{"id":1536104,"date":"2025-05-14T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1536104"},"modified":"2025-05-14T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T03:15:00","slug":"unitedhealth-shares-plunge-continues-on-reported-doj-probe-for-medicare-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/unitedhealth-shares-plunge-continues-on-reported-doj-probe-for-medicare-fraud\/1536104\/","title":{"rendered":"UnitedHealth Shares Plunge Continues On Reported DoJ Probe For Medicare Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">UnitedHealth Shares Plunge Continues On Reported DoJ Probe For Medicare Fraud<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><em>And the hits just keep on coming&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNH shares are plunging after hours (down 6% and back below $300 for the first time since September 2020) following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/unitedhealth-medicare-fraud-investigation-df80667f?mod=hp_lead_pos1\">report from The Wall Street Journal <\/a>that, according to people familiar with the matter, <strong>the DOJ is investigating UnitedHealth Group for possible criminal Medicare fraud related to its Medicare Advantage business.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2025-05-14_16-09-13.jpg?itok=mxf2J9oX\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the <strong>exact nature of the potential criminal allegations against UnitedHealth is unclear<\/strong>, the people said the federal investigation is focusing on the company\u2019s Medicare Advantage business practices.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department\u2019s criminal healthcare fraud unit focuses on crimes such as <strong>kickbacks that trigger higher Medicare and Medicare payments<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/im-26488385.jpg?itok=4gVSflyO\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UnitedHealth\u2019s latest annual securities filing says <strong>the company \u201chas been involved or is currently involved in various governmental investigations, audits and reviews,\u201d <\/strong>and flags involved agencies including the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t specifically mention the criminal, civil and antitrust probes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/unitedhealth-medicare-fraud-investigation-df80667f?mod=hp_lead_pos1\">Journal <\/a>has reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The probe adds to a list of government inquiries into the company,<\/strong> including investigations of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/health\/healthcare\/u-s-launches-antitrust-investigation-of-healthcare-giant-unitedhealth-ff5a00d2?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\">potential antitrust violations<\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/health\/healthcare\/unitedhealth-medicare-doj-diagnosis-investigation-66b9f1db?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\">civil investigation<\/a>\u00a0of its Medicare billing practices, including at its doctors offices.<\/p>\n<p>All of this comes as the Trump administration and Congress look to cut federal health spending, a key source of UnitedHealth\u2019s success.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Wed, 05\/14\/2025 &#8211; 19:15<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/unitedhealth-shares-plunge-continues-reported-doj-probe-medicare-fraud\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/unitedhealth-shares-plunge-continues-reported-doj-probe-medicare-fraud<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UnitedHealth Shares Plunge Continues On Reported DoJ Probe For Medicare Fraud And the hits just keep on coming&#8230; UNH shares are plunging after hours (down&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1536105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1536105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}