July 9 (Reuters) - Investigators from the U.S. Department of Justice are questioning former employees of UnitedHealth Group UNH.N over how the company deployed doctors and nurses to gather diagnoses that bolstered its Medicare payments, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Shares of the healthcare conglomerate fell about 1% in premarket trading.
(Reporting by Bhanvi Satija in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)
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