Segment Financial Information (Notes)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment Financial Information [Text Block]

Segment Financial Information

The Company’s four reportable segments are UnitedHealthcare, OptumHealth, OptumInsight and OptumRx. For more information on the Company’s segments see Part I, Item I, “Business” and Note 13 of Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8, “Financial Statements” in the Company's 2014 10-K.

The following table presents the reportable segment financial information:

			Optum
(in millions)	UnitedHealthcare		OptumHealth		OptumInsight		OptumRx		Optum Eliminations			Optum		Corporate and Eliminations			Consolidated
Three Months Ended  March 31, 2015
Revenues - external customers:
Premiums	$	30,905	$	769	$	—	$	—	$	—		$	769	$	—		$	31,674
Services	1,603		521		559		23		—			1,103		—			2,706
Products	—		5		20		1,205		—			1,230		—			1,230
Total revenues - external customers	32,508		1,295		579		1,228		—			3,102		—			35,610
Total revenues - intersegment	—		1,963		811		7,067		(159		)	9,682		(9,682		)	—
Investment and other income	115		31		—		—		—			31		—			146
Total revenues	$	32,623	$	3,289	$	1,390	$	8,295	$	(159	)	$	12,815	$	(9,682	)	$	35,756
Earnings from operations	$	1,898	$	234	$	222	$	286	$	—		$	742	$	—		$	2,640
Interest expense	—		—		—		—		—			—		(150		)	(150		)
Earnings before income taxes	$	1,898	$	234	$	222	$	286	$	—		$	742	$	(150	)	$	2,490
Three Months Ended March 31, 2014
Revenues - external customers:
Premiums	$	27,511	$	604	$	—	$	—	$	—		$	604	$	—		$	28,115
Services	1,586		263		525		30		—			818		—			2,404
Products	1		7		26		964		—			997		—			998
Total revenues - external customers	29,098		874		551		994		—			2,419		—			31,517
Total revenues - intersegment	—		1,671		696		6,464		(115		)	8,716		(8,716		)	—
Investment and other income	156		35		—		—		—			35		—			191
Total revenues	$	29,254	$	2,580	$	1,247	$	7,458	$	(115	)	$	11,170	$	(8,716	)	$	31,708
Earnings from operations	$	1,404	$	211	$	197	$	242	$	—		$	650	$	—		$	2,054
Interest expense	—		—		—		—		—			—		(160		)	(160		)
Earnings before income taxes	$	1,404	$	211	$	197	$	242	$	—		$	650	$	(160	)	$	1,894