MINNEAPOLIS — UnitedHealth Staff on Thursday introduced {that a} longtime worker within the corporate has been named the brand new chief of its medical health insurance arm, just about two months after the killing of former CEO Brian Thompson.
Tim Noel, who joined UHG in 2007 and maximum just lately served as UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement’s leader govt officer, will transform UnitedHealthcare’s CEO.
“He brings exceptional revel in to this function with a confirmed observe file and robust dedication to making improvements to how well being care works for shoppers, physicians, employers, governments and our different companions,” UHG mentioned in a commentary.
Thompson, 50, was once headed to a UnitedHealth Group investors conference on the Hilton Midtown in early December when the gunman fatally shot him, the usage of a handgun changed with a silencer. Thompson maximum just lately resided in Maple Grove, Minnesota.
Following a five-day manhunt, Luigi Mangione, 26, was once arrested in a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania after an worker known as police. He was once later charged with a number of counts of homicide in New York.
The New York Police Division instructed CBS Information that there aren’t any indications that Mangione was once a UnitedHealthcare buyer.
Officers imagine Mangione will have centered the corporate as a result of its standing as the most important well being insurer in the USA.
