UnitedHealth Is Spending Big on Trump Allies to Fix Its Washington Problems

As UnitedHealth Group faces government investigations and changes in federal payments that have hurt its results, it is turning to an increasingly common Washington playbook: hiring Donald Trump’s allies and trying to plead its case directly with top officials in his administration.

After The Wall Street Journal first reported in May that UnitedHealth faced a criminal investigation into its key Medicare business, it secured a meeting with senior Justice Department officials, including the attorney general’s chief of staff, Chad Mizelle, where they discussed probes of the company, people familiar with the meeting said.