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Alex Shteynshlyuger, a urologist with a practice in New York City, feels surrounded by UnitedHealth Group. He has seen the company gobble up private practices and says it\u2019s slow to pay claims. It also started offering cash-flow services that, Shteynshlyuger says, feel a lot like payday loans.<\/p>\n

UnitedHealth Group is the largest employer of physicians<\/a> in the United States. And it\u2019s growing.<\/p>\n

In this episode of \u201cAn Arm and a Leg,\u201d host Dan Weissmann looks into this \u201cbehemoth\u201d company and the obstacles antitrust regulators face in keeping up with its rapid growth.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\tHost and producer of “An Arm and a Leg.” Previously, Dan was a staff reporter for Marketplace and Chicago’s WBEZ. His work also appears on All Things Considered, Marketplace, the BBC, 99 Percent Invisible, and Reveal, from the Center for Investigative Reporting.\t\t<\/p>\n

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