaints alleging that UnitedHealth’s financial incentives led to delayed care and inappropriate pressure on staff to reduce hospital visits. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“No one is truly investigating when a patient suffers harm,” a current UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH) nurse practitioner told the Guardian.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The Guardian said UnitedHealth denied the allegations, calling the claim that its staff blocked hospital transfers “verifiably false.” </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">A former nurse practitioner, Maxwell Ollivant, told the Guardian he filed a congressional declaration urging the federal government to hold the company accountable.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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HSBC’s forecast implies roughly 16% downside from Tuesday’s $321.58 close.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Shares are down more than 36% in 2025, as UnitedHealth contends with multiple headwinds which include the exit of its CEO earlier this month as well as a Department of Justice investigation into allegations of fraud.</p><p>″[The] new CEO has opportunity to start on a clean(er) slate, but we see risk to earnings growth along with policy overhang,” analyst Sidharth Sahoo wrote on Wednesday.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“While the bulls point to a 30% discount to historical P/E as an attractive entry point, we highlight three key reasons that could spoil the recovery journey,” added Sahoo, citing higher medical costs, political pressure on drug prices and lower overall profitability ahead, especially if there are cuts to Medicaid spending.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The stock trades at a forward price-earnings ratio of just 13, near its lowest of the last 10 years, according to HSBC.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth shares were down 5.3% in morning trading the HSBC call. The stock had garnered some interest recently from traders because of how deeply oversold the shares had become. The stock was up 10% since last Friday through Tuesday’s close.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/19fd136b025f543a695a9d7a7772947e\" tg-width=\"845\" tg-height=\"625\"/></p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">But HSBC thinks the fundamentals will deteriorate some more, further hitting the stock.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“Regaining investor confidence by reminding of the vertically integrated value-based care offering can help UNH recover a part of the premium,” wrote the analyst. “But any further downward earnings revision would weigh on ROE and multiples.”</p><p>Meanwhile, UnitedHealth sank also following a Guardian investigation that claimed the healthcare giant secretly paid nursing homes bonuses to reduce hospital transfers and helped it gain Medicare enrollees.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">According to the Guardian report, the payments were part of a cost-cutting strategy embedded in UnitedHealth’s nursing home initiative, which deployed company medical teams to facilities across the country. These teams reportedly worked to limit hospitalizations.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">In some cases, the Guardian reported that “the company’s insertion of itself into nursing home emergency protocols helped delay or avert transfers for patients who could have benefited from immediate hospital care.”</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">One man reportedly suffered permanent brain damage after a delayed transfer for a suspected stroke.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The report cites internal documents, court filings, and whistleblower complaints alleging that UnitedHealth’s financial incentives led to delayed care and inappropriate pressure on staff to reduce hospital visits. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“No one is truly investigating when a patient suffers harm,” a current UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH) nurse practitioner told the Guardian.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The Guardian said UnitedHealth denied the allegations, calling the claim that its staff blocked hospital transfers “verifiably false.” </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">A former nurse practitioner, Maxwell Ollivant, told the Guardian he filed a congressional declaration urging the federal government to hold the company accountable.</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"IE0004445239.USD":"JANUS HENDERSON US FORTY \"A2\" (USD) ACC","IE00B775H168.HKD":"JANUS HENDERSON BALANCED \"A5M\" (HKD) INC","IE00BN29S564.USD":"JANUS HENDERSON BALANCED \"A3\" (USD) INC","IE000M9KFDE8.USD":"NEUBERGER BERMAN US LARGE CAP VALUE \"A\" (USD) ACC","LU0965509010.AUD":"AB LOW VOLATILITY EQUITY PORTFOLIO \"AD\" (AUDHDG) INC","LU0345770308.USD":"NINETY ONE GSF GLOBAL STRATEGIC EQUITY \"A\" (USD) ACC","LU0354030438.USD":"富国美国大盘成长基金Cl A Acc","LU0496365809.HKD":"TEMPLETON GLOBAL INCOME \"A\" (HKD) INC (Q)","LU0345770993.USD":"NINETY ONE GSF GLOBAL STRATEGIC EQUITY \"A\" (USD) INC","SG9999017495.SGD":"UGDP UNITED GLOBAL QUALITY GROWTH \"B\" (SGD) ACC","LU1069347547.HKD":"AB SICAV I - 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HSBC’s forecast implies roughly 16% downside from Tuesday’s $321.58 close.Shares are down more than 36% in 2025, as UnitedHealth contends with multiple headwinds which include the exit of its CEO earlier this month as well as a Department of Justice investigation into allegations of fraud.″[The] new CEO has opportunity to start on a clean(er) slate, but we see risk to earnings growth along with policy overhang,” analyst Sidharth Sahoo wrote on Wednesday.“While the bulls point to a 30% discount to historical P/E as an attractive entry point, we highlight three key reasons that could spoil the recovery journey,” added Sahoo, citing higher medical costs, political pressure on drug prices and lower overall profitability ahead, especially if there are cuts to Medicaid spending.The stock trades at a forward price-earnings ratio of just 13, near its lowest of the last 10 years, according to HSBC.UnitedHealth shares were down 5.3% in morning trading the HSBC call. The stock had garnered some interest recently from traders because of how deeply oversold the shares had become. The stock was up 10% since last Friday through Tuesday’s close.But HSBC thinks the fundamentals will deteriorate some more, further hitting the stock.“Regaining investor confidence by reminding of the vertically integrated value-based care offering can help UNH recover a part of the premium,” wrote the analyst. “But any further downward earnings revision would weigh on ROE and multiples.”Meanwhile, UnitedHealth sank also following a Guardian investigation that claimed the healthcare giant secretly paid nursing homes bonuses to reduce hospital transfers and helped it gain Medicare enrollees.According to the Guardian report, the payments were part of a cost-cutting strategy embedded in UnitedHealth’s nursing home initiative, which deployed company medical teams to facilities across the country. These teams reportedly worked to limit hospitalizations.In some cases, the Guardian reported that “the company’s insertion of itself into nursing home emergency protocols helped delay or avert transfers for patients who could have benefited from immediate hospital care.”One man reportedly suffered permanent brain damage after a delayed transfer for a suspected stroke.The report cites internal documents, court filings, and whistleblower complaints alleging that UnitedHealth’s financial incentives led to delayed care and inappropriate pressure on staff to reduce hospital visits. “No one is truly investigating when a patient suffers harm,” a current UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH) nurse practitioner told the Guardian.The Guardian said UnitedHealth denied the allegations, calling the claim that its staff blocked hospital transfers “verifiably false.” A former nurse practitioner, Maxwell Ollivant, told the Guardian he filed a congressional declaration urging the federal government to hold the company accountable.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"UNH":0.9}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1380,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":435397716018024,"gmtCreate":1747316517959,"gmtModify":1747316813955,"author":{"id":"4204371674932382","authorId":"4204371674932382","name":"DanChang","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":12,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4204371674932382","authorIdStr":"4204371674932382"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"<a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/UNH\">$UnitedHealth(UNH)$&nbsp;</a>had announce officially on 14 May this is date news.&nbsp;","listText":"<a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/UNH\">$UnitedHealth(UNH)$&nbsp;</a>had announce officially on 14 May this is date news.&nbsp;","text":"$UnitedHealth(UNH)$ had announce officially on 14 May this is date news.","images":[{"img":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/2b73d1c01721f74687e89f1417549f9d"}],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/435397716018024","repostId":"1132247955","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1132247955","kind":"news","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Providing stock market headlines, business news, financials and earnings ","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Tiger Newspress","id":"1079075236","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1747316261,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1132247955?lang=en_US&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2025-05-15 21:37","market":"us","language":"en","title":"UnitedHealth Stock Drops 17% As the Company Is Under Criminal Probe for Possible Medicare Fraud","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1132247955","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"The U.S. Department of Justice is carrying out a criminal investigation into  $UnitedHealth(UNH)$  for possible Medicare fraud, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.UnitedHealth said it had n","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>The U.S. Department of Justice is carrying out a criminal investigation into <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/UNH\">UnitedHealth</a> for possible Medicare fraud, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.</p><p>UnitedHealth said it had not been notified by the DOJ about the &#34;supposed criminal investigation reported,&#34; and the company stood by &#34;the integrity of our Medicare Advantage program.&#34; The stock fell 17% in Thursday trading.</p><p></p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/4345e2677a3fc5fed51e0082f416ed57\" tg-width=\"416\" tg-height=\"400\"/></p><p>The health insurer has been under pressure for months. On Tuesday, UnitedHealth Group&#39;s CEO, Andrew Witty, stepped down unexpectedly, and the company simultaneously suspended its 2025 financial forecast due to rising medical costs. The announcement sent shares plunging nearly 18% to a four-year low.</p><p>Stephen Hemsley, who led the company for more than a decade until 2017, is taking back the reins following setbacks including the December murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of its insurance unit, which catapulted UnitedHealth into the public consciousness.</p><p>The DOJ&#39;s healthcare-fraud unit is overseeing the criminal investigation, which focuses on the company&#39;s Medicare Advantage business practices, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.</p><p>While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, it has been an active probe since at least last summer, the newspaper said.</p><p>A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment to the Journal about the fresh criminal probe. The department did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comments.</p><p>Last week, UnitedHealth said in a regular filing that it had been &#34;involved or is currently involved in various governmental investigations, audits and reviews,&#34; without disclosing further details.</p><p>In February, the Journal reported a civil fraud investigation into UnitedHealth&#39;s Medicare practices. The company had then said that it was unaware of any new probe.</p><p>In the same month, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley launched an inquiry into UnitedHealth&#39;s Medicare billing practices, requesting detailed records of their compliance program and other related documents. UnitedHealth shares are down about 40% for the year.</p><p>The new investigation follows broader scrutiny into the Medicare Advantage program.</p><p>The DOJ earlier this month filed a lawsuit accusing three of the largest U.S. health insurers of paying hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks to brokers in exchange for steering patients into the insurers&#39; Medicare Advantage plans.</p><p>Nearly half of the 65 million people covered by Medicare, the U.S. program for people aged 65 and older or with disabilities, are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans run by private insurers.</p><p>The insurers are paid a set rate for each patient, but can be paid more if patients have multiple health conditions.</p><p>Standard Medicare coverage is managed by the government.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>UnitedHealth Stock Drops 17% As the Company Is Under Criminal Probe for Possible Medicare Fraud</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nUnitedHealth Stock Drops 17% As the Company Is Under Criminal Probe for Possible Medicare Fraud\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1079075236\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Tiger Newspress </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2025-05-15 21:37</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><head></head><body><p>The U.S. Department of Justice is carrying out a criminal investigation into <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/UNH\">UnitedHealth</a> for possible Medicare fraud, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.</p><p>UnitedHealth said it had not been notified by the DOJ about the &#34;supposed criminal investigation reported,&#34; and the company stood by &#34;the integrity of our Medicare Advantage program.&#34; The stock fell 17% in Thursday trading.</p><p></p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/4345e2677a3fc5fed51e0082f416ed57\" tg-width=\"416\" tg-height=\"400\"/></p><p>The health insurer has been under pressure for months. On Tuesday, UnitedHealth Group&#39;s CEO, Andrew Witty, stepped down unexpectedly, and the company simultaneously suspended its 2025 financial forecast due to rising medical costs. The announcement sent shares plunging nearly 18% to a four-year low.</p><p>Stephen Hemsley, who led the company for more than a decade until 2017, is taking back the reins following setbacks including the December murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of its insurance unit, which catapulted UnitedHealth into the public consciousness.</p><p>The DOJ&#39;s healthcare-fraud unit is overseeing the criminal investigation, which focuses on the company&#39;s Medicare Advantage business practices, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.</p><p>While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, it has been an active probe since at least last summer, the newspaper said.</p><p>A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment to the Journal about the fresh criminal probe. The department did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comments.</p><p>Last week, UnitedHealth said in a regular filing that it had been &#34;involved or is currently involved in various governmental investigations, audits and reviews,&#34; without disclosing further details.