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Opportunities and Challenges for UnitedHealth Group in the Global Health Insurance Industry: A SWOT Analysis
- 1 Xie Xiu Hight School, Jiangsu, China
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Abstract
The Optimizing United Health Group (UHG) is a unique forerunner in the global health and welfare company that offers an escalating range of both health insurance and alternative services through its two major business segments, —United Healthcare and Optum. UHG is one of the two largest health insurance companies in the world, and its business field also faces great opportunities and challenges. To this end, we undertake a comprehensive SWOT analysis focused on internal company strengths and weaknesses but also external environment opportunities and threats as UHG extends innovation in the changing healthcare environment. Overall, this analysis indicates that UHG could continue to be able to grow and develop new services as it has a strong position in the market, strong financial resources, and diversity of service portfolio. At the same time, it faces stiff challenges to further growth in its over-reliance on the US market. high operating costs and risks to brand reputation. The paper also highlights the external opportunities, e.g., the fast-growing digital health market, rising global medical demand, and aging population cohort, alongside some of the challenges the telehealth industry is currently facing (e.g., a competitive market, changing policies, and threats to cybersecurity). UHG will face the opportunity of international expansion and lead the innovation in digital health services while using its strengths and covering for its weaknesses. In conclusion, the recommendation part of this paper speaks to how UHG can utilize these specific strategies to improve the organization's competitive positioning and increase product innovation in an extremely dynamic global healthcare market.
Keywords
United Health Group (UHG), SWOT analysis, digital health, market competition, and aging population
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Liu,W. (2025). Opportunities and Challenges for UnitedHealth Group in the Global Health Insurance Industry: A SWOT Analysis. Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences,151,72-88.
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