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DESCRIPTION:Healthcare Not Prisons\n\nJoin a national day of action on 60th anniversary 
 of Medicare. The massive cuts in medicaid and privatization of medicare 
 will mean that millions of people in California and throughout the country 
 will be shut off from healthcare. We will be have a rally and press 
 conference at Pier 33 and Alcatraz Tours to protest Trump's plan to return 
 Alcatraz to be a functioning prison. He plans to spend hundreds of millions 
 to turn this major tourist site for a prison. The recently passed Trump 
 bill will provide $130 billion for more ICE and prisons throughout the 
 country.\nAt the same time he is cutting a trillion dollars from 
 healthcare.\nWe will rally at Harry Bridges Plaza next to the Ferry 
 Building and will speak out and education about the need for national 
 single payer to get rid of the control of the insurance companies and 
 billionaires from control of this industry.\n\nRevealed: UnitedHealth 
 secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers-Killing For 
 Profits\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/21/unitedhealth-nursing-homes-payments-hospital-transfers\nA 
 Guardian investigation finds insurer quietly paid facilities that helped it 
 gain Medicare enrollees and reduce hospitalizations. Whistleblowers allege 
 harm to residents\nUS nursing home employees: do you have information about 
 UnitedHealth’s nursing home practices?\nGeorge Joseph\nWed 21 May 2025 
 12.00 CEST\n\nUnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest healthcare 
 conglomerate, has secretly paid nursing homes thousands in bonuses to help 
 slash hospital transfers for ailing residents – part of a series of 
 cost-cutting tactics that has saved the company millions, but at times 
 risked residents’ health, a Guardian investigation has found.\n\nThose 
 secret bonuses have been paid out as part of a UnitedHealth program that 
 stations the company’s own medical teams in nursing homes and pushes them 
 to cut care expenses for residents covered by the insurance giant.\n\nIn 
 several cases identified by the Guardian, nursing home residents who needed 
 immediate hospital care under the program failed to receive it, after 
 interventions from UnitedHealth staffers. At least one lived with permanent 
 brain damage following his delayed transfer, according to a confidential 
 nursing home incident log, recordings and photo evidence.\n\na sign on a 
 building reads 'UnitedHealthcare'\nUnitedHealth Group shares plunge after 
 report of Medicare fraud inquiry\nRead more\n“No one is truly 
 investigating when a patient suffers harm. Absolutely no one,” said one 
 current UnitedHealth nurse practitioner who recently filed a congressional 
 complaint about the nursing home program. “These incidents are hidden, 
 downplayed and minimized. The sense is: ‘Well, they’re medically frail, 
 and no one lives for ever.’”\n\nThe Guardian’s investigation is based 
 on thousands of confidential corporate and patient records obtained through 
 sources, public records requests and court files, interviews with more than 
 20 current and former UnitedHealth and nursing home employees, and two 
 whistleblower declarations submitted to Congress this month through the 
 non-profit legal group Whistleblower Aid.\n\nThe documents and sources 
 provide a never-before-seen window into the company’s successful effort 
 to insert itself into the day-to-day operations of nearly 2,000 nursing 
 homes in small towns and urban commercial strips across the nation – an 
 approach which has helped UnitedHealth secure a vast stream of federal 
 dollars from Medicare Advantage plans that cover more than 55,000 long-term 
 nursing home residents.\n\nUnitedHealth said the suggestion that its 
 employees have prevented hospital transfers “is verifiably false”. It 
 said its bonus payments to nursing homes help prevent unnecessary 
 hospitalizations that are costly and dangerous to patients and that its 
 partnerships with nursing homes improve health outcomes.\n\nUnder Medicare 
 Advantage, insurers collect lump sums from the federal government to cover 
 seniors’ care. But the less insurers spend on care, the more they have 
 for potential profit – an opportunity that UnitedHealth higher-ups have 
 systematically sought to exploit when it comes to long-term nursing home 
 residents.\n\nTo reduce residents’ hospital visits, UnitedHealth has 
 offered nursing homes an array of financial sweeteners that sounded more 
 like they came from stockbrokers than medical professionals.\n\nOver the 
 past seven years, the company has shelled out “Premium Dividend” and 
 “Shared Savings” payments that boosted nursing homes’ bottom lines. 