</p><p>In February, the Journal reported a civil fraud investigation into UnitedHealth&#39;s Medicare practices. The company had then said that it was unaware of any new probe.</p><p>In the same month, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley launched an inquiry into UnitedHealth&#39;s Medicare billing practices, requesting detailed records of their compliance program and other related documents. UnitedHealth shares are down about 40% for the year.</p><p>The new investigation follows broader scrutiny into the Medicare Advantage program.</p><p>The DOJ earlier this month filed a lawsuit accusing three of the largest U.S. health insurers of paying hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks to brokers in exchange for steering patients into the insurers&#39; Medicare Advantage plans.</p><p>Nearly half of the 65 million people covered by Medicare, the U.S. program for people aged 65 and older or with disabilities, are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans run by private insurers.</p><p>The insurers are paid a set rate for each patient, but can be paid more if patients have multiple health conditions.</p><p>Standard Medicare coverage is managed by the government.</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"UNH":"联合健康"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1132247955","content_text":"The U.S. Department of Justice is carrying out a criminal investigation into UnitedHealth for possible Medicare fraud, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.UnitedHealth said it had not been notified by the DOJ about the \"supposed criminal investigation reported,\" and the company stood by \"the integrity of our Medicare Advantage program.\" The stock fell 17% in Thursday trading.The health insurer has been under pressure for months. On Tuesday, UnitedHealth Group's CEO, Andrew Witty, stepped down unexpectedly, and the company simultaneously suspended its 2025 financial forecast due to rising medical costs. The announcement sent shares plunging nearly 18% to a four-year low.Stephen Hemsley, who led the company for more than a decade until 2017, is taking back the reins following setbacks including the December murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of its insurance unit, which catapulted UnitedHealth into the public consciousness.The DOJ's healthcare-fraud unit is overseeing the criminal investigation, which focuses on the company's Medicare Advantage business practices, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, it has been an active probe since at least last summer, the newspaper said.A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment to the Journal about the fresh criminal probe. The department did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comments.Last week, UnitedHealth said in a regular filing that it had been \"involved or is currently involved in various governmental investigations, audits and reviews,\" without disclosing further details.In February, the Journal reported a civil fraud investigation into UnitedHealth's Medicare practices. The company had then said that it was unaware of any new probe.In the same month, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley launched an inquiry into UnitedHealth's Medicare billing practices, requesting detailed records of their compliance program and other related documents. UnitedHealth shares are down about 40% for the year.The new investigation follows broader scrutiny into the Medicare Advantage program.The DOJ earlier this month filed a lawsuit accusing three of the largest U.S. health insurers of paying hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks to brokers in exchange for steering patients into the insurers' Medicare Advantage plans.Nearly half of the 65 million people covered by Medicare, the U.S. program for people aged 65 and older or with disabilities, are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans run by private insurers.The insurers are paid a set rate for each patient, but can be paid more if patients have multiple health conditions.Standard Medicare coverage is managed by the government.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"UNH":1.1}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1660,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":1,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":435398593708832,"gmtCreate":1747316296511,"gmtModify":1747316815416,"author":{"id":"4204371674932382","authorId":"4204371674932382","name":"DanChang","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":12,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4204371674932382","authorIdStr":"4204371674932382"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"UNH had official announcement it is a bullshit n fate news.","listText":"UNH had official announcement it is a bullshit n fate news.","text":"UNH had official announcement it is a bullshit n fate news.","images":[{"img":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/2b73d1c01721f74687e89f1417549f9d"}],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/435398593708832","repostId":"1165743932","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1165743932","kind":"news","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Dow Jones publishes the world’s most trusted business news and financial information in a variety of media.","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Dow Jones","id":"1012688067","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99"},"pubTimestamp":1747265710,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1165743932?lang=en_US&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2025-05-15 07:35","market":"us","language":"en","title":"UnitedHealth Group Is Under Criminal Investigation for Possible Medicare Fraud","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1165743932","media":"Dow Jones","summary":"The Justice Department is investigating UnitedHealth Group for possible criminal Medicare fraud, people familiar with the matter said.UnitedHealth shares slumped 7% on the news.The healthcare-fraud un","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>The Justice Department is investigating UnitedHealth Group for possible criminal Medicare fraud, people familiar with the matter said.</p><p>UnitedHealth shares slumped 7% on the news.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/c4868f90473e85a368febb5d2da12b02\" tg-width=\"795\" tg-height=\"846\"/></p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The healthcare-fraud unit of the Justice Department’s criminal division is overseeing the investigation, the people said, and it has been an active probe since at least last summer. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, the people said the federal investigation is focusing on the company’s Medicare Advantage business practices.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth didn’t respond to written questions Wednesday. A DOJ spokesman declined to comment.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The probe adds to a list of government inquiries into the company, including investigations of potential antitrust violations and a civil investigation of its Medicare billing practices, including at its doctors offices.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth is seeking to recover from a meltdown of its stock over its financial performance and the sudden replacement this week of its chief executive officer, Andrew Witty, with its chairman and former CEO Stephen Hemsley. UnitedHealth’s stock has declined by almost 50% over the past month.</p><p>An error occurred. Please try again later.</p><p>After the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City, physicians offer a sober look at frustrations with the healthcare system in the U.S. Photo illustration: WSJ</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Last year, the company faced a hack of a technology unit that disrupted payments to many U.S. health providers for months, and the killing of its top insurance-arm executive.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">All of this comes as the Trump administration and Congress look to cut federal health spending, a key source of UnitedHealth’s success. In March, U.S. senators grilled Mehmet Oz, now the Medicare and Medicaid agency head, during his confirmation hearing on the findings of a Wall Street Journal investigation of practices of Medicare Advantage insurers such as UnitedHealth. Oz pledged a crackdown.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The criminal investigation could pose an additional challenge to UnitedHealth in the midst of a deep deficit of trust among shareholders, regulators and customers.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The Justice Department’s criminal healthcare fraud unit focuses on crimes such as kickbacks that trigger higher Medicare and Medicare payments.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The fraud unit has offices in more than a dozen cities, but is managed from DOJ’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Prosecutors are working on the criminal investigation of UnitedHealth from the fraud unit’s office in New York, the people familiar with the investigation said.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/5fcfc3bd57fa78eac6bed93af66b2ee7\" alt=\"Andrew Witty, then CEO of UnitedHealth, testified in May 2024 before a Senate committee looking into hacking.\" title=\"Andrew Witty, then CEO of UnitedHealth, testified in May 2024 before a Senate committee looking into hacking.\" tg-width=\"639\" tg-height=\"639\"/><span>Andrew Witty, then CEO of UnitedHealth, testified in May 2024 before a Senate committee looking into hacking.</span></p><p>Andrew Witty, then CEO of UnitedHealth, testified in May 2024 before a Senate committee looking into hacking. Photo: Kent Nishimura/Getty Images</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">For years, the unit focused on busting doctors, laboratories and other service providers who overbill government health programs and insurers.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">But the unit has turned its focus to insurers in the Medicare Advantage system, where they now oversee taxpayer-funded benefits for more than half the seniors and disabled people in the broader Medicare program, people familiar with the matter said. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Medicare Advantage insurers are paid extra for covering sicker patients, creating an incentive to document diagnoses for patients they cover. In some cases, the Journal’s reporting has shown, questionable diagnoses by UnitedHealth added billions to taxpayers’ costs.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The company disputed the Journal’s findings, saying that its analysis was “inaccurate and biased,” and that Medicare Advantage “provides better health outcomes and more affordable healthcare for millions of seniors” than traditional Medicare.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth’s latest annual securities filing says the company “has been involved or is currently involved in various governmental investigations, audits and reviews,” and flags involved agencies including the Justice Department. It doesn’t specifically mention the criminal, civil and antitrust probes the Journal has reported.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth dismissed a Wall Street Journal report in February revealing the civil Medicare fraud investigation into the company as “misinformation” and said that it wasn’t aware of a “new” probe.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">A March 11 email, revealed in a lawsuit by a UnitedHealth investor, shows a company lawyer acknowledging that “the government has asked us some questions regarding Optum’s coding practices,” referring to the Medicare billing practices of UnitedHealth’s healthcare services arm, which includes its doctor groups. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The email, cautioning a former UnitedHealth employee on the possibility of being contacted by the government, described the investigation as “in the early stages.”</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">A UnitedHealth spokesman said last week that the company stood by its February statement and declined to comment on the email.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The DOJ has struggled to make its case in fraud claims against UnitedHealth in the past. In March, a court-appointed special master recommended that a judge effectively dismiss a whistleblower case against UnitedHealth after concluding the government hadn’t presented evidence that patient diagnoses submitted for payment were inaccurate. The judge in the case hasn’t yet ruled on the recommendation.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">That civil case, brought by a former UnitedHealth employee turned whistleblower in 2011 and joined by the government in 2017, concerned claims that UnitedHealth submitted $2 billion worth of diagnoses recorded by doctors that its own reviewers determined weren’t supported by patients’ medical charts. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The DOJ asked the judge to reject the special master’s recommendation. UnitedHealth said the finding showed “there was no evidence to support the DOJ’s claims we were overpaid or that we did anything wrong.” </p><p><br/></p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>UnitedHealth Group Is Under Criminal Investigation for Possible Medicare Fraud</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nUnitedHealth Group Is Under Criminal Investigation for Possible Medicare Fraud\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1012688067\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Dow Jones </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2025-05-15 07:35</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><head></head><body><p>The Justice Department is investigating UnitedHealth Group for possible criminal Medicare fraud, people familiar with the matter said.</p><p>UnitedHealth shares slumped 7% on the news.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/c4868f90473e85a368febb5d2da12b02\" tg-width=\"795\" tg-height=\"846\"/></p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The healthcare-fraud unit of the Justice Department’s criminal division is overseeing the investigation, the people said, and it has been an active probe since at least last summer. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, the people said the federal investigation is focusing on the company’s Medicare Advantage business practices.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth didn’t respond to written questions Wednesday. A DOJ spokesman declined to comment.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The probe adds to a list of government inquiries into the company, including investigations of potential antitrust violations and a civil investigation of its Medicare billing practices, including at its doctors offices.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth is seeking to recover from a meltdown of its stock over its financial performance and the sudden replacement this week of its chief executive officer, Andrew Witty, with its chairman and former CEO Stephen Hemsley. UnitedHealth’s stock has declined by almost 50% over the past month.</p><p>An error occurred. Please try again later.</p><p>After the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City, physicians offer a sober look at frustrations with the healthcare system in the U.S. Photo illustration: WSJ</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Last year, the company faced a hack of a technology unit that disrupted payments to many U.S. health providers for months, and the killing of its top insurance-arm executive.