health-services

OptumRx is part of the health-services arm of UnitedHealth.

Megadeal Unites Drug Rivals Anna Wilde Mathews 2011

Indeed, other segments of the Optum health-services portfolio that serve insurers among other businesses have been notching strong gains.

Megadeal Unites Drug Rivals Anna Wilde Mathews 2011

UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s Optum health-services arm recently purchased the operations of Monarch HealthCare, an Irvine, Calif., association that includes some 2,300 doctors, the latest of several doctor groups in which the company has taken ownership stakes.

The Future of U.S. Health Care Anna Wilde Mathews 2011

*** Pharmaceuticals Britain's health-services cost watchdog denied reimbursement for the drug Lucentis—developed by Roche Holding and Novartis—in cases of a diabetic-related eye disease.

Business Watch 2011

Cigna, a lower court in New Haven, Conn., concluded that the global health-services company's SPD failed to disclose that employees' pensions would stop growing after it changed the plan in 1998, and gave them "downright misleading" information in handouts and meetings.

When Benefits Bite Back Ellen E. Schultz 2011

While working on his dissertation, Rick Best, now a health-services scientist for Lockheed Martin, researched stress among nurses who work with veterans, a group that faces high demands with low resources.

How to Lower Your Workplace Stress Ruth Mantell 2012

Optum, UnitedHealth's information- and technology-based health-services business, saw a 20% increase in revenue, while earnings were stable year over year.

UnitedHealth Net Beats Forecasts Dinah Wisenberg Brin 2011

Fortis Healthcare, a leading hospital chain in India, in July bowed out of a bidding war for Singapore health-services company Parkway Holdings Ltd. and sold the approximately 25% stake it held in Singapore's largest hospital chain to Malaysia's sovereign-wealth fund Khazanah Nasional Bhd., which made an offer for Parkway.

Fortis Health Unit Inks Hong Kong Pact Nisha Gopalan 2010

"Meditators are for world peace, and Ron Paul would bring world peace," says Harley Carter, who moved to Fairfield in 1983 from Kansas City and now owns a health-services company with his wife, Mary.

Meditators Back Paul for Peace Neil King Jr. 2012

The purchase of the management arm of Monarch HealthCare, an Irvine, Calif., association that includes approximately 2,300 physicians in a range of specialties, establishes United's Optum health-services unit as a formidable presence in the region.

UnitedHealth Buys California Group of 2,300 Doctors Anna Wilde Mathews 2011