 Through its “Quality and Shared Risk” program, UnitedHealth offered an 
 even bigger cut to nursing homes that drove down medical spending, but 
 threatened to claw back money from those that didn’t, according to former 
 employees and internal corporate documents.\n\nOne term that UnitedHealth 
 executives obsessed over was “admits per thousand” – APK for short. 
 It was a measure of the rate that nursing homes sent their residents to the 
 hospital. Under the “Premium Dividend” program, a low APK qualified a 
 nursing home for the various bonus payments the insurer offered. A high APK 
 meant that a nursing home received nothing.\n\n“APK drove everything,” 
 said one former national UnitedHealth executive who worked on the 
 initiative with nursing homes in more than two dozen states and spoke about 
 the confidential contracts on the condition of anonymity. “You gain 
 profitability by denying care, and when profitability suffers for the 
 shareholders, that’s when people get crazy and do things that are not 
 appropriate.”\n\n protesters hold signs in support of luigi 
 mangione\nView image in fullscreen\nSupporters of Luigi Mangione outside 
 Manhattan criminal court as he appeared for his hearing on state murder and 
 terrorism charges on 21 February. Photograph: Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu/Getty 
 Images\nThe revelations come at a time of crisis for UnitedHealth, which 
 became the subject of public outrage after December’s fatal shooting of 
 Brian Thompson, a top executive at the company, and the arrest of a suspect 
 named Luigi Mangione.\n\nThe killing reignited concerns over the healthcare 
 giant’s Medicare windfalls and denials of care to patients. But a full 
 accounting of UnitedHealth’s cost-cutting push inside nursing homes has 
 not previously surfaced amid government and media investigations into the 
 company’s conduct.\n\nCost-cutting tactics\nThe secret bonuses were just 
 one of many maneuvers UnitedHealth devised to track and cut expenses in its 
 nursing home initiative.\n\nInternal emails show, for example, that 
 UnitedHealth supervisors gave their teams “budgets” showing how many 
 hospital admissions they had “left” to use up on nursing home 
 patients.\n\nThe company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller 
 numbers of patients with “do not resuscitate” – or DNR – and “do 
 not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in 
 line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital 
 stays.\n\nTwo current and three former UnitedHealth nurse practitioners 
 told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to 
 persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their “code status” to 
 DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available 
 treatments be used to keep them alive.\n\n text from documents\nView image 
 in fullscreen\n“They’re pretending to make it look like it’s in the 
 best interest of the member,” another current UnitedHealth nurse 
 practitioner said. “But it’s really not.”\n\nIn response to 
 questions, UnitedHealth said its nursing home initiative improves care for 
 older residents by providing “on-site nurse practitioners, tailored care 
 plans for chronic conditions, and enhanced communication between staff, 
 families and providers”.\n\nThe company denied that it had prevented 
 hospital transfers or inappropriately pushed patients to change their code 
 status to DNR.\n\nThe program’s cost-cutting schemes were only possible 
 because of the sprawling nature of UnitedHealth, a $300bn-plus conglomerate 
 which has grown into one of the world’s biggest companies thanks to its 
 relentless efforts to embed itself into nearly every corner of the 
 healthcare industry. UnitedHealth’s insurance arm covers millions more 
 Medicare Advantage seniors than any of its rivals, and another subsidiary, 
 Optum, employs or affiliates with tens of thousands of doctors and nurse 
 practitioners.\n\nWhen nursing homes under the bonus program allowed 
 medical teams from one UnitedHealth subsidiary to work in their facilities, 
 they allowed the corporate giant to influence critical healthcare decisions 
 for residents, which had a direct impact on the insurance side of its 
 business.\n\na sign on a building reads 'UnitedHealthcare'\nUS justice 
 department opens civil fraud investigation into UnitedHealthcare\nRead 
 more\nThe Guardian’s reporting also found that the program offered 
 nursing homes even larger sums for every senior enrolled in the insurer’s 
 offerings for long-term nursing home residents, which are called 
 “Institutional Special Needs Plans”. In some cases, these payments 
 incentivized nursing homes to leak confidential resident records to 
 UnitedHealth sales teams so they could directly solicit elderly residents 