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">All of this comes as the Trump administration and Congress look to cut federal health spending, a key source of UnitedHealth’s success. In March, U.S. senators grilled Mehmet Oz, now the Medicare and Medicaid agency head, during his confirmation hearing on the findings of a Wall Street Journal investigation of practices of Medicare Advantage insurers such as UnitedHealth. Oz pledged a crackdown.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The criminal investigation could pose an additional challenge to UnitedHealth in the midst of a deep deficit of trust among shareholders, regulators and customers.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The Justice Department’s criminal healthcare fraud unit focuses on crimes such as kickbacks that trigger higher Medicare and Medicare payments.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The fraud unit has offices in more than a dozen cities, but is managed from DOJ’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Prosecutors are working on the criminal investigation of UnitedHealth from the fraud unit’s office in New York, the people familiar with the investigation said.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/5fcfc3bd57fa78eac6bed93af66b2ee7\" alt=\"Andrew Witty, then CEO of UnitedHealth, testified in May 2024 before a Senate committee looking into hacking.\" title=\"Andrew Witty, then CEO of UnitedHealth, testified in May 2024 before a Senate committee looking into hacking.\" tg-width=\"639\" tg-height=\"639\"/><span>Andrew Witty, then CEO of UnitedHealth, testified in May 2024 before a Senate committee looking into hacking.</span></p><p>Andrew Witty, then CEO of UnitedHealth, testified in May 2024 before a Senate committee looking into hacking. Photo: Kent Nishimura/Getty Images</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">For years, the unit focused on busting doctors, laboratories and other service providers who overbill government health programs and insurers.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">But the unit has turned its focus to insurers in the Medicare Advantage system, where they now oversee taxpayer-funded benefits for more than half the seniors and disabled people in the broader Medicare program, people familiar with the matter said. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Medicare Advantage insurers are paid extra for covering sicker patients, creating an incentive to document diagnoses for patients they cover. In some cases, the Journal’s reporting has shown, questionable diagnoses by UnitedHealth added billions to taxpayers’ costs.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The company disputed the Journal’s findings, saying that its analysis was “inaccurate and biased,” and that Medicare Advantage “provides better health outcomes and more affordable healthcare for millions of seniors” than traditional Medicare.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth’s latest annual securities filing says the company “has been involved or is currently involved in various governmental investigations, audits and reviews,” and flags involved agencies including the Justice Department. It doesn’t specifically mention the criminal, civil and antitrust probes the Journal has reported.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth dismissed a Wall Street Journal report in February revealing the civil Medicare fraud investigation into the company as “misinformation” and said that it wasn’t aware of a “new” probe.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">A March 11 email, revealed in a lawsuit by a UnitedHealth investor, shows a company lawyer acknowledging that “the government has asked us some questions regarding Optum’s coding practices,” referring to the Medicare billing practices of UnitedHealth’s healthcare services arm, which includes its doctor groups. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The email, cautioning a former UnitedHealth employee on the possibility of being contacted by the government, described the investigation as “in the early stages.”</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">A UnitedHealth spokesman said last week that the company stood by its February statement and declined to comment on the email.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The DOJ has struggled to make its case in fraud claims against UnitedHealth in the past. In March, a court-appointed special master recommended that a judge effectively dismiss a whistleblower case against UnitedHealth after concluding the government hadn’t presented evidence that patient diagnoses submitted for payment were inaccurate. The judge in the case hasn’t yet ruled on the recommendation.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">That civil case, brought by a former UnitedHealth employee turned whistleblower in 2011 and joined by the government in 2017, concerned claims that UnitedHealth submitted $2 billion worth of diagnoses recorded by doctors that its own reviewers determined weren’t supported by patients’ medical charts. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The DOJ asked the judge to reject the special master’s recommendation. UnitedHealth said the finding showed “there was no evidence to support the DOJ’s claims we were overpaid or that we did anything wrong.” </p><p><br/></p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"UNH":"联合健康"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1165743932","content_text":"The Justice Department is investigating UnitedHealth Group for possible criminal Medicare fraud, people familiar with the matter said.UnitedHealth shares slumped 7% on the news.The healthcare-fraud unit of the Justice Department’s criminal division is overseeing the investigation, the people said, and it has been an active probe since at least last summer. While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, the people said the federal investigation is focusing on the company’s Medicare Advantage business practices.UnitedHealth didn’t respond to written questions Wednesday. A DOJ spokesman declined to comment.The probe adds to a list of government inquiries into the company, including investigations of potential antitrust violations and a civil investigation of its Medicare billing practices, including at its doctors offices.UnitedHealth is seeking to recover from a meltdown of its stock over its financial performance and the sudden replacement this week of its chief executive officer, Andrew Witty, with its chairman and former CEO Stephen Hemsley. UnitedHealth’s stock has declined by almost 50% over the past month.An error occurred. Please try again later.After the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City, physicians offer a sober look at frustrations with the healthcare system in the U.S. Photo illustration: WSJLast year, the company faced a hack of a technology unit that disrupted payments to many U.S. health providers for months, and the killing of its top insurance-arm executive.All of this comes as the Trump administration and Congress look to cut federal health spending, a key source of UnitedHealth’s success. In March, U.S. senators grilled Mehmet Oz, now the Medicare and Medicaid agency head, during his confirmation hearing on the findings of a Wall Street Journal investigation of practices of Medicare Advantage insurers such as UnitedHealth. Oz pledged a crackdown.The criminal investigation could pose an additional challenge to UnitedHealth in the midst of a deep deficit of trust among shareholders, regulators and customers.The Justice Department’s criminal healthcare fraud unit focuses on crimes such as kickbacks that trigger higher Medicare and Medicare payments.The fraud unit has offices in more than a dozen cities, but is managed from DOJ’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Prosecutors are working on the criminal investigation of UnitedHealth from the fraud unit’s office in New York, the people familiar with the investigation said.Andrew Witty, then CEO of UnitedHealth, testified in May 2024 before a Senate committee looking into hacking.Andrew Witty, then CEO of UnitedHealth, testified in May 2024 before a Senate committee looking into hacking. Photo: Kent Nishimura/Getty ImagesFor years, the unit focused on busting doctors, laboratories and other service providers who overbill government health programs and insurers.But the unit has turned its focus to insurers in the Medicare Advantage system, where they now oversee taxpayer-funded benefits for more than half the seniors and disabled people in the broader Medicare program, people familiar with the matter said. Medicare Advantage insurers are paid extra for covering sicker patients, creating an incentive to document diagnoses for patients they cover. In some cases, the Journal’s reporting has shown, questionable diagnoses by UnitedHealth added billions to taxpayers’ costs.The company disputed the Journal’s findings, saying that its analysis was “inaccurate and biased,” and that Medicare Advantage “provides better health outcomes and more affordable healthcare for millions of seniors” than traditional Medicare.UnitedHealth’s latest annual securities filing says the company “has been involved or is currently involved in various governmental investigations, audits and reviews,” and flags involved agencies including the Justice Department. It doesn’t specifically mention the criminal, civil and antitrust probes the Journal has reported.UnitedHealth dismissed a Wall Street Journal report in February revealing the civil Medicare fraud investigation into the company as “misinformation” and said that it wasn’t aware of a “new” probe.A March 11 email, revealed in a lawsuit by a UnitedHealth investor, shows a company lawyer acknowledging that “the government has asked us some questions regarding Optum’s coding practices,” referring to the Medicare billing practices of UnitedHealth’s healthcare services arm, which includes its doctor groups. The email, cautioning a former UnitedHealth employee on the possibility of being contacted by the government, described the investigation as “in the early stages.”A UnitedHealth spokesman said last week that the company stood by its February statement and declined to comment on the email.The DOJ has struggled to make its case in fraud claims against UnitedHealth in the past. In March, a court-appointed special master recommended that a judge effectively dismiss a whistleblower case against UnitedHealth after concluding the government hadn’t presented evidence that patient diagnoses submitted for payment were inaccurate. The judge in the case hasn’t yet ruled on the recommendation.That civil case, brought by a former UnitedHealth employee turned whistleblower in 2011 and joined by the government in 2017, concerned claims that UnitedHealth submitted $2 billion worth of diagnoses recorded by doctors that its own reviewers determined weren’t supported by patients’ medical charts. The DOJ asked the judge to reject the special master’s recommendation. UnitedHealth said the finding showed “there was no evidence to support the DOJ’s claims we were overpaid or that we did anything wrong.”","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"UNH":1.1}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1303,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":1,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":435396440522752,"gmtCreate":1747315882467,"gmtModify":1747316812441,"author":{"id":"4204371674932382","authorId":"4204371674932382","name":"DanChang","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":12,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4204371674932382","authorIdStr":"4204371674932382"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"<a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/UNH\">$UnitedHealth(UNH)$&nbsp;</a> this is a fate news.","listText":"<a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/UNH\">$UnitedHealth(UNH)$&nbsp;</a> this is a fate news.","text":"$UnitedHealth(UNH)$ this is a fate news.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/435396440522752","repostId":"1132247955","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1132247955","kind":"news","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Providing stock market headlines, business news, financials and earnings ","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Tiger Newspress","id":"1079075236","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1747316261,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1132247955?lang=en_US&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2025-05-15 21:37","market":"us","language":"en","title":"UnitedHealth Stock Drops 17% As the Company Is Under Criminal Probe for Possible Medicare Fraud","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1132247955","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"The U.S. Department of Justice is carrying out a criminal investigation into  $UnitedHealth(UNH)$  for possible Medicare fraud, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.UnitedHealth said it had n","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>The U.S. Department of Justice is carrying out a criminal investigation into <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/UNH\">UnitedHealth</a> for possible Medicare fraud, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.</p><p>UnitedHealth said it had not been notified by the DOJ about the &#34;supposed criminal investigation reported,&#34; and the company stood by &#34;the integrity of our Medicare Advantage program.&#34; The stock fell 17% in Thursday trading.</p><p></p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/4345e2677a3fc5fed51e0082f416ed57\" tg-width=\"416\" tg-height=\"400\"/></p><p>The health insurer has been under pressure for months. On Tuesday, UnitedHealth Group&#39;s CEO, Andrew Witty, stepped down unexpectedly, and the company simultaneously suspended its 2025 financial forecast due to rising medical costs. The announcement sent shares plunging nearly 18% to a four-year low.</p><p>Stephen Hemsley, who led the company for more than a decade until 2017, is taking back the reins following setbacks including the December murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of its insurance unit, which catapulted UnitedHealth into the public consciousness.</p><p>The DOJ&#39;s healthcare-fraud unit is overseeing the criminal investigation, which focuses on the company&#39;s Medicare Advantage business practices, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.</p><p>While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, it has been an active probe since at least last summer, the newspaper said.</p><p>A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment to the Journal about the fresh criminal probe. The department did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comments.</p><p>Last week, UnitedHealth said in a regular filing that it had been &#34;involved or is currently involved in various governmental investigations, audits and reviews,&#34; without disclosing further details.</p><p>In February, the Journal reported a civil fraud investigation into UnitedHealth&#39;s Medicare practices. The company had then said that it was unaware of any new probe.</p><p>In the same month, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley launched an inquiry into UnitedHealth&#39;s Medicare billing practices, requesting detailed records of their compliance program and other related documents. UnitedHealth shares are down about 40% for the year.</p><p>The new investigation follows broader scrutiny into the Medicare Advantage program.</p><p>The DOJ earlier this month filed a lawsuit accusing three of the largest U.S. health insurers of paying hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks to brokers in exchange for steering patients into the insurers&#39; Medicare Advantage plans.</p><p>Nearly half of the 65 million people covered by Medicare, the U.S. program for people aged 65 and older or with disabilities, are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans run by private insurers.</p><p>The insurers are paid a set rate for each patient, but can be paid more if patients have multiple health conditions.