UnitedHealth Group is a diversified health and well-being company dedicated to helping people live healthier lives.
UnitedHealth Group serves more than 73 million individuals worldwide.
We have the largest single proprietary network of physicians, hospitals, health facilities and caregivers in the United States.
Our network includes more than 580,000 physicians and health care professionals, 4900 hospitals and care facilities, approximately 100,000 dental providers and approximately 60,000 pharmacies.
UnitedHealth Group operates in all 50 states and internationally.
Our businesses include: UnitedHealthcare, Ovations, AmeriChoice, OptumHealth, Ingenix and Prescription Solutions.
Our businesses serve the entire spectrum of health care participants: individual consumers, employers, governments, commercial payers and intermediaries, physicians, hospitals, care professionals and pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers.
We help people find the doctor they need with the largest single proprietary network of health care professionals--providing access to health care for 98% of the U.S. population.
More U.S. physicians accept UnitedHealthcare than any other insurance plan. (Source: SK&A Information Services, Inc. study, released October 2007.)
Fortune magazine ranked UnitedHealth Group No. 1 i the industry for innovation for the third year in a row in 2008, and rated UnitedHealth Group as one of the most admired managed care companies in the United States.
UnitedHealth Group ranked No. 14 in the Business Week top 50 companies for 2008.
We’re granting nearly 600 wishes for children and their families by funding $4.5 million over three years to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
We are in the second year of a 10-year, $100 million initiative to support communities in Minnesota.
Seventy-one percent of employees volunteer in their communities either through work or on their own.
We’re getting employees involved with access to an online tool which posts more than 62,000 volunteer opportunities.
We matched dollar-for-dollar employee giving campaign donations to raise more than $10 million for local charities.
The UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation provided nearly 600 grants to families in 2008, worth an estimated $1.7 million, to assist children with medical services not covered by commercial benefit plans.
This year, the United Health Foundation will celebrate the 20th Anniversary of America’s Health Rankings, an annual analysis of national health on a state-by-state basis.
This year United Health Foundation will give $1.5 million in scholarships and other support to students pursuing careers in health.
At UnitedHealth Group, we live our mission to help people live healthier lives. We are proud to be a “National Corporate Team” for the Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk, the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, and the American Heart Association’s Start! Heart Walk. We also provide “UnitedHealth HEROES” grants to help youth ages 5-25 combat pediatric obesity in their community, in collaboration with Youth Service America.