Competition record
Change Healthcare
Deep profile · 1 linked library matter
Change Healthcare runs a network that carries medical claims and payments between providers and insurers. UnitedHealth acquired it, and this library still treats the UnitedHealth-Change review as open.
Overview
Clinics, hospitals, and pharmacies send claims through Change, which checks them and routes payment, including for insurers that are not UnitedHealthcare. The network is industry plumbing rather than a single health plan.
UnitedHealth acquired that network. The library lists the matter under the short name UnitedHealth-Change review and still marks the review as ongoing.
No divestiture outcome is recorded in that library file. The open status is the library's, and this page does not add a new remedy.
Competition footprint
A clearinghouse that unrelated insurers and providers already share is the competitive stake in the review.
Putting that claims-and-payment network inside the largest US health insurer is the vertical question the library file is about.
Because the library still carries the review as open, this page does not treat the acquisition as a closed competition matter.
Consumer & business angle
Doctors and pharmacies feel a rule change or an outage as a delay in getting paid.
Rival health plans that still send claims across the network are customers of a company UnitedHealth now owns.
What to watch
- Whether the library's UnitedHealth-Change review stays open.
- Any remedy that is actually entered, rather than a divestiture this page does not record.
Markets
medical claims processing · healthcare payments · healthcare claims processing · pharmacy benefit intermediaries · commercial health insurance
Also known as: change healthcare