UnitedHealth Group is an innovative leader in the health and well-being industry, serving approximately 65 million Americans. Through our family of companies, we contribute outstanding clinical insight with consumer-friendly services and advanced technology to help people achieve optimal health.
Since its inception, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliated companies have led the marketplace by introducing key innovations that make health care services more accessible and affordable for customers, improve the quality and coordination of health care services, and help individuals and their physicians make more informed health care decisions.
Time Line of Selected Corporate Highlights and Innovations
1974
Charter Med Incorporated is founded by a group of physicians and other health care professionals who want to expand health coverage options for consumers.
1977
United HealthCare Corporation is created and acquires Charter Med Incorporated.
1979
United HealthCare Corporation introduces the first network-based health plan for seniors and participates in the earliest experiments with offering private-market alternatives for Medicare.
1984
United HealthCare Corporation becomes a publicly traded company.
1988
United HealthCare incorporates the first pharmacy benefits management company, Diversified Pharmaceutical Services Inc.
1989
William W. McGuire, M.D., assumes leadership of the company. Annual revenues are just over $400 million.
1992
United HealthCare is the first company to produce a Report Card on health care access, quality and cost measures.
1994
Diversified Pharmaceutical Services Inc. is sold to SmithKline Beecham Corporation for $2.3 billion.
1995
The company acquires The MetraHealth Companies Inc. for $1.65 billion. MetraHealth is a privately held company that was formed by combining the group health care operations of The Travelers Insurance Company and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
1996
The company's patented artificial intelligence system AdjudiPro®, which is entered into the permanent research collection of the Smithsonian Institution, is awarded the CIO Enterprise Value Award.
1998
United HealthCare Corporation becomes known as UnitedHealth Group and launches a strategic realignment into independent but strategically linked business segments — UnitedHealthcare, Ovations, Uniprise, Specialized Care Services and Ingenix.
The first release of Clinical Profiles(sm) takes place. Clinical Profiles, produced by Ingenix, provides network physicians with data comparing their clinical practices to nationally accepted benchmarks for care.
1999
UnitedHealthcare introduces Care Coordination(sm), which eliminates prior authorizations and channels those resources into consumer and physician outreach for people who will benefit most from coordinating fragmented care delivery resources.
2000
UnitedHealthcare launches myuhc.com®, which enables individual customers to order ID cards, check the status of claims, and access relevant health information online.
2001
UnitedHealthcare uses Web-enabled technology to simplify and improve service for physicians, enabling them to check benefit eligibility for patients and submit and review claims. The company also launches a Web-based distribution portal to serve small business brokers.
2002
Ingenix continues to introduce new knowledge and information products - including Parallax i™, iCES™ and the Galaxy clinical database - that help clients gain clinical and financial insights and improve the quality of health care delivery and administration.
2003
Uniprise introduces electronic medical ID cards that use magnetic stripe technology and the MasterCard® system and network to make it easy to verify patient eligibility and benefits in seconds.
2004
UnitedHealth Group launches iPlan® HSA, a product that integrates a high-deductible health plan with a health savings account, for employer groups. The product is offered through the company's UnitedHealthcare and Uniprise businesses. Golden Rule, a subsidiary of UnitedHealthcare, offers HSAs to individuals.
2005
Ingenix is selected by the FDA for drug safety monitoring and support. The Ingenix program includes extensive data resources and analytic capabilities to help the FDA accelerate the identification and assessment of issues and potential risks related to pharmaceutical agents.
The UnitedHealth Group family of companies strives to help people achieve better health based on four fundamental principles:
We believe in helping people by facilitating access to fragmented services. We have directed our resources into improved decision-making, facilitating care delivery and advancing health outcomes.
We believe in choice and in access to broad, diverse and fully qualified care providers and resources. We offer a full range of option-rich services that enable customers to make choices based on their unique needs.
We believe in simplifying the health care experience. We have designed simpler, more understandable products and services and have used advanced technology to speed health care interactions, simplify administration, advance information and lower costs.
We believe in safe and fact-based medicine. Our Ingenix business is fully devoted to gathering and sharing knowledge and information about health care quality and delivery. Across all of our businesses, we strive to advance appropriate care, best practices and patient safety based on fact and scientific evidence.
At UnitedHealth Group, we can't change the world fast enough. Entrepreneurial in spirit, principled in thinking and innovative in action; our employees are dedicated to performance excellence.
UnitedHealth Group's environment is demanding, challenging and fast-paced. Additionally, due to the dynamic environment in which we operate, employees' jobs are constantly changing. No one said changing the world was easy.
So, why do people stay here?
Everyone has his or her own reasons. Some people like the idea of working for a winning team. Others like the opportunities for career mobility. Still others just like helping to make the world a healthier place.
Whatever their reasons, people do stay at UnitedHealth Group — for 10 years, 15 years — even longer. That, more than anything else we can say, is a testament to the strength of our culture.
Although our employees have diverse cultural backgrounds, beliefs and lifestyles, they have one thing in common — their ability to excel.
UnitedHealth Group's employees are assigned and promoted based on their skills, talent and performance. Through training, mentoring programs and our emphasis on a team environment, we strive to give every employee the opportunity to realize his or her full potential.
We not only respect diversity; we believe diverse viewpoints are assets. UnitedHealth Group depends on our employees' broad range of talent, personalities and ideas to help us generate the innovations of tomorrow.
"We have people of all cultures working here, but with the constant promotion of the team environment, everyone gets along and has the opportunity to work to the best of their ability."
Barbara Cox
Administrative Assistant
UnitedHealthcare, GSO COSMOS Site
UnitedHealth Group is made up of several businesses that provide unique health and well-being services. This structure gives our employees the opportunity to make an impact on a small organization and the flexibility to change careers without ever leaving our company.
