Commercial Health Insurance Gains at UnitedHealth

UnitedHealth offers pharmacy benefit manager services, data services, health care services and other services as well as health coverage.

The company’s UnitedHealthcare health insurance unit is reporting $2.1 billion in operating earnings for the quarter on $48 billion in revenue, compared with $2.7 billion in operating earnings on $48 billion in revenue for the year-earlier quarter.

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The company ended  the year providing or administering health coverage for about 49 million people, or about 0.2% more people than it was covering a year earlier.

Here’s what happened to the number of people with key types of UnitedHealth health coverage:

• Risk-based: 8.6 million (+0.9%)
• Fee-based: 19.2 million (+4.2%)
• TOTAL COMMERCIAL: 27.8 million (+3.1%)
• Medicare Advantage: 5.3 million ( +.6%)
• Medicaid: 5.9 million (-8.5%)
• Medicare Supplement (Standardized): 4.5 million (-1.0%)
• TOTAL PUBLIC AND SENIOR: 15.7 million (-1.7%)
• TOTAL DOMESTIC MEDICAL: 43.4 million (+1.3%)
• International: 5.7 million (-8.0%)
• WORLDWIDE TOTAL : 49.2 million (+0.2%)

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