UnitedHealth Profit Rises on Premiums

January 18, 2006

UnitedHealth Group Inc., which recently bought Cypress-based PacifiCare Health Systems, on Thursday posted an 18% jump in fourth-quarter profit and boosted its 2006 forecast, as the health insurer kept premium increases ahead of escalating medical costs.

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