UnitedHealth raises profit view as lower medical costs drive quarterly beat
beat Wall Street targets for quarterly profit and raised its annual forecast on Friday, as the health insurance provider banks on membership growth in its Medicare Advantage business.
Health insurers stand to benefit from inflation and labor shortages that could hinder the number of non-urgent procedures that hospitals perform during the year as that leads to lower costs from medical claims.
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