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DOJ launched probe into UnitedHealth for insider buying and selling and tried to cease monopoly

Editorial Board Published December 5, 2024
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Andrew Witty of UnitedHealthcare, despatched this message to the main insurer’s staff within the hours after his co-CEO Brian Thompson was shot useless exterior a Manhattan lodge on Dec. 4.

A number of senior executives at UnitedHealthcare have been beneath investigation by the Division of Justice, although it isn’t clear if CEO Brian Thompson was a part of that investigation earlier than his homicide.

Thompson was gunned down in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning in what police are calling a focused assault.

There have been experiences that the executives have been accused of insider buying and selling and fraud, and final 12 months the DOJ launched a probe into whether or not the nation’s largest insurer was unfairly limiting rivals and working a monopoly.

Final month, the DOJ together with attorneys generals from Maryland, Illinois, New Jersey and New York filed a lawsuit to dam UnitedHealth Group Included’s proposed $3.3 billion acquisition of rival residence well being and hospice supplier Amedisys Inc.

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UnitedHealthcare signage is displayed exterior a retailer within the Queens borough of New York, on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos / Getty Photos)

The transaction, in line with the grievance, would eradicate competitors between UnitedHealth and Amedisys.

By eliminating the competitors, sufferers who obtain residence well being and hospice companies can be harmed, as would insurers who contract for residence well being companies and nurses who present these companies, in line with the DOJ.

“We are challenging this merger because home health and hospice patients and their families experiencing some of the most difficult moments of their lives deserve affordable, high quality care options,” Lawyer Normal Merrick B. Garland mentioned final month. “The Justice Department will not hesitate to check unlawful consolidation and monopolization in the healthcare market that threatens to harm vulnerable patients, their families, and health care workers.”

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UnitedHealthcare CEO image over shooting scene photo

Each firms view one another as shut rivals for residence well being and hospice companies, and UnitedHealth’s proposal would eradicate that competitors.

UnitedHealth proposed divesting sure amenities to VitalCaring Group to handle a few of the overlaps between UnitedHealth and Amedisys, the DOJ mentioned. However that proposal doesn’t alleviate hurt in over 100 residence well being, hospice and labor markets, the DOJ added, which generate over a billion {dollars} in income annually and serve no less than 200,000 sufferers, whereas using no less than 4,000 nurses.

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“American healthcare is unwell. Unless this $3.3 billion transaction is stopped, UnitedHealth Group will further extend its grip to home health and hospice care, threatening seniors, their families and nurses,” Assistant Lawyer Normal Jonathan Kanter of the Justice Division’s Antitrust Division mentioned.

FOX Enterprise reached out to UnitedHealth however has not but heard again.

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