DOJ to Test UnitedHealth’s ‘Firewall’ With Antitrust Probe
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Mar 01, 2024
The U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ) has opened an antitrust investigation into UnitedHealth Group, according to an internal company document shared with AIS Health and a Wall Street Journal report citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.
Federal regulators are reportedly seeking information about how the Minnesota-based company’s UnitedHealthcare insurance arm interacts with the many provider acquisitions that its Optum division has made in recent years — and how that relationship affects competition.
One health care economist says that while many unanswered questions remain, the result of a different investigation into provider consolidation suggests that the DOJ’s probe of UnitedHealth could end in an antitrust lawsuit.
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