America's typically predictable health insurance industry has been exciting in ways that investors hardly appreciate. In a ...

Stephen Hemsley returns to the top spot at a UnitedHealth Group that looks very different from the one he helmed almost a decade ago and faces trouble bubbling up in its Optum healthcare services ...

UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty is stepping down for personal reasons and the nation's largest health insurer suspended its ...

UnitedHealth's stock has tumbled 45.8% in 2025, enough to make it the S&P 500's worst performer this year. In comparison, the Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF XLV has lost 5.2% this year and the S&P ...

Can prescription benefit managers, or PBMs, be eliminated from the U.S. drug pricing process? Seeking Alpha analysts weigh in. Read more here.

The governor said his proposal to regulate pharmacy benefit managers, intermediaries that critics say drive up drug costs, ...

President Trump said Sunday he will sign an executive order Monday to cap prescription drug and pharmaceutical prices at the ...

AARP also calls on Congress to protect and strengthen Medicare’s ability to negotiate lower drug prices for millions of older ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday that he will seek to regulate prescription drug managers he blames for driving up costs ...

UnitedHealth suspended its 2025 outlook as care activity and Medicare Advantage costs exceeded expectations. Hemsley, former CEO from 2006–2017, resumes the role and remains board chairman amid ...

On Tuesday the company withdrew that financial forecast entirely, saying that medical costs from new Medicare Advantage members were higher ... coverage and a growing Optum segment that delivers ...