DOJ Probe of UnitedHealth Could Spawn Optum Spinoffs, SEC Review of Stock Sales
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May 10, 2024
A group of lawmakers is urging federal regulators to investigate UnitedHealth executives’ sale of company stock right after learning that the health care firm was the target of a Dept. of Justice (DOJ) investigation concerning its provider-acquisition spree. As for the investigation itself, one antitrust lawyer says it could take years before the DOJ files a case — but if it does, regulators could try to force the health care giant to spin off all or part of its Optum division.
Meanwhile, the DOJ’s antitrust division on May 9 announced a new Task Force on Health Care Monopolies and Collusion, which it said will “guide the division’s enforcement strategy and policy approach in health care, including by facilitating policy advocacy, investigations and, where warranted, civil and criminal enforcement in health care markets.” Some of the competition concerns the task force will examine include “issues regarding payer-provider consolidation” and “serial acquisitions.”
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