UnitedHealth Group Organizational Structure & Org Chart
UnitedHealth Group has two complementary businesses, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, but reports four financial segments. Optum Health, Optum Insight and Optum Rx sit within Optum, while UnitedHealthcare reports as one segment.
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated organizational chart
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated's reporting structure as of 2026-09. Drag to pan, scroll to zoom — or open it in QueryChart and edit it as your own.
- Industry
- Health benefits and health services
- Headquarters
- Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States
- Founded
- 1977
- Employees
- More than 390,000 (year-end 2025)
- CEO
- Stephen Hemsley
- Revenue
- $447.6B total revenue (2025)
- Ownership
- Public
- Structure as of
- 2026-09
- Structure last reviewed
- 2026-09-24
About the company
UnitedHealth Group combines a health-benefits business, UnitedHealthcare, with the health-services business Optum. Its 2025 Form 10-K identifies four reportable segments: UnitedHealthcare, Optum Health, Optum Insight and Optum Rx. Showing only two top-level boxes hides the operational distinction among Optum's businesses; showing four without the Optum parent obscures the corporate relationship.
The chart therefore uses two business branches with the four reported segments nested inside them. It also reflects the 2026 realignment of Optum Financial Services from Optum Health into Optum Insight. Named leaders are documented by the company's releases; dotted connectors to business groups describe portfolio membership, not verified individual reporting lines.
Two businesses and four reported segments
UnitedHealthcare is the benefits business led by Tim Noel. Its 2025 filing describes Employer & Individual, Medicare & Retirement, and Community & State as major activities inside one reportable segment. Those labels are not three new group-level segments and do not imply three separate public companies.
Optum is led by Patrick Conway. It contains Optum Health, which delivers care; Optum Insight, which provides technology, data and services; and Optum Rx, which provides pharmacy care services. These are the other three reportable segments in the company's financial statements.
On January 1, 2026 the company moved Optum Financial Services from Optum Health into Optum Insight. The placement in this chart follows that update rather than repeating a 2025-only business map. CEO Stephen Hemsley is shown at the top; the chart does not assert unpublished personnel relationships below the named business leaders.
Key leadership roles
Stephen Hemsley
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer — Returned as CEO in May 2025.
Tim Noel
Chief Executive Officer, UnitedHealthcare
Patrick Conway
Chief Executive Officer, Optum
How this structure supports the business
The two-business view explains a common source of confusion: UnitedHealthcare is a benefits organization, while Optum operates in care delivery, technology and pharmacy services. A reader can locate a service without assuming that every Optum activity is an insurance product.
The four-segment view aligns the diagram with financial disclosures. It also shows why cross-business transactions and eliminations exist: the businesses can serve each other as well as outside customers, so segment totals cannot simply be added to obtain group revenue.
Advantages and disadvantages
- The two-business parent map makes the UnitedHealthcare–Optum relationship visible.
- It is too coarse to explain how Optum Health, Insight and Rx differ without another layer.
- Four reported segments correspond to the company's published financial view.
- Reporting segments and internal management or legal ownership remain different relationships.
Interesting facts
- UnitedHealth Group describes UnitedHealthcare and Optum as two distinct, complementary businesses.
- The 2025 filing reports four segments: UnitedHealthcare, Optum Health, Optum Insight and Optum Rx.
- UnitedHealthcare's Employer & Individual, Medicare & Retirement, and Community & State activities are grouped within one reportable segment.
- Optum Financial Services moved from Optum Health to Optum Insight at the start of 2026.
- The company reported more than 390,000 employees and $447.6 billion of revenue for 2025.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Optum part of UnitedHealth Group?
Yes. UnitedHealth Group identifies Optum and UnitedHealthcare as its two complementary businesses.
How many segments does UnitedHealth Group report?
Its 2025 Form 10-K reports four: UnitedHealthcare, Optum Health, Optum Insight and Optum Rx.
Where does Optum Financial Services sit in 2026?
UnitedHealth Group says it realigned Optum Financial Services from Optum Health to Optum Insight effective January 1, 2026.
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