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STAT+: How UnitedHealth harnesses its physician empire to squeeze profits out of patients
This is the first in a periodic series about how UnitedHealth Group wields its unrivaled physician empire to boost its profits and expand its influence. UnitedHealth Group started out as a small, Minnesota health insurance company and has since morphed …