Read more about our companies and find out where you might fit:
UnitedHealth Group: Our compact and efficient corporate organization.
UnitedHealth Group Europe: supports European public health systems in their efforts to improve patient care through its European company established in May 2004. The company, led by a British management team, works in partnership with health agencies, clinicians and patients to develop innovative tools and services to support the provision of care.
UnitedHealthcare:
UnitedHealthcare offers consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services for individuals and small and mid-sized employers. UnitedHealthcare also provides extensive online services for employers, brokers, physician offices and consumers.
Ovations:
Ovations, through its family of companies, provides health and well-being programs and services tailored to the unique needs of people age 50 and older.
Specifically, Ovations provides insurance products and health and well-being products and services for AARP Health Care Options, including Medicare supplement and group hospital insurance plans, prescription drug discount programs and easy access to health and well-being products and prescription drugs.
• Through Evercare, Ovations offers complete, individualized care planning and facilitation for aging, vulnerable and chronically ill individuals who live on their own, in community-based settings or assisted-living facilities.
Uniprise: Uniprise is the leading provider of benefit delivery and service solutions for large employers and intermediaries - providing customers with access to health and well-being services, large-scale transaction processing services and technology-based service support. Uniprise consists of three distinct but interrelated businesses:
• Uniprise Strategic Solutions -- providing benefits delivery and service solutions for multi-location employers with more than 5,000 employees, which can be tailored to each customer's specific needs.
• Definity Health -- powering consumer-driven health and consumer activation services delivered to employer clients across UnitedHealth Group's businesses.
• Exante Financial Services -- leading the convergence of health care and financial services so consumers can better, and more easily, manage all of their health-related finances.
Specialized Care Services:
Specialized Care Services provides specialized benefits, services and resources through an expanding portfolio of subsidiary companies.
• ACN Group comprises several businesses that connect people to proven solutions to help them stay well, get well or live with life's challenges.
• Dental Benefit Providers is a progressive and flexible dental benefits company that offers superior customer and claims service and a national network of dentists that provides access to affordable, high quality care.
• LifeEra offers seamlessly integrated employee assistance and work/life programs that help employees improve their quality of life at home and work.
• National Benefit Resources provides excess risk insurance and value added products through independent third party administrators, brokers and consultants.
• Optum® delivers integrated, cohesive personal health management solutions, including consumer health information, education, and decision support services, to help individuals manage their health.
• Spectera delivers affordable, innovative vision care solutions to leading employers through the nation's most accessible, diversified vision care network.
• Unimerica Workplace Benefits delivers group and voluntary products, including life, disability, dental, stop-loss, and critical illness insurance for employers and their employees.
• United Behavioral Health provides clinically effective, evidence-based behavioral health products and services that improve people's total health and their ability to lead productive lives.
• United Resource Networks provides specialized solutions for complex medical conditions, including Centers of Excellence networks and clinical services to support the management of patients in need of transplantation and those with complex cancers, congenital heart disease and kidney disease. U.R.N. also provides services related to fertility treatments, healthy pregnancy and neonatal intensive care.
Ingenix:
Ingenix, Inc. is an international leader in health care data analysis and application. In serving health insurers and payers, health care providers, large employers, pharmaceutical companies and government entities, we provide a broad portfolio of data tools, publications, research and consulting services.
• Data and Information Services -- Database and data management services, software products, publications and consulting services to help employers, health insurers, health care buyers, physicians and other health care providers, and pharmaceutical companies improve health care delivery and operations.
• Drug Development and Marketing Services -- Clinical research services, medical education services, and therapeutic outcomes and epidemiology research to help pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies and medical device manufacturers develop and deploy new therapies on a global basis.
AmeriChoice:
AmeriChoice specializes in providing managed care solutions to beneficiaries of government health care programs, including Medicaid, Medicare, Child Health and programs for the uninsured.
UnitedHealth Group's comprehensive benefits package includes:
Health and Well-Being Benefits (eligible on the first day of the month after your first day of employment)
Medical* and dental* coverage
Basic term life with AD&D insurance
Supplemental life insurance
Business travel accident insurance
Health care spending account
Dependent care spending account*
Savings and Retirement Benefits (eligible on your first day of employment)
401(k) savings plan*
Employee stock purchase plan*
If you enroll in the 401(k) savings plan at a contribution rate of between 1 percent and 15 percent, you will automatically receive company matching contributions (of $.50 for each $1.00 you contribute, up to the first 6 percent) after one year of service. You are eligible to own those matching contributions after only two years of service.
Work and Family Benefits (various degrees of eligibility)
Sick leave, vacation, designated and floating holidays*
Short-term and long-term disability coverage
Commuter expense reimbursement account*
Myuhc.com for conducting benefits transactions online*
Education reimbursement program
Employee Assistance Program (EAP), including legal and financial resource information*
Childcare, eldercare, adoption and education/school choice resource and referral services*
Adoption assistance reimbursement*
Flexible work schedules, including flexible hours, job sharing, teleworking, compressed work weeks and part-time schedules where appropriate*
Employee discount programs
Benefits available to part-time employees are marked with an asterisk (*).
Employee benefits vary by country. This is an overview of benefits provided for employees in the US. Additional information on benefits for each of the 'International' countries will be provided during the interview process.
UnitedHealth Group is a diversified health and well-being company dedicated to making the health care system work better. The company directs its resources into designing products, providing services and applying technologies that:
• Improve access to health and well-being services;
• Simplify the health care experience;
• Promote quality; and,
• Make health care more affordable.
UnitedHealth Group
P.O. Box 1459
Minneapolis, MN 55440-1459
Ph. (800) 328-5979
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