So curiously, UHG says the Change breach has cost it $847M dollars. And yet, magically, this will not impact the overall profit of UHG.
More strangely, a (probably oversharing) C-level, in a divisional meeting, directly blamed various merit increase eliminations, recent layoffs, and bonus deflations on "the company [not the division] missing its numbers... and not by a little." They claimed that the "internal" numbers were "bad, particularly bad" and that things were not going turn around quickly.
When challenged on the difference between the publicly posted optimism and numbers vs. the internal numbers and messaging, the C-level couldn't explain it and rambled a bit before stating "we obviously are a little more aggressive with our internal numbers."
So what's going on? Having two sets of very different targets isn't unusual, but having them be so completely different raises questions.
It's also very, very odd that a company endlessly warning (internally) directly from the CEO about price pressure and medicare advantage rates can somehow come up with $847M to cover losses without blinking, especially while continuing extensive layoffs "due to business conditions."
I don't know who isn't being honest, but of these parties is lying.