This is why they don’t want to pay anesthesia providers it hurts their profit.
UnitedHealth Group kicked off another round of earnings calls for major health insurance companies Tuesday morning, when it reported $6.06 billion in profit for the third quarter of 2024.
That’s up slightly from the $5.8 billion the company posted in the third quarter of 2023. However, UnitedHealth has brought in $8.9 billion in profit through the first three quarters of the year, down by close to half from the $16.9 billion reported through the first nine months of 2023.