General view outside the United Healthcare Corporate headquarters on December 4, 2024 in Minnesota, Minnesota.
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Unitedhealthcare offers specific employees in their Operational Power Unit the ability to accept the purchase if they stop by March 3, after a a turbulent year For an insurance giant, CNBC found out.
Those who do not accept the offer will continue either in their current role or comparable position, for CNBC, two people are familiar with this issue for CNBC. If the company does not fill the quota resignation through the redemption, it will release employees, people said, stating a site for internal resources.
The company refused to divide how many employees received bids for redemption within the so -called voluntary resignation program. The benefits of the convenience surgery supervises multiple subdivisions that help manage user services, requirements, enrollments, customer insurance fees and more, one person said.
Unitedhealthcare, Insurance Insurance Unitedhealth GroupThe largest private health insurer in the Unitedhealth US group had more than 440,000 employees of December 2023But she does not reveal how many people do in her beneficiary of benefits or the overall job with insurance.
Unitedhealth Group is the biggest health care conglomerate in the US based on revenue and its market limit of approximately $ 460 billion, but tried to reduce the costs as medical costs increase for Medicare Advantage users and deal with a drop of expensive Cyberattack against her subsidiary healthcare. Also faced renewed anger due to high health care costs in the US, following murder Executive Director of his Brian Thompson Insurance Unit in December.
Employees who meet the buying conditions include US full -time workers or short -time awarded four internal segments within the framework of convenience operations, including corporate, consumer operations, basic services and services of providers, according to the letter.
“This voluntary option is part of our constant efforts to ensure that our team is best positioned to meet the evolutionary needs of people and customers who are honored with serving,” a spokesman for Unitedhealth told CNBC in a statement. “We continue to grow our workforce with more than 3,200 positions currently available at the Unitedhealth Group career.”
The company expects the date of termination of the employee before May 1, according to an internal memorandum sent on Monday and was examined by CNBC. The memo said that some employees who accept the purchase may need to work after that date, but the company does not expect it to demand that they work last 13 November.
Their severance pay will depend on the number of years they spent at the company and their salary, and will begin on the date of their break, according to the memo. The advantages provided by employees included in any potential future release may not be “as favorable” as those offered to workers within the purchase program, according to the letter.
Workers who received bid bids are in shock, especially after Unitedhealth Group reported on his highest annual revenue in 2024. In January, the company announced that it had revenue of $ 400.3 billion in 2024, which is 8% more than a year.
Unitedhealth executives said the “digital adoption” helped the company reduce the costs during the call in the fourth quarter in January. Executive director Andrew Witty called it a “modernization program” that includes but not limited to artificial intelligence.
He added that Unitedhealth “was just somehow scratching the surface of possibilities.”
Workers were informed of the purchase during a meeting that lasted about 10 minutes on Monday, people said. They will have the opportunity to ask questions in IT sessions in the coming days.
The redemption followed by Thompson’s shooting, which released a torrent of anger and resentment towards the insurance industry and renewed calls to reform.
This only came a few months after a change in healthcare, which processes medical claims, hit Cyber -last February, who threatened protected environmental health data 190 million people. Unitedhealth Group has paid more than $ 3 billion providers of services affected by Cyberatt.
Unitedhealth Group too released workers In his department of health services, I have been charged last year.
The company’s shares on Wednesday increased by almost 1%.
