Under the settlement, UnitedHealth Group and Ingenix would pay $50 million. In February 2008, Optum, then named Ingenix, was the center of an investigation by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo 'into a scheme by health insurers to defraud consumers by manipulating reimbursement rates.' On January 13, 2009, Ingenix announced an agreement with the New York State attorney settling the probe into the independence of the health pricing database. He served as CEO of HealthAllies until 2003, when the company was acquired by UnitedHealth Group, whereafter he served as CEO of OptumInsight and the group executive vice president for Optum, both subsidiaries of UnitedHealth Group. Slavitt later recounted that the financial strain of Yurkofsky's death led to Yurkofsky's widow and children moving into a spare room at his home. In 1999, Slavitt founded the healthcare company HealthAllies after the death of his college roommate, Jeff Yurkofsky, from a malignant brain tumor. After receiving his MBA, he joined McKinsey & Company as a consultant. Slavitt's career was initially in investment banking at Goldman Sachs. He earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1993. He is a graduate of both The College of Arts and Sciences and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1988. Slavitt is the son of Earl Benton Slavitt, a Chicago attorney. He stepped down from that role in June 2021.

In January 2021, Slavitt accepted a temporary role as Senior Pandemic Advisor to President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 pandemic response team. A leader of the team that helped to repair the website after its initial rollout, he was nominated by Barack Obama to run CMS in July 2015. Slavitt (born 1966) is an American businessman and healthcare advisor who served as the acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from March 2015 to January 2017 and as a temporary Senior Advisor to the COVID-19 Response Coordinator in the Biden administration.

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