UnitedHealth Group Inc's Optum health-services unit has paid $1.5 billion in cash for EMIS Group PLC, a Leeds, U.K-based provider of health care software and IT.
The deal, which was approved last week, according to a regulatory filing, gives Optum UK more tools and services to support the National Health Service, the UK's national health care system.
Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth (NYSE: UNH), doing business as Bordeaux UK Holdings II Limited, is paying $2.32 per share for EMIS.
