UnitedHealth Group’s third-quarter earnings inched up 2 percent but that was enough to help the nation’s largest health insurer trump Wall Street expectations and raise its 2014 forecast for the first time this year.
The Minneapolis-based insurer said Thursday that health care use continues to remain restrained, due in part to its medical management push. Revenue from its Optum information technology services business segment jumped 21 percent in the quarter.
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