UnitedHealth Group & Optum’s empire: 2,807 entities

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UnitedHealth Group is made up of 2,807 entities, according to the latest edition of the Sunlight Report. That includes 376 entities identified since the 2025 report.

The report uses publicly available data to map the company’s corporate structure. Its earlier findings were presented at a July 2025 Senate HELP Committee hearing and cited in Sen. Chuck Grassley’s investigation into UnitedHealth Group.

Here are 13 numbers from the report:

The structure:

  • 835: Entities under LHC Group, the home health and hospice provider. That is the largest segment in the report.
  • 689: Entities under SCA Health, UnitedHealth’s surgery center business.
  • 286: Beneficially owned, physician-owned affiliates.

The rest of the 2,807 entities break down as follows:

  • UnitedHealthcare/corporate: 209
  • Optum Health (other care delivery and services): 206
  • Amedisys (home health and hospice): 168
  • Optum Rx: 138
  • International: 114
  • Optum Insight/Change Healthcare: 106
  • Optum: 51
  • Unclassified: 5

The geography:

  • 782: Entities registered in Delaware. Texas is next with 224, followed by Florida (163), California (134) and Louisiana (105).
  • 46: Entities registered in Chile, the company’s largest footprint abroad. Ireland has 17 and Colombia has 11.

The deals

  • $13 billion: The value of UnitedHealth’s 2022 acquisition of Change Healthcare. The Justice Department sued to block the deal, but a federal judge ruled in UnitedHealth’s favor. The company had to divest its claims editing business.
  • 190 million: The approximate number of people whose information was exposed in the cyberattack on Change Healthcare.
  • $3.5 billion: The approximate value of Optum’s 2021 acquisition of Landmark Health, an in-home care provider for patients with complex, chronic conditions. In 2024, Landmark exited 18 markets, which affected about 2,000 employees.
  • $3.3 billion: The value of UnitedHealth’s acquisition of Amedisys. To close the deal, the Justice Department required UnitedHealth to divest at least 164 home health and hospice locations across 19 states.
  • 50.003%: UnitedHealth’s combined stake in RVO Health, its 2021 joint venture with Red Ventures. RVO Health includes Healthline and Healthgrades. United HealthCare Services owns 32.836% and Solaris JV Holdings owns 17.173%, according to the company’s Schedule Y filing.

The business

  • Nearly $20 billion: OptumInsight’s 2023 revenue, up 29.8% from the year before.
  • 2.5 million: The number of home visits UnitedHealth workers made in 2023, according to comments then-CEO Andrew Witty made during the company’s second-quarter 2024 earnings call.

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