</p><p>Standard Medicare coverage is managed by the government.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>UnitedHealth Stock Drops 17% As the Company Is Under Criminal Probe for Possible Medicare Fraud</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nUnitedHealth Stock Drops 17% As the Company Is Under Criminal Probe for Possible Medicare Fraud\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1079075236\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Tiger Newspress </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2025-05-15 21:37</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><head></head><body><p>The U.S. Department of Justice is carrying out a criminal investigation into <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/UNH\">UnitedHealth</a> for possible Medicare fraud, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.</p><p>UnitedHealth said it had not been notified by the DOJ about the &#34;supposed criminal investigation reported,&#34; and the company stood by &#34;the integrity of our Medicare Advantage program.&#34; The stock fell 17% in Thursday trading.</p><p></p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/4345e2677a3fc5fed51e0082f416ed57\" tg-width=\"416\" tg-height=\"400\"/></p><p>The health insurer has been under pressure for months. On Tuesday, UnitedHealth Group&#39;s CEO, Andrew Witty, stepped down unexpectedly, and the company simultaneously suspended its 2025 financial forecast due to rising medical costs. The announcement sent shares plunging nearly 18% to a four-year low.</p><p>Stephen Hemsley, who led the company for more than a decade until 2017, is taking back the reins following setbacks including the December murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of its insurance unit, which catapulted UnitedHealth into the public consciousness.</p><p>The DOJ&#39;s healthcare-fraud unit is overseeing the criminal investigation, which focuses on the company&#39;s Medicare Advantage business practices, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.</p><p>While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, it has been an active probe since at least last summer, the newspaper said.</p><p>A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment to the Journal about the fresh criminal probe. The department did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comments.</p><p>Last week, UnitedHealth said in a regular filing that it had been &#34;involved or is currently involved in various governmental investigations, audits and reviews,&#34; without disclosing further details.</p><p>In February, the Journal reported a civil fraud investigation into UnitedHealth&#39;s Medicare practices. The company had then said that it was unaware of any new probe.</p><p>In the same month, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley launched an inquiry into UnitedHealth&#39;s Medicare billing practices, requesting detailed records of their compliance program and other related documents. 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On Tuesday, UnitedHealth Group's CEO, Andrew Witty, stepped down unexpectedly, and the company simultaneously suspended its 2025 financial forecast due to rising medical costs. The announcement sent shares plunging nearly 18% to a four-year low.Stephen Hemsley, who led the company for more than a decade until 2017, is taking back the reins following setbacks including the December murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of its insurance unit, which catapulted UnitedHealth into the public consciousness.The DOJ's healthcare-fraud unit is overseeing the criminal investigation, which focuses on the company's Medicare Advantage business practices, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, it has been an active probe since at least last summer, the newspaper said.A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment to the Journal about the fresh criminal probe. 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On Tuesday, UnitedHealth Group&#39;s CEO, Andrew Witty, stepped down unexpectedly, and the company simultaneously suspended its 2025 financial forecast due to rising medical costs. The announcement sent shares plunging nearly 18% to a four-year low.</p><p>Stephen Hemsley, who led the company for more than a decade until 2017, is taking back the reins following setbacks including the December murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of its insurance unit, which catapulted UnitedHealth into the public consciousness.</p><p>The DOJ&#39;s healthcare-fraud unit is overseeing the criminal investigation, which focuses on the company&#39;s Medicare Advantage business practices, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.</p><p>While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, it has been an active probe since at least last summer, the newspaper said.</p><p>A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment to the Journal about the fresh criminal probe. 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On Tuesday, UnitedHealth Group&#39;s CEO, Andrew Witty, stepped down unexpectedly, and the company simultaneously suspended its 2025 financial forecast due to rising medical costs. The announcement sent shares plunging nearly 18% to a four-year low.</p><p>Stephen Hemsley, who led the company for more than a decade until 2017, is taking back the reins following setbacks including the December murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of its insurance unit, which catapulted UnitedHealth into the public consciousness.</p><p>The DOJ&#39;s healthcare-fraud unit is overseeing the criminal investigation, which focuses on the company&#39;s Medicare Advantage business practices, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.</p><p>While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, it has been an active probe since at least last summer, the newspaper said.</p><p>A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment to the Journal about the fresh criminal probe. The department did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comments.</p><p>Last week, UnitedHealth said in a regular filing that it had been &#34;involved or is currently involved in various governmental investigations, audits and reviews,&#34; without disclosing further details.</p><p>In February, the Journal reported a civil fraud investigation into UnitedHealth&#39;s Medicare practices. The company had then said that it was unaware of any new probe.</p><p>In the same month, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley launched an inquiry into UnitedHealth&#39;s Medicare billing practices, requesting detailed records of their compliance program and other related documents. UnitedHealth shares are down about 40% for the year.</p><p>The new investigation follows broader scrutiny into the Medicare Advantage program.</p><p>The DOJ earlier this month filed a lawsuit accusing three of the largest U.S. health insurers of paying hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks to brokers in exchange for steering patients into the insurers&#39; Medicare Advantage plans.</p><p>Nearly half of the 65 million people covered by Medicare, the U.S. program for people aged 65 and older or with disabilities, are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans run by private insurers.</p><p>The insurers are paid a set rate for each patient, but can be paid more if patients have multiple health conditions.</p><p>Standard Medicare coverage is managed by the government.</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"UNH":"联合健康"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1132247955","content_text":"The U.S. Department of Justice is carrying out a criminal investigation into UnitedHealth for possible Medicare fraud, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.UnitedHealth said it had not been notified by the DOJ about the \"supposed criminal investigation reported,\" and the company stood by \"the integrity of our Medicare Advantage program.\" The stock fell 17% in Thursday trading.The health insurer has been under pressure for months. On Tuesday, UnitedHealth Group's CEO, Andrew Witty, stepped down unexpectedly, and the company simultaneously suspended its 2025 financial forecast due to rising medical costs. The announcement sent shares plunging nearly 18% to a four-year low.Stephen Hemsley, who led the company for more than a decade until 2017, is taking back the reins following setbacks including the December murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of its insurance unit, which catapulted UnitedHealth into the public consciousness.The DOJ's healthcare-fraud unit is overseeing the criminal investigation, which focuses on the company's Medicare Advantage business practices, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, it has been an active probe since at least last summer, the newspaper said.A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment to the Journal about the fresh criminal probe. 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HSBC’s forecast implies roughly 16% downside from Tuesday’s $321.58 close.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Shares are down more than 36% in 2025, as UnitedHealth contends with multiple headwinds which include the exit of its CEO earlier this month as well as a Department of Justice investigation into allegations of fraud.</p><p>″[The] new CEO has opportunity to start on a clean(er) slate, but we see risk to earnings growth along with policy overhang,” analyst Sidharth Sahoo wrote on Wednesday.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“While the bulls point to a 30% discount to historical P/E as an attractive entry point, we highlight three key reasons that could spoil the recovery journey,” added Sahoo, citing higher medical costs, political pressure on drug prices and lower overall profitability ahead, especially if there are cuts to Medicaid spending.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The stock trades at a forward price-earnings ratio of just 13, near its lowest of the last 10 years, according to HSBC.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth shares were down 5.3% in morning trading the HSBC call. The stock had garnered some interest recently from traders because of how deeply oversold the shares had become. The stock was up 10% since last Friday through Tuesday’s close.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/19fd136b025f543a695a9d7a7772947e\" tg-width=\"845\" tg-height=\"625\"/></p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">But HSBC thinks the fundamentals will deteriorate some more, further hitting the stock.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“Regaining investor confidence by reminding of the vertically integrated value-based care offering can help UNH recover a part of the premium,” wrote the analyst. “But any further downward earnings revision would weigh on ROE and multiples.”</p><p>Meanwhile, UnitedHealth sank also following a Guardian investigation that claimed the healthcare giant secretly paid nursing homes bonuses to reduce hospital transfers and helped it gain Medicare enrollees.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">According to the Guardian report, the payments were part of a cost-cutting strategy embedded in UnitedHealth’s nursing home initiative, which deployed company medical teams to facilities across the country. These teams reportedly worked to limit hospitalizations.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">In some cases, the Guardian reported that “the company’s insertion of itself into nursing home emergency protocols helped delay or avert transfers for patients who could have benefited from immediate hospital care.”</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">One man reportedly suffered permanent brain damage after a delayed transfer for a suspected stroke.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The report cites internal documents, court filings, and whistleblower complaints alleging that UnitedHealth’s financial incentives led to delayed care and inappropriate pressure on staff to reduce hospital visits. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“No one is truly investigating when a patient suffers harm,” a current UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH) nurse practitioner told the Guardian.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The Guardian said UnitedHealth denied the allegations, calling the claim that its staff blocked hospital transfers “verifiably false.” </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">A former nurse practitioner, Maxwell Ollivant, told the Guardian he filed a congressional declaration urging the federal government to hold the company accountable.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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HSBC’s forecast implies roughly 16% downside from Tuesday’s $321.58 close.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Shares are down more than 36% in 2025, as UnitedHealth contends with multiple headwinds which include the exit of its CEO earlier this month as well as a Department of Justice investigation into allegations of fraud.</p><p>″[The] new CEO has opportunity to start on a clean(er) slate, but we see risk to earnings growth along with policy overhang,” analyst Sidharth Sahoo wrote on Wednesday.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“While the bulls point to a 30% discount to historical P/E as an attractive entry point, we highlight three key reasons that could spoil the recovery journey,” added Sahoo, citing higher medical costs, political pressure on drug prices and lower overall profitability ahead, especially if there are cuts to Medicaid spending.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The stock trades at a forward price-earnings ratio of just 13, near its lowest of the last 10 years, according to HSBC.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth shares were down 5.3% in morning trading the HSBC call. The stock had garnered some interest recently from traders because of how deeply oversold the shares had become. The stock was up 10% since last Friday through Tuesday’s close.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/19fd136b025f543a695a9d7a7772947e\" tg-width=\"845\" tg-height=\"625\"/></p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">But HSBC thinks the fundamentals will deteriorate some more, further hitting the stock.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“Regaining investor confidence by reminding of the vertically integrated value-based care offering can help UNH recover a part of the premium,” wrote the analyst. “But any further downward earnings revision would weigh on ROE and multiples.”</p><p>Meanwhile, UnitedHealth sank also following a Guardian investigation that claimed the healthcare giant secretly paid nursing homes bonuses to reduce hospital transfers and helped it gain Medicare enrollees.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">According to the Guardian report, the payments were part of a cost-cutting strategy embedded in UnitedHealth’s nursing home initiative, which deployed company medical teams to facilities across the country. These teams reportedly worked to limit hospitalizations.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">In some cases, the Guardian reported that “the company’s insertion of itself into nursing home emergency protocols helped delay or avert transfers for patients who could have benefited from immediate hospital care.”</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">One man reportedly suffered permanent brain damage after a delayed transfer for a suspected stroke.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The report cites internal documents, court filings, and whistleblower complaints alleging that UnitedHealth’s financial incentives led to delayed care and inappropriate pressure on staff to reduce hospital visits. