Major Corporations

The UnitedHealth Group (UHG) is a leading health care company, serving more than 75 million people worldwide. (Group, 2011) As a leader in the health benefits and services industry, UHG’s six businesses – UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual, UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement, UnitedHealthcare Community & State, OptumHealth, Ingenix, and Prescription Solutions – offer exceptional service, broad capabilities and enduring value in creating a modern health care system. (Group, 2011) Their products and services empower individuals, expand consumer choice and strengthen patient-provider relationships across the health care spectrum. (Group, 2011) The company’s philanthropic objectives include encouraging diversity in the work place, diversity in supplier base, training, creating awareness among children on healthy practices, offering services catering to different segments, including women from poorer countries, caring for the aged, making health care simple and affordable, enabling the user the choice based on information and preventive medicine.

The UnitedHealth Group offers a comprehensive array of products and services through its two business arms: Health Benefits and Health Services. Through their Health Benefits which includes UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual, UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement and UnitedHealthcare Community & State. UHG serves a full spectrum of customers with network-based health care benefits and related services. (Group, 2011) UHG’s Health Services provides consumer services, software, pharmaceutical and specialty benefit management, financial capabilities dedicated to health care, health data and analytics, consulting and other services to customers in the United States and international markets. (Group, 2011)

The vision of the UnitedHealth Group is diversity and inclusion are embedded in its core values along with integrity, quality, innovation and social responsibility, necessary to fulfill overall...