 and their families, according to a whistleblower lawsuit currently being 
 fought in federal court in Georgia as well as internal nursing home records 
 and interviews with more than a dozen current and former nursing home 
 employees and UnitedHealth salespeople.\n\nOne former UnitedHealth employee 
 in Georgia admitted to the Guardian that she got nursing home staff to leak 
 her confidential resident records then backdated permission-to-contact 
 forms to circumvent federal rules meant to protect seniors from aggressive 
 sales pitches. The employee was fired after failing to meet her sales 
 quota, according to a former colleague.\n\nAfter one nursing home near 
 Savannah, Georgia, disclosed confidential patient records to UnitedHealth, 
 families complained that their loved ones had been shifted on to the 
 company’s Medicare Advantage plan even though they lacked the cognitive 
 ability to make such decisions, according to a former UnitedHealth 
 executive, federal court filings in Georgia and leaked patient files 
 reviewed by the Guardian.\n\nAll told, the various payments that came with 
 increasing UnitedHealth enrollments and minimizing medical expenses could 
 add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars annually for a typical midsize 
 nursing home, sources said.\n\nBut the nursing home residents, who had 
 signed up for UnitedHealth’s Medicare Advantage program and whose federal 
 dollars were financing the program, did not know about the confidential 
 incentive payments and anti-hospitalization tactics affecting their 
 care.\n\nUnitedHealth declined to answer questions about how much it has 
 paid out to nursing homes through the secret contract clauses. The company 
 said its payments incentivize high-quality outcomes for residents and 
 reward efforts that lead to improved care.\nMaxwell Ollivant, a former 
 UnitedHealth nurse practitioner, filed a congressional declaration this 
 month with help from Whistleblower Aid, asking the federal government to 
 hold the healthcare giant accountable.\n\nIn an interview with the Guardian 
 – his first-ever public comment on the nursing home initiative – 
 Ollivant urged lawmakers to make sure that UnitedHealth was “not skimping 
 out on care” and that patients were not “signing up for a service and 
 not receiving the service when the time comes”.\n\nOllivant previously 
 filed a lawsuit in federal court in Washington state accusing UnitedHealth 
 of withholding necessary services to nursing home residents, making their 
 requests for Medicare payments violations of the federal False Claims Act. 
 In 2023, the nurse practitioner dropped the suit after the Department of 
 Justice declined to intervene. His congressional declaration provides new 
 details of his experience.\n\nIn a statement, UnitedHealth said Ollivant 
 “lacks both the necessary data and expertise” to assess the 
 effectiveness of its programs. “We stand firmly behind the integrity of 
 our programs, which consistently receive high satisfaction ratings from our 
 members,” it said.\n\nDubious diagnoses, delayed 
 hospitalizations\nUnitedHealth pitches its nursing home initiative as a 
 positive for long-term residents. It provides them access to UnitedHealth 
 nurse practitioners via in-person visits as well as to remote medical 
 professionals who provide guidance to facility nurses at night and on 
 weekends.\n\nThis “enhanced care coordination”, as the company puts it, 
 is supposed to help reduce unnecessary hospitalizations, which are costly 
 for UnitedHealth and can expose patients to additional complications.\n\nIn 
 several cases identified by the Guardian, the company’s insertion of 
 itself into nursing home emergency protocols helped delay or avert 
 transfers for patients who could have benefited from immediate hospital 
 care.\n\nUnitedHealthcare building in Phoenix, Arizona.\nView image in 
 fullscreen\nUnitedHealthcare building in Phoenix, Arizona. Composite: 
 Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images\n\nIn one incident from 2019, a remote 
 UnitedHealth medical provider working for the program received a report 
 shortly after midnight about a nursing home resident in Renton, Washington, 
 who was slurring her words and unable to move her arm – textbook stroke 
 symptoms.\n\nIn stroke cases, every minute counts. When blood flow to the 
 brain is blocked or interrupted, brain cells quickly die. The sooner 
 patients get to the hospital, the better the chance doctors have to prevent 
 long-term neurological damage.\n\nIn this case, the nurse at her nursing 
 home reported to UnitedHealth that it looked like a stroke, according to an 
 incident log. But instead of greenlighting an immediate hospitalization for 