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“No one is truly investigating when a patient suffers harm,” a current UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH) nurse practitioner told the Guardian.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The Guardian said UnitedHealth denied the allegations, calling the claim that its staff blocked hospital transfers “verifiably false.” </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">A former nurse practitioner, Maxwell Ollivant, told the Guardian he filed a congressional declaration urging the federal government to hold the company accountable.</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"IE0004445239.USD":"JANUS HENDERSON US FORTY \"A2\" (USD) ACC","IE00B775H168.HKD":"JANUS HENDERSON BALANCED \"A5M\" (HKD) INC","IE00BN29S564.USD":"JANUS HENDERSON BALANCED \"A3\" (USD) INC","IE000M9KFDE8.USD":"NEUBERGER BERMAN US LARGE CAP VALUE \"A\" (USD) ACC","LU0965509010.AUD":"AB LOW VOLATILITY EQUITY PORTFOLIO \"AD\" (AUDHDG) INC","LU0345770308.USD":"NINETY ONE GSF GLOBAL STRATEGIC EQUITY \"A\" (USD) ACC","LU0354030438.USD":"富国美国大盘成长基金Cl A Acc","LU0496365809.HKD":"TEMPLETON GLOBAL INCOME \"A\" (HKD) INC (Q)","LU0345770993.USD":"NINETY ONE GSF GLOBAL STRATEGIC EQUITY \"A\" (USD) INC","SG9999017495.SGD":"UGDP UNITED GLOBAL QUALITY GROWTH \"B\" (SGD) ACC","LU1069347547.HKD":"AB SICAV I - 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HSBC’s forecast implies roughly 16% downside from Tuesday’s $321.58 close.Shares are down more than 36% in 2025, as UnitedHealth contends with multiple headwinds which include the exit of its CEO earlier this month as well as a Department of Justice investigation into allegations of fraud.″[The] new CEO has opportunity to start on a clean(er) slate, but we see risk to earnings growth along with policy overhang,” analyst Sidharth Sahoo wrote on Wednesday.“While the bulls point to a 30% discount to historical P/E as an attractive entry point, we highlight three key reasons that could spoil the recovery journey,” added Sahoo, citing higher medical costs, political pressure on drug prices and lower overall profitability ahead, especially if there are cuts to Medicaid spending.The stock trades at a forward price-earnings ratio of just 13, near its lowest of the last 10 years, according to HSBC.UnitedHealth shares were down 5.3% in morning trading the HSBC call. The stock had garnered some interest recently from traders because of how deeply oversold the shares had become. The stock was up 10% since last Friday through Tuesday’s close.But HSBC thinks the fundamentals will deteriorate some more, further hitting the stock.“Regaining investor confidence by reminding of the vertically integrated value-based care offering can help UNH recover a part of the premium,” wrote the analyst. “But any further downward earnings revision would weigh on ROE and multiples.”Meanwhile, UnitedHealth sank also following a Guardian investigation that claimed the healthcare giant secretly paid nursing homes bonuses to reduce hospital transfers and helped it gain Medicare enrollees.According to the Guardian report, the payments were part of a cost-cutting strategy embedded in UnitedHealth’s nursing home initiative, which deployed company medical teams to facilities across the country. These teams reportedly worked to limit hospitalizations.In some cases, the Guardian reported that “the company’s insertion of itself into nursing home emergency protocols helped delay or avert transfers for patients who could have benefited from immediate hospital care.”One man reportedly suffered permanent brain damage after a delayed transfer for a suspected stroke.The report cites internal documents, court filings, and whistleblower complaints alleging that UnitedHealth’s financial incentives led to delayed care and inappropriate pressure on staff to reduce hospital visits. “No one is truly investigating when a patient suffers harm,” a current UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH) nurse practitioner told the Guardian.The Guardian said UnitedHealth denied the allegations, calling the claim that its staff blocked hospital transfers “verifiably false.” A former nurse practitioner, Maxwell Ollivant, told the Guardian he filed a congressional declaration urging the federal government to hold the company accountable.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"UNH":0.9}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1553,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":437432875499616,"gmtCreate":1747825941896,"gmtModify":1747825945681,"author":{"id":"4204371674932382","authorId":"4204371674932382","name":"DanChang","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":12,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4204371674932382","authorIdStr":"4204371674932382"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Had HSBC short UNH?&nbsp;","listText":"Had HSBC short UNH?&nbsp;","text":"Had HSBC short UNH?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/437432875499616","repostId":"2537698675","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"2537698675","kind":"live","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Providing stock market headlines, business news, financials and earnings ","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Tiger Newspress","id":"1079075236","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1747834790,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2537698675?lang=en_US&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2025-05-21 21:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"UnitedHealth Shares Sink on HSBC Downgrade and Nursing Home Kickbacks","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2537698675","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"HSBC downgraded UnitedHealth shares, saying the recent rout has still not made the shares cheap enou","content":"<html><head></head><body><p style=\"text-align: start;\">HSBC downgraded UnitedHealth shares, saying the recent rout has still not made the shares cheap enough to buy given the risks to earnings head.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The firm slashed UnitedHealth’s rating reduce from hold on Wednesday, and trimmed its price target to $270 per share from $490. HSBC’s forecast implies roughly 16% downside from Tuesday’s $321.58 close.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Shares are down more than 36% in 2025, as UnitedHealth contends with multiple headwinds which include the exit of its CEO earlier this month as well as a Department of Justice investigation into allegations of fraud.</p><p>″[The] new CEO has opportunity to start on a clean(er) slate, but we see risk to earnings growth along with policy overhang,” analyst Sidharth Sahoo wrote on Wednesday.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“While the bulls point to a 30% discount to historical P/E as an attractive entry point, we highlight three key reasons that could spoil the recovery journey,” added Sahoo, citing higher medical costs, political pressure on drug prices and lower overall profitability ahead, especially if there are cuts to Medicaid spending.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The stock trades at a forward price-earnings ratio of just 13, near its lowest of the last 10 years, according to HSBC.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth shares were down 5.3% in morning trading the HSBC call. The stock had garnered some interest recently from traders because of how deeply oversold the shares had become. The stock was up 10% since last Friday through Tuesday’s close.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/19fd136b025f543a695a9d7a7772947e\" tg-width=\"845\" tg-height=\"625\"/></p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">But HSBC thinks the fundamentals will deteriorate some more, further hitting the stock.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“Regaining investor confidence by reminding of the vertically integrated value-based care offering can help UNH recover a part of the premium,” wrote the analyst. “But any further downward earnings revision would weigh on ROE and multiples.”</p><p>Meanwhile, UnitedHealth sank also following a Guardian investigation that claimed the healthcare giant secretly paid nursing homes bonuses to reduce hospital transfers and helped it gain Medicare enrollees.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">According to the Guardian report, the payments were part of a cost-cutting strategy embedded in UnitedHealth’s nursing home initiative, which deployed company medical teams to facilities across the country. These teams reportedly worked to limit hospitalizations.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">In some cases, the Guardian reported that “the company’s insertion of itself into nursing home emergency protocols helped delay or avert transfers for patients who could have benefited from immediate hospital care.”</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">One man reportedly suffered permanent brain damage after a delayed transfer for a suspected stroke.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The report cites internal documents, court filings, and whistleblower complaints alleging that UnitedHealth’s financial incentives led to delayed care and inappropriate pressure on staff to reduce hospital visits. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“No one is truly investigating when a patient suffers harm,” a current UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH) nurse practitioner told the Guardian.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The Guardian said UnitedHealth denied the allegations, calling the claim that its staff blocked hospital transfers “verifiably false.” </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">A former nurse practitioner, Maxwell Ollivant, told the Guardian he filed a congressional declaration urging the federal government to hold the company accountable.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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HSBC’s forecast implies roughly 16% downside from Tuesday’s $321.58 close.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Shares are down more than 36% in 2025, as UnitedHealth contends with multiple headwinds which include the exit of its CEO earlier this month as well as a Department of Justice investigation into allegations of fraud.</p><p>″[The] new CEO has opportunity to start on a clean(er) slate, but we see risk to earnings growth along with policy overhang,” analyst Sidharth Sahoo wrote on Wednesday.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“While the bulls point to a 30% discount to historical P/E as an attractive entry point, we highlight three key reasons that could spoil the recovery journey,” added Sahoo, citing higher medical costs, political pressure on drug prices and lower overall profitability ahead, especially if there are cuts to Medicaid spending.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The stock trades at a forward price-earnings ratio of just 13, near its lowest of the last 10 years, according to HSBC.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth shares were down 5.3% in morning trading the HSBC call. The stock had garnered some interest recently from traders because of how deeply oversold the shares had become. The stock was up 10% since last Friday through Tuesday’s close.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/19fd136b025f543a695a9d7a7772947e\" tg-width=\"845\" tg-height=\"625\"/></p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">But HSBC thinks the fundamentals will deteriorate some more, further hitting the stock.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“Regaining investor confidence by reminding of the vertically integrated value-based care offering can help UNH recover a part of the premium,” wrote the analyst. “But any further downward earnings revision would weigh on ROE and multiples.”</p><p>Meanwhile, UnitedHealth sank also following a Guardian investigation that claimed the healthcare giant secretly paid nursing homes bonuses to reduce hospital transfers and helped it gain Medicare enrollees.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">According to the Guardian report, the payments were part of a cost-cutting strategy embedded in UnitedHealth’s nursing home initiative, which deployed company medical teams to facilities across the country. These teams reportedly worked to limit hospitalizations.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">In some cases, the Guardian reported that “the company’s insertion of itself into nursing home emergency protocols helped delay or avert transfers for patients who could have benefited from immediate hospital care.”</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">One man reportedly suffered permanent brain damage after a delayed transfer for a suspected stroke.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The report cites internal documents, court filings, and whistleblower complaints alleging that UnitedHealth’s financial incentives led to delayed care and inappropriate pressure on staff to reduce hospital visits. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“No one is truly investigating when a patient suffers harm,” a current UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH) nurse practitioner told the Guardian.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The Guardian said UnitedHealth denied the allegations, calling the claim that its staff blocked hospital transfers “verifiably false.” </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">A former nurse practitioner, Maxwell Ollivant, told the Guardian he filed a congressional declaration urging the federal government to hold the company accountable.</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"IE0004445239.USD":"JANUS HENDERSON US FORTY \"A2\" (USD) ACC","IE00B775H168.HKD":"JANUS HENDERSON BALANCED \"A5M\" (HKD) INC","IE00BN29S564.USD":"JANUS HENDERSON BALANCED \"A3\" (USD) INC","IE000M9KFDE8.USD":"NEUBERGER BERMAN US LARGE CAP VALUE \"A\" (USD) ACC","LU0965509010.AUD":"AB LOW VOLATILITY EQUITY PORTFOLIO \"AD\" (AUDHDG) INC","LU0345770308.USD":"NINETY ONE GSF GLOBAL STRATEGIC EQUITY \"A\" (USD) ACC","LU0354030438.USD":"富国美国大盘成长基金Cl A Acc","LU0496365809.HKD":"TEMPLETON GLOBAL INCOME \"A\" (HKD) INC (Q)","LU0345770993.USD":"NINETY ONE GSF GLOBAL STRATEGIC EQUITY \"A\" (USD) INC","SG9999017495.SGD":"UGDP UNITED GLOBAL QUALITY GROWTH \"B\" (SGD) ACC","LU1069347547.HKD":"AB SICAV I - 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HSBC’s forecast implies roughly 16% downside from Tuesday’s $321.58 close.Shares are down more than 36% in 2025, as UnitedHealth contends with multiple headwinds which include the exit of its CEO earlier this month as well as a Department of Justice investigation into allegations of fraud.″[The] new CEO has opportunity to start on a clean(er) slate, but we see risk to earnings growth along with policy overhang,” analyst Sidharth Sahoo wrote on Wednesday.“While the bulls point to a 30% discount to historical P/E as an attractive entry point, we highlight three key reasons that could spoil the recovery journey,” added Sahoo, citing higher medical costs, political pressure on drug prices and lower overall profitability ahead, especially if there are cuts to Medicaid spending.The stock trades at a forward price-earnings ratio of just 13, near its lowest of the last 10 years, according to HSBC.UnitedHealth shares were down 5.3% in morning trading the HSBC call. The stock had garnered some interest recently from traders because of how deeply oversold the shares had become. The stock was up 10% since last Friday through Tuesday’s close.But HSBC thinks the fundamentals will deteriorate some more, further hitting the stock.