{"id":430600,"date":"2026-01-26T09:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/430600\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:54:21","slug":"unitedhealth-officials-to-return-aca-profits-to-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/430600\/","title":{"rendered":"UnitedHealth officials to return ACA profits to customers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan. 21 (UPI) — UnitedHealth Group officials on Wednesday said the health insurer will return the profits earned on policies obtained via the Affordable Care Act<\/a> marketplace aka Obamacare.<\/p>\n

UnitedHealth Group is the largest health insurer in the United States, but its 1 million ACA policies rank well behind the larger Obamacare insurers, such as Centene and its 6 million such policies, according to Politico<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

“We are working with the [Trump] administration on the details, and our intent is to provide rebates to members in some manner,” UnitedHealth Group spokesman Robert Josephson told Politico.<\/p>\n

The health insurer’s announcement came a day before several health insurer executives are scheduled to testify before a pair of House committee hearings on Thursday.\n<\/p>\n

UnitedHealth Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Stephen Hemsley has prepared his testimony, which the insurer has posted online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It largely focuses on the costs of hospitalization, diagnostic services and prescription medications as primary factors in rising healthcare costs in the United States.<\/p>\n

The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Health is conducting a hearing in the morning, followed by a House Ways and Means Committee hearing in the afternoon.\n<\/p>\n

The respective committees are examining the high cost of health care in the United States and how to make it more affordable and accessible.<\/p>\n

Former UnitedHealth Group Chief Executive Officer Brian Thompson was shot and killed on a New York City sidewalk on the morning on Dec. 4, 2024.<\/p>\n

Accused murderer Luigi Mangione is charged with first-degree murder and other related charges in the U.S. District Court for Southern New York and could be sentenced to death<\/a> if found guilty.<\/p>\n

Mangione also faces state charges in New York and Pennsylvania, where he was arrested after Thompson’s murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 21 (UPI) — UnitedHealth Group officials on Wednesday said the health insurer will return the profits earned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[2139,28,97,252,253,452,2830],"class_list":["post-430600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-business","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-top-stories","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}