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UnitedHealth Group’s OptumHealth is part of a $2.2 billion deal to acquire a Washington-based hospitalist staffing company.
OptumHealth will be one of the two primary owners of Sound Inpatient Physicians Holdings, a physician staffing firm based in Tacoma, Washington, according to a ratings action issued by Moody’s on Thursday.
UnitedHealth's care delivery arm will own the company alongside the private equity firm Summit Partners, which agreed to purchase the controlling stake of Sound from the Germany-based dialysis provider Fresenius Medical Care in April.
The announcement from Fresenius referenced an “investment consortium led by Summit.” UnitedHealth’s involvement has not been previously disclosed.
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