UnitedHealth Group to buy Change, a health tech firm, in $13B deal This is the second-largest acquisition by the Twin Cities-based company. January 6, 2021 7:34pm Text size Copy shortlink:
UnitedHealth Group Inc. is buying Change Healthcare, a health technology firm based in Nashville, in a $13 billion deal that is among the largest by the Minnetonka-based company.
UnitedHealth said Wednesday it will fold the company into Optum, its health information and technology business. It is the second-largest acquisition in company history, further widening UnitedHealth s empire beyond its legacy health care plans.
While UnitedHealth is best known as the nation s largest health insurer, it is seeing significant growth in its medical services that fall under Optum which is expected to account for about 50% of UnitedHealth s overall earnings in 2021.
Edina native and CEO of online grocer named entrepreneur of the year Nick Green co-founded Thrive, following his mother s healthy eating advice from his childhood. December 30, 2020 3:55pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Nick Green s mom didn t buy the fun kids cereals and sugary juice drinks that his friends had growing up. She was maniacal about health and wellness. We were the ones that had milk from cows not treated with hormones and cereal without sugar, Green said. I didn t understand it at the time, but it made a huge difference for me.
It laid a foundation for Green that food should be good for the body and for the planet ideas that translated in the company, Thrive Market, which he co-founded in 2014.
Ninth COVID-19 inmate death in Minnesota prisons 70-year-old man is the fifth inmate to die of the virus at the Faribault prison. December 19, 2020 7:00pm Text size Copy shortlink:
A 70-year-old inmate died of COVID-19 Saturday morning after his recent diagnosis, becoming Minnesota s ninth inmate to die of the virus.
The man was exposed to the novel coronavirus while incarcerated at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Faribault and died at a nearby hospital. The state s Department of Corrections (DOC) has not yet released his name.
It s the fifth COVID-19 death at Faribault, the state s largest prison with an inmate capacity of 2,000.
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Minnesota regulators notified three more restaurants Saturday of plans to suspend their liquor licenses for bucking Gov. Tim Walz s COVID-19 order to close.
The Interchange in Albert Lea, Cornerstone in Monticello and the Pour House in Clarks Grove now face 60-day suspensions pending a hearing before an administrative judge. They join four other establishments Boardwalk Bar and Grill in East Grand Forks, Alibi Drinkery in Lakeville, Mission Tavern in Merrifield and Neighbors on the Rum in Princeton facing similar suspensions for violating Walz s executive order.
Violators could face a five-year liquor license suspension by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety s Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement Division.
Courts may decide if Cargill, Nestle can be sued over child labor U.S. Supreme Court justices may step into a clash over human rights and the reach of U.S. companies in foreign countries. Text size Copy shortlink:
WASHINGTON – The allegations are horrendous: Boys as young as 10 abducted from Mali and forced into slavery on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast, where they worked 12-14 hours a day, were whipped if not moving fast enough and then underfed and locked in crowded rooms at night.
All of it done to improve profits for farmers selling cocoa to the world s biggest chocolate makers, including Minnesota-based Cargill Inc.