“Regaining investor confidence by reminding of the vertically integrated value-based care offering can help UNH recover a part of the premium,” wrote the analyst. “But any further downward earnings revision would weigh on ROE and multiples.”Meanwhile, UnitedHealth sank also following a Guardian investigation that claimed the healthcare giant secretly paid nursing homes bonuses to reduce hospital transfers and helped it gain Medicare enrollees.According to the Guardian report, the payments were part of a cost-cutting strategy embedded in UnitedHealth’s nursing home initiative, which deployed company medical teams to facilities across the country. These teams reportedly worked to limit hospitalizations.In some cases, the Guardian reported that “the company’s insertion of itself into nursing home emergency protocols helped delay or avert transfers for patients who could have benefited from immediate hospital care.”One man reportedly suffered permanent brain damage after a delayed transfer for a suspected stroke.The report cites internal documents, court filings, and whistleblower complaints alleging that UnitedHealth’s financial incentives led to delayed care and inappropriate pressure on staff to reduce hospital visits. “No one is truly investigating when a patient suffers harm,” a current UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH) nurse practitioner told the Guardian.The Guardian said UnitedHealth denied the allegations, calling the claim that its staff blocked hospital transfers “verifiably false.” A former nurse practitioner, Maxwell Ollivant, told the Guardian he filed a congressional declaration urging the federal government to hold the company accountable.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"UNH":0.9}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1380,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":435397716018024,"gmtCreate":1747316517959,"gmtModify":1747316813955,"author":{"id":"4204371674932382","authorId":"4204371674932382","name":"DanChang","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":12,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4204371674932382","authorIdStr":"4204371674932382"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"<a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/UNH\">$UnitedHealth(UNH)$&nbsp;</a>had announce officially on 14 May this is date news.&nbsp;","listText":"<a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/UNH\">$UnitedHealth(UNH)$&nbsp;</a>had announce officially on 14 May this is date news.&nbsp;","text":"$UnitedHealth(UNH)$ had announce officially on 14 May this is date news.","images":[{"img":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/2b73d1c01721f74687e89f1417549f9d"}],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/435397716018024","repostId":"1132247955","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1132247955","kind":"news","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Providing stock market headlines, business news, financials and earnings ","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Tiger Newspress","id":"1079075236","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1747316261,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1132247955?lang=en_US&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2025-05-15 21:37","market":"us","language":"en","title":"UnitedHealth Stock Drops 17% As the Company Is Under Criminal Probe for Possible Medicare Fraud","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1132247955","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"The U.S. Department of Justice is carrying out a criminal investigation into  $UnitedHealth(UNH)$  for possible Medicare fraud, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.UnitedHealth said it had n","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>The U.S. Department of Justice is carrying out a criminal investigation into <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/UNH\">UnitedHealth</a> for possible Medicare fraud, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.</p><p>UnitedHealth said it had not been notified by the DOJ about the &#34;supposed criminal investigation reported,&#34; and the company stood by &#34;the integrity of our Medicare Advantage program.&#34; The stock fell 17% in Thursday trading.</p><p></p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/4345e2677a3fc5fed51e0082f416ed57\" tg-width=\"416\" tg-height=\"400\"/></p><p>The health insurer has been under pressure for months. On Tuesday, UnitedHealth Group&#39;s CEO, Andrew Witty, stepped down unexpectedly, and the company simultaneously suspended its 2025 financial forecast due to rising medical costs. The announcement sent shares plunging nearly 18% to a four-year low.</p><p>Stephen Hemsley, who led the company for more than a decade until 2017, is taking back the reins following setbacks including the December murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of its insurance unit, which catapulted UnitedHealth into the public consciousness.</p><p>The DOJ&#39;s healthcare-fraud unit is overseeing the criminal investigation, which focuses on the company&#39;s Medicare Advantage business practices, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.</p><p>While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, it has been an active probe since at least last summer, the newspaper said.</p><p>A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment to the Journal about the fresh criminal probe. The department did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comments.</p><p>Last week, UnitedHealth said in a regular filing that it had been &#34;involved or is currently involved in various governmental investigations, audits and reviews,&#34; without disclosing further details.</p><p>In February, the Journal reported a civil fraud investigation into UnitedHealth&#39;s Medicare practices. The company had then said that it was unaware of any new probe.</p><p>In the same month, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley launched an inquiry into UnitedHealth&#39;s Medicare billing practices, requesting detailed records of their compliance program and other related documents. UnitedHealth shares are down about 40% for the year.</p><p>The new investigation follows broader scrutiny into the Medicare Advantage program.</p><p>The DOJ earlier this month filed a lawsuit accusing three of the largest U.S. health insurers of paying hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks to brokers in exchange for steering patients into the insurers&#39; Medicare Advantage plans.</p><p>Nearly half of the 65 million people covered by Medicare, the U.S. program for people aged 65 and older or with disabilities, are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans run by private insurers.</p><p>The insurers are paid a set rate for each patient, but can be paid more if patients have multiple health conditions.</p><p>Standard Medicare coverage is managed by the government.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>UnitedHealth Stock Drops 17% As the Company Is Under Criminal Probe for Possible Medicare Fraud</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nUnitedHealth Stock Drops 17% As the Company Is Under Criminal Probe for Possible Medicare Fraud\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1079075236\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Tiger Newspress </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2025-05-15 21:37</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><head></head><body><p>The U.S. Department of Justice is carrying out a criminal investigation into <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/UNH\">UnitedHealth</a> for possible Medicare fraud, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.</p><p>UnitedHealth said it had not been notified by the DOJ about the &#34;supposed criminal investigation reported,&#34; and the company stood by &#34;the integrity of our Medicare Advantage program.&#34; The stock fell 17% in Thursday trading.</p><p></p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/4345e2677a3fc5fed51e0082f416ed57\" tg-width=\"416\" tg-height=\"400\"/></p><p>The health insurer has been under pressure for months. On Tuesday, UnitedHealth Group&#39;s CEO, Andrew Witty, stepped down unexpectedly, and the company simultaneously suspended its 2025 financial forecast due to rising medical costs. The announcement sent shares plunging nearly 18% to a four-year low.</p><p>Stephen Hemsley, who led the company for more than a decade until 2017, is taking back the reins following setbacks including the December murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of its insurance unit, which catapulted UnitedHealth into the public consciousness.</p><p>The DOJ&#39;s healthcare-fraud unit is overseeing the criminal investigation, which focuses on the company&#39;s Medicare Advantage business practices, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.</p><p>While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, it has been an active probe since at least last summer, the newspaper said.</p><p>A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment to the Journal about the fresh criminal probe. The department did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comments.</p><p>Last week, UnitedHealth said in a regular filing that it had been &#34;involved or is currently involved in various governmental investigations, audits and reviews,&#34; without disclosing further details.</p><p>In February, the Journal reported a civil fraud investigation into UnitedHealth&#39;s Medicare practices. The company had then said that it was unaware of any new probe.</p><p>In the same month, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley launched an inquiry into UnitedHealth&#39;s Medicare billing practices, requesting detailed records of their compliance program and other related documents. UnitedHealth shares are down about 40% for the year.</p><p>The new investigation follows broader scrutiny into the Medicare Advantage program.</p><p>The DOJ earlier this month filed a lawsuit accusing three of the largest U.S. health insurers of paying hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks to brokers in exchange for steering patients into the insurers&#39; Medicare Advantage plans.</p><p>Nearly half of the 65 million people covered by Medicare, the U.S. program for people aged 65 and older or with disabilities, are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans run by private insurers.</p><p>The insurers are paid a set rate for each patient, but can be paid more if patients have multiple health conditions.</p><p>Standard Medicare coverage is managed by the government.</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"UNH":"联合健康"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1132247955","content_text":"The U.S. Department of Justice is carrying out a criminal investigation into UnitedHealth for possible Medicare fraud, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.UnitedHealth said it had not been notified by the DOJ about the \"supposed criminal investigation reported,\" and the company stood by \"the integrity of our Medicare Advantage program.\" The stock fell 17% in Thursday trading.The health insurer has been under pressure for months. On Tuesday, UnitedHealth Group's CEO, Andrew Witty, stepped down unexpectedly, and the company simultaneously suspended its 2025 financial forecast due to rising medical costs. The announcement sent shares plunging nearly 18% to a four-year low.Stephen Hemsley, who led the company for more than a decade until 2017, is taking back the reins following setbacks including the December murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of its insurance unit, which catapulted UnitedHealth into the public consciousness.The DOJ's healthcare-fraud unit is overseeing the criminal investigation, which focuses on the company's Medicare Advantage business practices, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, it has been an active probe since at least last summer, the newspaper said.A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment to the Journal about the fresh criminal probe. The department did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comments.Last week, UnitedHealth said in a regular filing that it had been \"involved or is currently involved in various governmental investigations, audits and reviews,\" without disclosing further details.In February, the Journal reported a civil fraud investigation into UnitedHealth's Medicare practices. The company had then said that it was unaware of any new probe.In the same month, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley launched an inquiry into UnitedHealth's Medicare billing practices, requesting detailed records of their compliance program and other related documents. UnitedHealth shares are down about 40% for the year.The new investigation follows broader scrutiny into the Medicare Advantage program.The DOJ earlier this month filed a lawsuit accusing three of the largest U.S. health insurers of paying hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks to brokers in exchange for steering patients into the insurers' Medicare Advantage plans.Nearly half of the 65 million people covered by Medicare, the U.S. program for people aged 65 and older or with disabilities, are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans run by private insurers.The insurers are paid a set rate for each patient, but can be paid more if patients have multiple health conditions.Standard Medicare coverage is managed by the government.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"UNH":1.1}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1660,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":1,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":435396440522752,"gmtCreate":1747315882467,"gmtModify":1747316812441,"author":{"id":"4204371674932382","authorId":"4204371674932382","name":"DanChang","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":12,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4204371674932382","authorIdStr":"4204371674932382"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"<a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/UNH\">$UnitedHealth(UNH)$&nbsp;</a> this is a fate news.","listText":"<a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/UNH\">$UnitedHealth(UNH)$&nbsp;</a> this is a fate news.","text":"$UnitedHealth(UNH)$ this is a fate news.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/435396440522752","repostId":"1132247955","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1132247955","kind":"news","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Providing stock market headlines, business news, financials and earnings ","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Tiger Newspress","id":"1079075236","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1747316261,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1132247955?lang=en_US&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2025-05-15 21:37","market":"us","language":"en","title":"UnitedHealth Stock Drops 17% As the Company Is Under Criminal Probe for Possible Medicare Fraud","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1132247955","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"The U.S. Department of Justice is carrying out a criminal investigation into  $UnitedHealth(UNH)$  for possible Medicare fraud, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.UnitedHealth said it had n","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>The U.S. Department of Justice is carrying out a criminal investigation into <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/UNH\">UnitedHealth</a> for possible Medicare fraud, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.</p><p>UnitedHealth said it had not been notified by the DOJ about the &#34;supposed criminal investigation reported,&#34; and the company stood by &#34;the integrity of our Medicare Advantage program.&#34; The stock fell 17% in Thursday trading.