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The notices are going out to workers in the commercial health coverage business as well as in other operations.
Credit: Vladitto/ThinkstockUnitedHealth is sending voluntary buyout notices to some of its 440,000 employees, according to a representative for its UnitedHealthcare unit.
Executives at the Minnetonka, Minnesota-based company told securities analysts during a conference call in January that the company had set ambitious operational efficiency goals for 2025, and the new buyout offer appears to be related to the efficiency goals.
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Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
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