{"id":20192,"date":"2025-01-16T16:18:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T17:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20192"},"modified":"2025-01-16T17:29:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T17:29:52","slug":"unitedhealths-revenues-rise-in-first-earnings-report-since-ceos-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20192","title":{"rendered":"UnitedHealth\u2019s Revenues Rise, in First Earnings Report Since CEO\u2019s Killing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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But high medical costs contributed to results that disappointed Wall Street, and the company\u2019s stock fell on the news that it had made less than analysts expected.<\/p>\n

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UnitedHealth 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.<\/p>\n

Revenues 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

The results were the company\u2019s first since Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down in front of a Midtown Manhattan hotel.<\/p>\n

The murder unleashed public outrage aimed at big health insurers, over lack of access to health care and denials of coverage and insurance claims.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Some shareholders have urged UnitedHealth to issue a report on its practices that \u201climit or delay access to health care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andrew Witty, UnitedHealth Group\u2019s chief executive, said on a call with analysts on Thursday that frustrations about claims, including delays in receiving care and coverage, were \u201ckey areas for us to work hard at to improve.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But high medical costs contributed to results that disappointed Wall Street, and the company\u2019s stock fell on the news that it had made less than analysts expected.UnitedHealth 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.Revenues 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\u2019s 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.The results were the company\u2019s first since Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down in front of a Midtown Manhattan hotel.The murder unleashed public outrage aimed at big health insurers, over lack of access to health care and denials of coverage and insurance claims.Some shareholders have urged UnitedHealth to issue a report on its practices that \u201climit or delay access to health care.\u201dAndrew Witty, UnitedHealth Group\u2019s chief executive, said on a call with analysts on Thursday that frustrations about claims, including delays in receiving care and coverage, were \u201ckey areas for us to work hard at to improve.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20194,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20195,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20192\/revisions\/20195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}