 a possible stroke, the remote UnitedHealth employee suggested the resident 
 might be suffering from a less serious condition called a transient 
 ischemic attack (TIA), a temporary loss of brain function caused by blood 
 flow blockage.\n\nThe remote employee then advised the nurse to run a blood 
 test and update the company again in four hours, confidential UnitedHealth 
 records show.\n\nThe patient’s independent primary care doctor told the 
 Guardian she was never informed of this failure to transfer her 
 patient.\n\n“I would have wanted them to contact me right away so that I 
 could have made a decision,” she said, speaking on the condition of 
 anonymity to discuss sensitive patient matters. “The time frame 
 matters.”\n\nThe independent doctor also said she was disturbed by the 
 remote UnitedHealth employee’s working diagnosis, which called for ruling 
 out a TIA, rather than a stroke. The remote employee was an early-career 
 nurse practitioner, not a physician.\n\n“Their diagnosis says TIA, [but] 
 nobody can say that so early,” the patient’s doctor said.\n\nIn another 
 incident that year, a nursing home nurse in Puyallup, Washington, delayed 
 hospitalizing a resident also exhibiting potential stroke symptoms because 
 of UnitedHealth protocols that pushed facility staff to wait for guidance 
 from the company.\n\nAccording to confidential nursing home records 
 obtained by the Guardian, the nurse phoned a remote UnitedHealth provider, 
 who was unsure about what to do and failed to call for an immediate 
 transfer. Tired of waiting for a callback, the nurse finally bypassed the 
 remote provider and called an independent doctor, who ordered the patient 
 to be transferred.\n\nBut the delay meant that about an hour passed before 
 the resident was actually taken to the hospital, which was only a few 
 minutes away from his facility.\n\nAfter the belated hospitalization, the 
 patient suffered permanent verbal slurring and facial droop on the right 
 side of his face, audio recordings and photos obtained by the Guardian 
 show.\n\nCiting confidentiality rules, UnitedHealth declined to comment on 
 the specific patient cases. But the company noted that it does not prevent 
 nursing homes themselves from contacting residents’ independent doctors, 
 and that hospitalization decisions can depend on many factors including a 
 patient’s goals of care, symptoms and the input of their care 
 team.\n\nUnitedHealth’s pressure on nursing home staff\nUnitedHealth 
 denied that its employees prevented hospital transfers and said it was the 
 responsibility of the treating physician and the facility to decide on a 
 patient’s best course of care.\n\nBut in practice, the company’s 
 tactics put pressure on facility nurses to turn over patient care decisions 
 to UnitedHealth staffers, according to internal documents and interviews 
 with current and former UnitedHealth medical providers.\n\n“There was 
 never any caveat, given, like, ‘It’s up to you all,’” said one 
 former UnitedHealth doctor involved in the program. Nurses at the long-term 
 care facilities “were calling the nurse practitioner or on-call provider 
 who was responsible. The implication was that they were calling for advice 
 that was meant to be followed.”\n\n“A lot of times the nurses want to 
 send people out and we have to go in and try to stop it,” said another 
 current UnitedHealth nurse practitioner, who also spoke to the Guardian 
 anonymously citing fears of retaliation. “And if we don’t, it’s on 
 us. They take us out on to the carpet.”\n\nIn one patient case identified 
 by the Guardian, nursing home staff sent a resident to the hospital because 
 she was found unresponsive, drooling and with a “slant to the side” – 
 possible stroke symptoms. She was admitted to the intensive care unit for a 
 brain bleed, according to a UnitedHealth email reviewed by the 
 Guardian.\n\nBut after the incident, instead of praising the facility team 
 for the prompt hospitalization, a UnitedHealth manager alerted her 
 subordinates that the facility team had bypassed the company’s protocol, 
 failing to contact UnitedHealth’s remote on-call team first to receive 
 guidance.\n\nThe manager met with the nursing home’s director of nursing 
 services, and scheduled training to re-educate the facility’s nurses, the 
 email shows.\n\nUnitedHealth notes that unnecessary hospitalizations can 
 expose patients to pressure injuries, falls and other complications. In 
 response to questions from the Guardian, UnitedHealth pointed to one 2019 
 study which heralded the program’s success in reducing hospitalizations 
 and noted the potential harms of hospital care.\n\nBut in an interview with 
 the Guardian, Ollivant, the former UnitedHealth nurse practitioner turned 
