United healthcare under their Optum brand is now the largest owner of Doctor practices in the nation. The only one that owns more is the veterans administration. it turns out that the practice in the story had been acquired by optimum and they had just immediately shut it down to reorganize and instead of notifying their members they just closed and taped a note to the door. Maybe this was only a one time occurrence when this one practice and this is the only time I’ve heard about it, but it’s v