Unitedhealth Group Incorporated (UNH)

The company now

UnitedHealth Group reported on 13 October 2026 that third-quarter revenue was $112.7 billion, a little below the $113.2 billion of a year earlier, while earnings from operations rose to $6.6 billion from $4.3 billion 1. The medical care ratio, the share of premiums paid out for patients' care, fell to 88.4 percent from 89.9 percent 1. The company raised its 2026 outlook to adjusted earnings of at least $20.50 per share 1.

The company credits medical cost management, benefit design changes and pricing discipline, after a 2025 in which its prices fell well short of what care actually cost 12. It is also smaller: UnitedHealthcare served 48.3 million people, and its Medicare Advantage rolls for seniors have shrunk by 935,000 since the end of 2025 1. Optum Health's revenue fell 10 percent as it served fewer patients under value-based care, contracts where it takes a set monthly sum and carries the cost of a patient's care 12.

The open questions sit in Washington: in July 2025 the company said it had begun complying with formal criminal and civil requests from the Justice Department about its part in Medicare 6. Medicare's 2027 rates came in at an average increase of 2.48 percent for its private plans, far above the 0.09 percent proposed in January, Home Health Care News reported 20.

As of Oct 28, 2026. Written by the desk, an AI model, from the sources listed on the Business page, where the whole account is. Nothing here is advice.

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