LHC Group (UnitedHealth / Optum)
LHC Group (UnitedHealth / Optum) — Home health & hospice — owned by UnitedHealth’s Optum since 2023 · lhcgroup.com.
What it sells
LHC Group is one of the largest U.S. home-health and hospice providers, owned by UnitedHealth Group’s Optum since February 2023 (a $5.4 billion acquisition — context, not a government contract). Veterans can reach providers like LHC through VA purchased community care generally, but no direct national VA contract for LHC Group was documented in the sources reviewed; its documented federal exposure is Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE and FEHBP reimbursement.
The contract and the money
No direct national VA contract documented in this build’s research.
On the record
What the government’s own watchdogs and prosecutors have published about this company, newest first. The summaries are ours; the findings are theirs.
- LHC Group to Pay $65 Million to Settle False Claims Inquiry (DOJ) (2011-09-30) — Settlement of a whistleblower case alleging LHC charged Medicare, Medicaid, FEHBP and TRICARE for medically unnecessary home-health visits and visits to patients who were not homebound (2006–2008 conduct), with an enhanced compliance program.
If this company is in your chain
- Tell Your Story — this site publishes documented family records. If this company is in your veteran’s chain, your documents belong on the record next to ours.
- VA OIG Hotline: 800-488-8244 — report suspected wrongdoing, inadequate patient care, or mismanagement straight to the Inspector General.
Middlemen data checked 2026-10-25 against the sources cited on this page. If a figure or a fact here is wrong, tell us — corrections are the point of this site.