 whistleblower, argued such analyses fail to account for the negative health 
 outcomes that patients suffer from missing hospital care.\n\n“How many of 
 those people were further harmed because they never received the care that 
 they needed?” he said. “When you just look at the percentage reductions 
 in hospitalizations, it doesn’t say anything about patient 
 outcomes.”\n\nA plan of care, an ailing patient\nKevin Keep never knew 
 – until the Guardian called him last month and told him – that his 
 father had suffered a possible stroke at a nursing home that partnered with 
 UnitedHealth.\n\nOn the evening of 23 February 2019, a UnitedHealth remote 
 employee received a report about Keep’s father, Donald Keep, a retired 
 auto mechanic with dementia and an amputated leg living at a nursing home 
 in Bremerton, Washington.\n\n man on his wedding day\nView image in 
 fullscreen\nDonald Keep on his wedding day. Photograph: Kevin Keep\nOn that 
 day, Keep was experiencing forgetfulness and drooping on the right side of 
 his face – “possible stroke symptoms”, according to a confidential 
 UnitedHealth incident log.\n\nBut instead of sending the octogenarian 
 straight to the hospital, the remote employee referred to a plan of care 
 that called for bloodwork and giving Keep an aspirin – a course of action 
 which one former UnitedHealth doctor said “doesn’t make sense”, given 
 the risk of brain damage.\n\n“That’s not useful when it might be a 
 stroke,” said the doctor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to 
 comment on Keep’s confidential patient records that he reviewed at the 
 request of the Guardian. “What they really need is a physical exam and an 
 MRI of the brain, and it needs to be done expeditiously.”\n\nThe incident 
 log, which doesn’t mention a hospital transfer, suggests that the 
 UnitedHealth team didn’t treat the case with the urgency that a possible 
 stroke would require.\n\nKeep’s symptoms were logged shortly before 10pm 
 on a Saturday night. The next afternoon, a UnitedHealth employee emailed 
 the company’s nurse practitioners a follow-up note to look into what was 
 wrong with Keep.\n\nThe email lists the proposed work-up as being for a 
 “TIA” – the transient, less serious neurological condition, not a 
 stroke.\n\nAs of 4pm on that Sunday, more than 18 hours after Keep was 
 found with his face drooping, the work-up was still listed as 
 “pending”.\n\nCiting patient confidentiality, UnitedHealth did not 
 respond to an inquiry about whether the retiree was ever sent to the 
 hospital.\n\nHannah Recht contributed data reporting\nTomorrow, part two of 
 UnitedHealth investigation: A tale of three 
 whistleblowers\n\nUnitedHealth’s Revenues Rise, in First Earnings Report 
 Since C.E.O.’s Killing\nRevenues for UnitedHealth Group amounted to 
 $100.8 billion for the fourth quarter\nBut high medical costs contributed 
 to results that disappointed Wall Street, and the company’s stock fell on 
 the news that it had made less than analysts 
 expected.\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/health/unitedhealth-earnings-report-ceo-murder.html?searchResultPosition=1\n\nAn 
 exterior view of a building, with a large white sign in the foreground that 
 reads "UnitedHealthcare."\nUnitedHealth Group’s campus in Minnetonka, 
 Minn. Earnings reported Thursday were the company’s first since its chief 
 executive was killed.Credit...Jim Mone/Associated Press\nDanielle 
 Kaye.png\nBy Danielle Kaye\nJan. 16, 2025\nUnitedHealth Group reported on 
 Thursday that it earned less than expected this past quarter, citing higher 
 medical costs and pressure on its insurance division at a time when the 
 company is still reeling from the shocking murder of a top executive last 
 month.\n\nRevenues for UnitedHealth Group amounted to $100.8 billion for 
 the fourth quarter, below what analysts had predicted but still 6.8 percent 
 higher than in the same quarter the year before. The company’s full-year 
 revenue for 2024 rose to $400.3 billion. For UnitedHealthcare, the 
 insurance division, full-year revenue increased to $298.2 billion, up 6 
 percent from 2023.\n\nThe results were the company’s first since Brian 
 Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down in front 
 of a Midtown Manhattan hotel.\n\nThe murder unleashed public outrage aimed 
 at big health insurers, over lack of access to health care and denials of 
 coverage and insurance claims.\n\nSome shareholders have urged UnitedHealth 
 to issue a report on its practices that “limit or delay access to health 
 care.”\n\nAndrew Witty, UnitedHealth Group’s chief executive, said on a 
 call with analysts on Thursday that frustrations about claims, including 
 delays in receiving care and coverage, were “key areas for us to work 
