Datapoint: United to Purchase Major Home and Hospice Provider
April
5
Following Humana’s lead, UnitedHealth Group last week announced its health services arm Optum is set to acquire LHC Group, a large home care and hospice provider, for $5.4 billion. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2022. UnitedHealth currently operates the largest commercial health insurer in the U.S., with 45,814,482 members.
Source: AIS’s Directory of Health Plans
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