</p><p></p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/4345e2677a3fc5fed51e0082f416ed57\" tg-width=\"416\" tg-height=\"400\"/></p><p>The health insurer has been under pressure for months. On Tuesday, UnitedHealth Group&#39;s CEO, Andrew Witty, stepped down unexpectedly, and the company simultaneously suspended its 2025 financial forecast due to rising medical costs. The announcement sent shares plunging nearly 18% to a four-year low.</p><p>Stephen Hemsley, who led the company for more than a decade until 2017, is taking back the reins following setbacks including the December murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of its insurance unit, which catapulted UnitedHealth into the public consciousness.</p><p>The DOJ&#39;s healthcare-fraud unit is overseeing the criminal investigation, which focuses on the company&#39;s Medicare Advantage business practices, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.</p><p>While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, it has been an active probe since at least last summer, the newspaper said.</p><p>A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment to the Journal about the fresh criminal probe. 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On Tuesday, UnitedHealth Group&#39;s CEO, Andrew Witty, stepped down unexpectedly, and the company simultaneously suspended its 2025 financial forecast due to rising medical costs. The announcement sent shares plunging nearly 18% to a four-year low.</p><p>Stephen Hemsley, who led the company for more than a decade until 2017, is taking back the reins following setbacks including the December murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of its insurance unit, which catapulted UnitedHealth into the public consciousness.</p><p>The DOJ&#39;s healthcare-fraud unit is overseeing the criminal investigation, which focuses on the company&#39;s Medicare Advantage business practices, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.</p><p>While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, it has been an active probe since at least last summer, the newspaper said.</p><p>A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment to the Journal about the fresh criminal probe. 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On Tuesday, UnitedHealth Group's CEO, Andrew Witty, stepped down unexpectedly, and the company simultaneously suspended its 2025 financial forecast due to rising medical costs. The announcement sent shares plunging nearly 18% to a four-year low.Stephen Hemsley, who led the company for more than a decade until 2017, is taking back the reins following setbacks including the December murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of its insurance unit, which catapulted UnitedHealth into the public consciousness.The DOJ's healthcare-fraud unit is overseeing the criminal investigation, which focuses on the company's Medicare Advantage business practices, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, it has been an active probe since at least last summer, the newspaper said.A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment to the Journal about the fresh criminal probe. 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On Tuesday, UnitedHealth Group&#39;s CEO, Andrew Witty, stepped down unexpectedly, and the company simultaneously suspended its 2025 financial forecast due to rising medical costs. The announcement sent shares plunging nearly 18% to a four-year low.</p><p>Stephen Hemsley, who led the company for more than a decade until 2017, is taking back the reins following setbacks including the December murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of its insurance unit, which catapulted UnitedHealth into the public consciousness.</p><p>The DOJ&#39;s healthcare-fraud unit is overseeing the criminal investigation, which focuses on the company&#39;s Medicare Advantage business practices, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.</p><p>While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, it has been an active probe since at least last summer, the newspaper said.</p><p>A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment to the Journal about the fresh criminal probe. 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On Tuesday, UnitedHealth Group&#39;s CEO, Andrew Witty, stepped down unexpectedly, and the company simultaneously suspended its 2025 financial forecast due to rising medical costs. The announcement sent shares plunging nearly 18% to a four-year low.</p><p>Stephen Hemsley, who led the company for more than a decade until 2017, is taking back the reins following setbacks including the December murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of its insurance unit, which catapulted UnitedHealth into the public consciousness.</p><p>The DOJ&#39;s healthcare-fraud unit is overseeing the criminal investigation, which focuses on the company&#39;s Medicare Advantage business practices, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.</p><p>While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, it has been an active probe since at least last summer, the newspaper said.</p><p>A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment to the Journal about the fresh criminal probe. The department did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comments.</p><p>Last week, UnitedHealth said in a regular filing that it had been &#34;involved or is currently involved in various governmental investigations, audits and reviews,&#34; without disclosing further details.</p><p>In February, the Journal reported a civil fraud investigation into UnitedHealth&#39;s Medicare practices. The company had then said that it was unaware of any new probe.</p><p>In the same month, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley launched an inquiry into UnitedHealth&#39;s Medicare billing practices, requesting detailed records of their compliance program and other related documents. UnitedHealth shares are down about 40% for the year.</p><p>The new investigation follows broader scrutiny into the Medicare Advantage program.</p><p>The DOJ earlier this month filed a lawsuit accusing three of the largest U.S. health insurers of paying hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks to brokers in exchange for steering patients into the insurers&#39; Medicare Advantage plans.</p><p>Nearly half of the 65 million people covered by Medicare, the U.S. program for people aged 65 and older or with disabilities, are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans run by private insurers.</p><p>The insurers are paid a set rate for each patient, but can be paid more if patients have multiple health conditions.</p><p>Standard Medicare coverage is managed by the government.</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"UNH":"联合健康"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1132247955","content_text":"The U.S. Department of Justice is carrying out a criminal investigation into UnitedHealth for possible Medicare fraud, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.UnitedHealth said it had not been notified by the DOJ about the \"supposed criminal investigation reported,\" and the company stood by \"the integrity of our Medicare Advantage program.\" The stock fell 17% in Thursday trading.The health insurer has been under pressure for months. On Tuesday, UnitedHealth Group's CEO, Andrew Witty, stepped down unexpectedly, and the company simultaneously suspended its 2025 financial forecast due to rising medical costs. The announcement sent shares plunging nearly 18% to a four-year low.Stephen Hemsley, who led the company for more than a decade until 2017, is taking back the reins following setbacks including the December murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of its insurance unit, which catapulted UnitedHealth into the public consciousness.The DOJ's healthcare-fraud unit is overseeing the criminal investigation, which focuses on the company's Medicare Advantage business practices, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, it has been an active probe since at least last summer, the newspaper said.A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment to the Journal about the fresh criminal probe. The department did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comments.Last week, UnitedHealth said in a regular filing that it had been \"involved or is currently involved in various governmental investigations, audits and reviews,\" without disclosing further details.In February, the Journal reported a civil fraud investigation into UnitedHealth's Medicare practices. The company had then said that it was unaware of any new probe.In the same month, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley launched an inquiry into UnitedHealth's Medicare billing practices, requesting detailed records of their compliance program and other related documents. UnitedHealth shares are down about 40% for the year.The new investigation follows broader scrutiny into the Medicare Advantage program.The DOJ earlier this month filed a lawsuit accusing three of the largest U.S. health insurers of paying hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks to brokers in exchange for steering patients into the insurers' Medicare Advantage plans.Nearly half of the 65 million people covered by Medicare, the U.S. program for people aged 65 and older or with disabilities, are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans run by private insurers.The insurers are paid a set rate for each patient, but can be paid more if patients have multiple health conditions.Standard Medicare coverage is managed by the 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had official announcement it is a bullshit n fate news.","listText":"UNH had official announcement it is a bullshit n fate news.","text":"UNH had official announcement it is a bullshit n fate news.","images":[{"img":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/2b73d1c01721f74687e89f1417549f9d"}],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/435398593708832","repostId":"1165743932","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1165743932","kind":"news","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Dow Jones publishes the world’s most trusted business news and financial information in a variety of media.","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Dow Jones","id":"1012688067","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99"},"pubTimestamp":1747265710,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1165743932?lang=en_US&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2025-05-15 07:35","market":"us","language":"en","title":"UnitedHealth Group Is Under Criminal Investigation for Possible Medicare Fraud","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1165743932","media":"Dow Jones","summary":"The Justice Department is investigating UnitedHealth Group for possible criminal Medicare fraud, people familiar with the matter said.UnitedHealth shares slumped 7% on the news.The healthcare-fraud un","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>The Justice Department is investigating UnitedHealth Group for possible criminal Medicare fraud, people familiar with the matter said.</p><p>UnitedHealth shares slumped 7% on the news.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/c4868f90473e85a368febb5d2da12b02\" tg-width=\"795\" tg-height=\"846\"/></p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The healthcare-fraud unit of the Justice Department’s criminal division is overseeing the investigation, the people said, and it has been an active probe since at least last summer. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, the people said the federal investigation is focusing on the company’s Medicare Advantage business practices.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth didn’t respond to written questions Wednesday. A DOJ spokesman declined to comment.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The probe adds to a list of government inquiries into the company, including investigations of potential antitrust violations and a civil investigation of its Medicare billing practices, including at its doctors offices.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth is seeking to recover from a meltdown of its stock over its financial performance and the sudden replacement this week of its chief executive officer, Andrew Witty, with its chairman and former CEO Stephen Hemsley. UnitedHealth’s stock has declined by almost 50% over the past month.</p><p>An error occurred. Please try again later.</p><p>After the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City, physicians offer a sober look at frustrations with the healthcare system in the U.S. Photo illustration: WSJ</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Last year, the company faced a hack of a technology unit that disrupted payments to many U.S. health providers for months, and the killing of its top insurance-arm executive.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">All of this comes as the Trump administration and Congress look to cut federal health spending, a key source of UnitedHealth’s success. In March, U.S. senators grilled Mehmet Oz, now the Medicare and Medicaid agency head, during his confirmation hearing on the findings of a Wall Street Journal investigation of practices of Medicare Advantage insurers such as UnitedHealth. Oz pledged a crackdown.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The criminal investigation could pose an additional challenge to UnitedHealth in the midst of a deep deficit of trust among shareholders, regulators and customers.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The Justice Department’s criminal healthcare fraud unit focuses on crimes such as kickbacks that trigger higher Medicare and Medicare payments.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The fraud unit has offices in more than a dozen cities, but is managed from DOJ’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Prosecutors are working on the criminal investigation of UnitedHealth from the fraud unit’s office in New York, the people familiar with the investigation said.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/5fcfc3bd57fa78eac6bed93af66b2ee7\" alt=\"Andrew Witty, then CEO of UnitedHealth, testified in May 2024 before a Senate committee looking into hacking.\" title=\"Andrew Witty, then CEO of UnitedHealth, testified in May 2024 before a Senate committee looking into hacking.\" tg-width=\"639\" tg-height=\"639\"/><span>Andrew Witty, then CEO of UnitedHealth, testified in May 2024 before a Senate committee looking into hacking.</span></p><p>Andrew Witty, then CEO of UnitedHealth, testified in May 2024 before a Senate committee looking into hacking. Photo: Kent Nishimura/Getty Images</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">For years, the unit focused on busting doctors, laboratories and other service providers who overbill government health programs and insurers.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">But the unit has turned its focus to insurers in the Medicare Advantage system, where they now oversee taxpayer-funded benefits for more than half the seniors and disabled people in the broader Medicare program, people familiar with the matter said. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Medicare Advantage insurers are paid extra for covering sicker patients, creating an incentive to document diagnoses for patients they cover. In some cases, the Journal’s reporting has shown, questionable diagnoses by UnitedHealth added billions to taxpayers’ costs.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The company disputed the Journal’s findings, saying that its analysis was “inaccurate and biased,” and that Medicare Advantage “provides better health outcomes and more affordable healthcare for millions of seniors” than traditional Medicare.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth’s latest annual securities filing says the company “has been involved or is currently involved in various governmental investigations, audits and reviews,” and flags involved agencies including the Justice Department. It doesn’t specifically mention the criminal, civil and antitrust probes the Journal has reported.