 hard at to improve.”\n\nA successor to Mr. Thompson has not been named 
 yet. Mr. Witty did not share details about filling the post, nor did he 
 directly address the recent shareholder campaign.\n\nBut he and other 
 executives discussed the loss of Mr. Thompson at the top of the 
 call.\n\n“He devoted his time to helping make the health system work 
 better for all of the people we’re privileged to serve,” Mr. Witty 
 said.\n\nUnitedHealth’s results, which disappointed Wall Street, in many 
 ways reflected broader trends and lingering issues for the industry. For 
 several quarters, U.S. health insurers have taken hits to their earnings 
 from high medical expenses and a tightening of government payment 
 policies.\n\nJohn Rex, the company’s chief financial officer, pointed to 
 cutbacks in government rates in the payment system for Medicare Advantage 
 program, the private insurance arm of the federal coverage for people 65 
 and over. UnitedHealth has substantial business in these Medicare private 
 plans.\n\nMedicare Advantage performance has declined throughout the 
 industry recently, partly because of regulatory changes meant to prevent 
 overcharging and following increased health spending among some older 
 populations.\n\nMr. Witty also said there were costs associated with 
 changes in Medicaid, the federal-state insurance program for the 
 poor.\n\nThe company’s medical cost ratio, a measure of the cost of 
 providing care, came in higher than expected in the most recent quarter, 
 which could add fuel to investors’ concerns that increased costs for 
 delivery of care might linger, said John Boylan, an analyst at Edward 
 Jones, an investment firm.\n\nUnitedHealth, however, kept its full-year 
 guidance for 2025 intact, unaltered by recent pressure. Analysts at Morgan 
 Stanley said in a research note that the company had set “reasonably 
 prudent targets” for this year.\n\n\n“Overall, our view is that United 
 is well positioned to navigate the evolving health care landscape due to 
 its diversified business model,” Mr. Boylan said.\n\nUnitedHealth’s 
 stock fell 6 percent on Thursday as investors digested the 
 weaker-than-expected results. UnitedHealth’s results, often seen as a 
 bellwether for performance across the industry, pushed down shares of its 
 rivals, including CVS Health, which is the parent of the insurer 
 Aetna.\n\nUnitedHealth Group also owns Optum Rx, one of the country’s 
 largest pharmacy benefit managers, which employers and government programs 
 hire to oversee their prescription-drug benefits.\n\nOptum Rx has faced 
 scrutiny from regulators over concerns that it has raised drug prices, 
 prioritizing its own interests above those of patients, employers and 
 taxpayers. Just this week, the Federal Trade Commission released a report 
 detailing how P.B.M.s could be inflating drug costs.\n\nThe agency 
 criticized Optum Rx and two other major benefit managers — CVS Health’s 
 Caremark and Cigna’s Express Scripts — for raising prices on generic 
 drugs for cancer, heart disease and other illnesses as high as 1,000 
 percent of national average costs.\n\nMr. Witty, the UnitedHealth Group 
 chief executive, defended Optum’s practices, stressing that 98 percent of 
 the rebates were passed to customers. By 2028, he said, all rebates would 
 be passed on. Drug prices in the United States, Mr. Witty argued, are “de 
 novo set too high relative to any other price in the world,” and shifted 
 the blame to drug companies.\n\n“The P.B.M. acts on behalf of the 
 ultimate payer — the employer, the union, the state,” Mr. Witty told 
 analysts.\n\nMr. Witty did not address investigations by the Justice 
 Department or lawsuits seeking to block its proposed acquisition of 
 Amedsys, a large home care and hospice company.\n\nBeyond rising medical 
 costs and increasing use of health care services, UnitedHealth executives 
 pointed to the widespread ransomware attack in 2024 that weighed on the 
 company’s full-year profits. The cyberattack forced the shutdown of the 
 company’s sprawling billing and payment system, Change Healthcare. The 
 company has estimated that the data breach of health and privacy 
 information affected more than 100 million people, and said this week that 
 a review of personal information involved in the incident was 
 “substantially complete.”\n\nLuigi Mangione, 26, has been charged with 
 multiple state and federal counts of murder as well as weapons and stalking 
 offenses. He has pleaded not guilty.\n\nUnitedHealth and the police have 
 said that neither he nor his parents had medical insurance through 
 UnitedHealth.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/07/12/18877944.php
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