UnitedHealth (UNH)care is offering employees in its benefits operations unit the option to accept buyouts if they quit by March 3, Annika Kim

UnitedHealth Group has started offering buyouts to a number of workers and layoffs might eventually be coming, depending on how many people opt for voluntary separations. The Eden Prairie-based health care giant did not say how many buyouts it’s targeting as part of what the company is calling a “voluntary resignation separation program,

Amid plans to conduct layoffs in its benefits operations segment, UnitedHealthcare, the insurance arm of the managed care firm UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), has informed certain employees in the segment to accept buyouts.