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth dismissed a Wall Street Journal report in February revealing the civil Medicare fraud investigation into the company as “misinformation” and said that it wasn’t aware of a “new” probe.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">A March 11 email, revealed in a lawsuit by a UnitedHealth investor, shows a company lawyer acknowledging that “the government has asked us some questions regarding Optum’s coding practices,” referring to the Medicare billing practices of UnitedHealth’s healthcare services arm, which includes its doctor groups. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The email, cautioning a former UnitedHealth employee on the possibility of being contacted by the government, described the investigation as “in the early stages.”</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">A UnitedHealth spokesman said last week that the company stood by its February statement and declined to comment on the email.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The DOJ has struggled to make its case in fraud claims against UnitedHealth in the past. In March, a court-appointed special master recommended that a judge effectively dismiss a whistleblower case against UnitedHealth after concluding the government hadn’t presented evidence that patient diagnoses submitted for payment were inaccurate. The judge in the case hasn’t yet ruled on the recommendation.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">That civil case, brought by a former UnitedHealth employee turned whistleblower in 2011 and joined by the government in 2017, concerned claims that UnitedHealth submitted $2 billion worth of diagnoses recorded by doctors that its own reviewers determined weren’t supported by patients’ medical charts. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The DOJ asked the judge to reject the special master’s recommendation. UnitedHealth said the finding showed “there was no evidence to support the DOJ’s claims we were overpaid or that we did anything wrong.” </p><p><br/></p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>UnitedHealth Group Is Under Criminal Investigation for Possible Medicare Fraud</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nUnitedHealth Group Is Under Criminal Investigation for Possible Medicare Fraud\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1012688067\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Dow Jones </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2025-05-15 07:35</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><head></head><body><p>The Justice Department is investigating UnitedHealth Group for possible criminal Medicare fraud, people familiar with the matter said.</p><p>UnitedHealth shares slumped 7% on the news.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/c4868f90473e85a368febb5d2da12b02\" tg-width=\"795\" tg-height=\"846\"/></p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The healthcare-fraud unit of the Justice Department’s criminal division is overseeing the investigation, the people said, and it has been an active probe since at least last summer. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, the people said the federal investigation is focusing on the company’s Medicare Advantage business practices.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth didn’t respond to written questions Wednesday. A DOJ spokesman declined to comment.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The probe adds to a list of government inquiries into the company, including investigations of potential antitrust violations and a civil investigation of its Medicare billing practices, including at its doctors offices.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth is seeking to recover from a meltdown of its stock over its financial performance and the sudden replacement this week of its chief executive officer, Andrew Witty, with its chairman and former CEO Stephen Hemsley. UnitedHealth’s stock has declined by almost 50% over the past month.</p><p>An error occurred. Please try again later.</p><p>After the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City, physicians offer a sober look at frustrations with the healthcare system in the U.S. Photo illustration: WSJ</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Last year, the company faced a hack of a technology unit that disrupted payments to many U.S. health providers for months, and the killing of its top insurance-arm executive.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">All of this comes as the Trump administration and Congress look to cut federal health spending, a key source of UnitedHealth’s success. In March, U.S. senators grilled Mehmet Oz, now the Medicare and Medicaid agency head, during his confirmation hearing on the findings of a Wall Street Journal investigation of practices of Medicare Advantage insurers such as UnitedHealth. Oz pledged a crackdown.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The criminal investigation could pose an additional challenge to UnitedHealth in the midst of a deep deficit of trust among shareholders, regulators and customers.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The Justice Department’s criminal healthcare fraud unit focuses on crimes such as kickbacks that trigger higher Medicare and Medicare payments.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The fraud unit has offices in more than a dozen cities, but is managed from DOJ’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Prosecutors are working on the criminal investigation of UnitedHealth from the fraud unit’s office in New York, the people familiar with the investigation said.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/5fcfc3bd57fa78eac6bed93af66b2ee7\" alt=\"Andrew Witty, then CEO of UnitedHealth, testified in May 2024 before a Senate committee looking into hacking.\" title=\"Andrew Witty, then CEO of UnitedHealth, testified in May 2024 before a Senate committee looking into hacking.\" tg-width=\"639\" tg-height=\"639\"/><span>Andrew Witty, then CEO of UnitedHealth, testified in May 2024 before a Senate committee looking into hacking.</span></p><p>Andrew Witty, then CEO of UnitedHealth, testified in May 2024 before a Senate committee looking into hacking. Photo: Kent Nishimura/Getty Images</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">For years, the unit focused on busting doctors, laboratories and other service providers who overbill government health programs and insurers.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">But the unit has turned its focus to insurers in the Medicare Advantage system, where they now oversee taxpayer-funded benefits for more than half the seniors and disabled people in the broader Medicare program, people familiar with the matter said. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Medicare Advantage insurers are paid extra for covering sicker patients, creating an incentive to document diagnoses for patients they cover. In some cases, the Journal’s reporting has shown, questionable diagnoses by UnitedHealth added billions to taxpayers’ costs.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The company disputed the Journal’s findings, saying that its analysis was “inaccurate and biased,” and that Medicare Advantage “provides better health outcomes and more affordable healthcare for millions of seniors” than traditional Medicare.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth’s latest annual securities filing says the company “has been involved or is currently involved in various governmental investigations, audits and reviews,” and flags involved agencies including the Justice Department. It doesn’t specifically mention the criminal, civil and antitrust probes the Journal has reported.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">UnitedHealth dismissed a Wall Street Journal report in February revealing the civil Medicare fraud investigation into the company as “misinformation” and said that it wasn’t aware of a “new” probe.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">A March 11 email, revealed in a lawsuit by a UnitedHealth investor, shows a company lawyer acknowledging that “the government has asked us some questions regarding Optum’s coding practices,” referring to the Medicare billing practices of UnitedHealth’s healthcare services arm, which includes its doctor groups. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The email, cautioning a former UnitedHealth employee on the possibility of being contacted by the government, described the investigation as “in the early stages.”</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">A UnitedHealth spokesman said last week that the company stood by its February statement and declined to comment on the email.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The DOJ has struggled to make its case in fraud claims against UnitedHealth in the past. In March, a court-appointed special master recommended that a judge effectively dismiss a whistleblower case against UnitedHealth after concluding the government hadn’t presented evidence that patient diagnoses submitted for payment were inaccurate. The judge in the case hasn’t yet ruled on the recommendation.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">That civil case, brought by a former UnitedHealth employee turned whistleblower in 2011 and joined by the government in 2017, concerned claims that UnitedHealth submitted $2 billion worth of diagnoses recorded by doctors that its own reviewers determined weren’t supported by patients’ medical charts. </p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The DOJ asked the judge to reject the special master’s recommendation. UnitedHealth said the finding showed “there was no evidence to support the DOJ’s claims we were overpaid or that we did anything wrong.” </p><p><br/></p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"UNH":"联合健康"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1165743932","content_text":"The Justice Department is investigating UnitedHealth Group for possible criminal Medicare fraud, people familiar with the matter said.UnitedHealth shares slumped 7% on the news.The healthcare-fraud unit of the Justice Department’s criminal division is overseeing the investigation, the people said, and it has been an active probe since at least last summer. While the exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear, the people said the federal investigation is focusing on the company’s Medicare Advantage business practices.UnitedHealth didn’t respond to written questions Wednesday. A DOJ spokesman declined to comment.The probe adds to a list of government inquiries into the company, including investigations of potential antitrust violations and a civil investigation of its Medicare billing practices, including at its doctors offices.UnitedHealth is seeking to recover from a meltdown of its stock over its financial performance and the sudden replacement this week of its chief executive officer, Andrew Witty, with its chairman and former CEO Stephen Hemsley. UnitedHealth’s stock has declined by almost 50% over the past month.An error occurred. Please try again later.After the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City, physicians offer a sober look at frustrations with the healthcare system in the U.S. Photo illustration: WSJLast year, the company faced a hack of a technology unit that disrupted payments to many U.S. health providers for months, and the killing of its top insurance-arm executive.All of this comes as the Trump administration and Congress look to cut federal health spending, a key source of UnitedHealth’s success. In March, U.S. senators grilled Mehmet Oz, now the Medicare and Medicaid agency head, during his confirmation hearing on the findings of a Wall Street Journal investigation of practices of Medicare Advantage insurers such as UnitedHealth. Oz pledged a crackdown.The criminal investigation could pose an additional challenge to UnitedHealth in the midst of a deep deficit of trust among shareholders, regulators and customers.The Justice Department’s criminal healthcare fraud unit focuses on crimes such as kickbacks that trigger higher Medicare and Medicare payments.The fraud unit has offices in more than a dozen cities, but is managed from DOJ’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Prosecutors are working on the criminal investigation of UnitedHealth from the fraud unit’s office in New York, the people familiar with the investigation said.Andrew Witty, then CEO of UnitedHealth, testified in May 2024 before a Senate committee looking into hacking.Andrew Witty, then CEO of UnitedHealth, testified in May 2024 before a Senate committee looking into hacking. Photo: Kent Nishimura/Getty ImagesFor years, the unit focused on busting doctors, laboratories and other service providers who overbill government health programs and insurers.But the unit has turned its focus to insurers in the Medicare Advantage system, where they now oversee taxpayer-funded benefits for more than half the seniors and disabled people in the broader Medicare program, people familiar with the matter said. Medicare Advantage insurers are paid extra for covering sicker patients, creating an incentive to document diagnoses for patients they cover. In some cases, the Journal’s reporting has shown, questionable diagnoses by UnitedHealth added billions to taxpayers’ costs.The company disputed the Journal’s findings, saying that its analysis was “inaccurate and biased,” and that Medicare Advantage “provides better health outcomes and more affordable healthcare for millions of seniors” than traditional Medicare.UnitedHealth’s latest annual securities filing says the company “has been involved or is currently involved in various governmental investigations, audits and reviews,” and flags involved agencies including the Justice Department. It doesn’t specifically mention the criminal, civil and antitrust probes the Journal has reported.UnitedHealth dismissed a Wall Street Journal report in February revealing the civil Medicare fraud investigation into the company as “misinformation” and said that it wasn’t aware of a “new” probe.A March 11 email, revealed in a lawsuit by a UnitedHealth investor, shows a company lawyer acknowledging that “the government has asked us some questions regarding Optum’s coding practices,” referring to the Medicare billing practices of UnitedHealth’s healthcare services arm, which includes its doctor groups. The email, cautioning a former UnitedHealth employee on the possibility of being contacted by the government, described the investigation as “in the early stages.”A UnitedHealth spokesman said last week that the company stood by its February statement and declined to comment on the email.The DOJ has struggled to make its case in fraud claims against UnitedHealth in the past. In March, a court-appointed special master recommended that a judge effectively dismiss a whistleblower case against UnitedHealth after concluding the government hadn’t presented evidence that patient diagnoses submitted for payment were inaccurate. The judge in the case hasn’t yet ruled on the recommendation.That civil case, brought by a former UnitedHealth employee turned whistleblower in 2011 and joined by the government in 2017, concerned claims that UnitedHealth submitted $2 billion worth of diagnoses recorded by doctors that its own reviewers determined weren’t supported by patients’ medical charts. The DOJ asked the judge to reject the special master’s recommendation. UnitedHealth said the finding showed “there was no evidence to support the DOJ’s claims we were overpaid or that we did anything wrong.”","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"UNH":1.1}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1303,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":1,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}