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Inside UnitedHealth’s physician empire
UnitedHealth Group is everywhere. Increasingly, it is starting to feel like the Standard Oil of health care.
Many of us know UnitedHealth is a massive health insurer, pharmacy benefit manager, and payments processor. But as my colleagues Tara Bannow, Casey Ross, Lizzy Lawrence, and I have discovered in a new series, UnitedHealth’s unrivaled leverage over physicians has changed the practice of medicine and allowed UnitedHealth to milk more profit out of the system.
