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Justice Department Launches Antitrust Investigation Of UnitedHealth Group With the ongoing cyberattack at Change Healthcare ongoing, The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. Department of Justice has an active antitrust investigation going on. It centers on certain relationships between the company’s UnitedHealthcare insurance unit and its Optum health services arm.  Optum is the largest service organization associated with an insurer corporately.  Optum’s tentacles are long and hit almost every area of healthcare. Health plans like Cigna and Elevance Health will be watching as they have dreams of having service units as big as Optum.  These service units generate huge revenue and margins as the business is basically unregulated compared with an insurer (which is confined by the minimum medical loss ratio (MLR) requirements in most products) Additional article here: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-launches-antitrust-investigation-into-unitedhealth-wsj-reports-2024-02-27/ #unitedhealthcare #antitrust #optum Link to Article Change Healthcare Cyber Attack Fallout Continues The Change Healthcare cyber attack continues to have