DOJ questions former UnitedHealth employees over Medicare billing practices, WSJ reports

(Reuters) -Investigators from the U.S. Department of Justice are questioning former employees of UnitedHealth Group over how the company deployed doctors and nurses to gather diagnoses that bolstered its Medicare payments, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Shares of the healthcare conglomerate fell 1.1% in premarket trading. Former employees