Major Health Insurance Companies Take Down Leadership Pages Following Murder Of United Healthcare Ceo

Following the murder of its CEO on Wednesday morning, United Healthcare removed a page from its website listing the rest of its executive leadership, and several other health insurance companies have done the same, hiding the names and photos of their executives from easy public access. 

As of Thursday, United Healthcare’s “about us” page that listed leadership, including slain CEO Brian Thompson, redirects to the company’s homepage. An archive of the page shows that it was still up as of Wednesday morning, but is redirecting at the time of writing and isn’t directly accessible from Google search or the site’s navigation buttons. 

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, which Thursday said it would walk back changes announced this week that would charge patients for anesthesia during procedures that went longer than estimated, now redirects its own leadership page to its “about us” page. Originally that page showed leadership, including President and CEO Kim Keck, Executive Vice President and CFO Christina Fisher, and 23 more executives as of earlier this year according to archives of the page, but is now inaccessible. 

Surveillance video obtained by @CBSNewYork shows the moment UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot outside of a Midtown Manhattan hotel on Wednesday morning in what police said appears to be a targeted attack. Police are looking for the suspect seen in the clip. pic.twitter.com/l1oiTvq0AW

— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 4, 2024

@GASLIGHTER_ on X spotted other major insurers following suit. Nonprofit health insurance organization Caresource took down the individual pages for all of its executive leadership, including President and CEO Erhardt Preitauer, Executive Vice President David Williams, Executive Vice President for Markets and Products Scott Markovich, Executive Vice President for Strategy and Business Sanjoy Musunuri, CFO Larry Smart and COO Fred Schulz. Snippets from each of these pages are still visible on Google search, but the pages themselves return an error that says “the requested URL was not found on this server.”

Another nonprofit health plan, Medica, did the same: Medica’s executive leadership page redirects to its homepage, and its foundation leadership staff page now returns an error: “Oops. That page doesn’t exist.” 

Elevance Health took down its leadership page, too, replacing it with a message that says “Sorry, that page is no longer here.” The most recent archive for that page is from last week. 

Thompson was fatally shot early Wednesday morning outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan, about an hour before a conference for his company’s investors was set to begin. The assassin, who has not been captured, reportedly used a silencer and engraved the bullets with three words: “deny,” “defend,” “depose” which investigators suspect are a reference to the "three D's of insurance.” 

Other major health insurance companies still have their leadership pages available, including Kaiser Permanente, Humana, and Aetna. United Healthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Caresource, Medica, and Elevance did not immediately respond to requests for comment.