A mega thread of the timeline leading up to the death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. 🧵👇🏻🧵
United Health Group (UH) is the parent company of United Healthcare and Optum, its healthcare software, payment services and electronic data interchange (EDI) subsidiary.
United Health Group (UH) is the parent company of United Healthcare and Optum, its healthcare software, payment services and electronic data interchange (EDI) subsidiary.
January 6, 2021(!!!) United Health announces intent to acquire Change Healthcare (CH) for $8B and integrate it with Optum. CH has the largest EDI in the US including customer sensitive information (CSI.) reuters.com/business/unite…
March 17, 2021 American Hospital Association sends letter urging DOJ Antitrust Division to investigate UH’s acquisition of CH. file:///private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/661088EA-EBCF-4617-A241-7ADF1B5C4420/tmp/TempDocs/aha-urges-doj-investigate-unitedhealth-groups-acquisition-change-healthcare-letter-3-18-21.pdf
February 24, 2022 US DOJ sues to stop UH from acquiring CH claiming it violates antitrust laws and gave them access to health plan data from Humana, Anthem Inc, CVS Health, Aetna and Cigna. reuters.com/business/healt…
March 17, 2022 UH issues statement through Optum blasting DOJ’s lawsuit, but assuring it would “maintain robust firewall processes” to prevent CSI from being shared between Optum and United Healthcare. file:///private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/661088EA-EBCF-4617-A241-7ADF1B5C4420/tmp/TempDocs/overview-optum-response.pdf
September 19, 2022 US DC District Court Judge Carl Nichols rejects the DOJ case. beckershospitalreview.com/legal-regulato…
September 19, 2022 DOJ says they respectfully disagree with the court’s decision and are evaluating next steps. justice.gov/opa/pr/stateme…
October 3, 2022 After 10 days with no appeal from DOJ, UH completes their acquisition of Change Healthcare. healthcaredive.com/news/unitedhea…
October 10, 2023 UH receives notice the DOJ has opened a non-public antitrust investigation into their company, but UH does not publicly disclose this.
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December 6, 2023 Stephen Hemsley, UH Board Chair sells $113M of UH stocks during October, November and December 2023. statnews.com/2023/12/06/uni…
February 12, 2024 Nancy Pelosi purchases call options for Palo Alto Networks. benzinga.com/general/politi…
February 12, 2024 SAME day the ransomeware attackers gained access to Change Healthcare systems as testified to Congress by UH CEO Andrew Witty. healthcaredive.com/news/unitedhea…
February 16, 2024 UH CEO Brian Thompson sells $15.1M UH shares. crainsnewyork.com/health-care/un…
February 21, 2024 Nancy Pelosi purchases more call options for Palo Alto Networks. The cyberattack is made public at Change Healthcare, knocking it offline, creating a backlog of unpaid claims, and millions of Americans may have had their CSI leaked to the dark web in spite of UH paying a ransom of $22M in Bitcoin to the cyber attackers.
February 27, 2024 WSJ finally reports on the opening of an antitrust investigation of UH by the DOJ, and the stock price drops by $27 and shareholder value drops by $25B. reuters.com/business/healt…
March 14, 2024 Wendi Whitmore, Sr VP at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 announces it has experts on the ground working with UHG and its partners to restore operations.
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May 15, 2024 Hollywood Firefighters Pension Fund brings class action lawsuit against UH, Andrew Witty, Stephen Hemsley and Brian Thompson alleging insider trading. ai-cio.com/news/hollwood-…
December 4, 2024 United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson is shot in NYC.
December 9, 2024 Luigi Mangione is arrested in an Altoona, PA McDonald’s.
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