SYRACUSE — UnitedHealthcare has placed new signage on the former POMCO Group building located at 2425 James St. in Syracuse’s Eastwood neighborhood. The health insurer on Jan. 11 held a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony and an open house with area business and community leaders to mark the occasion. UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE: UNH) in 2017 acquired […]
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SYRACUSE — UnitedHealthcare has placed new signage on the former POMCO Group building located at 2425 James St. in Syracuse’s Eastwood neighborhood.
The health insurer on Jan. 11 held a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony and an open house with area business and community leaders to mark the occasion.
UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE: UNH) in 2017 acquired POMCO Group, which became part of UMR, UnitedHealthcare’s third-party administrator (TPA) service. Minnetonka, Minnesota–based UnitedHealth Group is the parent company of UnitedHealthcare.
The local UnitedHealthcare office is supporting the self-funded medical and workers’-compensation plans for 3.6 million UMR members across the country. It is also home to UMR’s risk-management team and UnitedHealthcare’s commercial sales team for Central New York.
Ceremony remarks

After a ribbon-cutting event outside the facility on James Street, company officials shared remarks inside the building.
The company purchased POMCO Group because it “really fit well” into its UnitedHealthcare’s product line, Michael McGuire, CEO of UnitedHealthcare of New York, said.
“We’ve got over 10,000 UnitedHealthcare employees in the state of New York. We’ve got almost 4 million UnitedHealthcare members in the state of New York, [including] commercial, Medicare, [and] Medicaid, so we really do have a big footprint but there’s a big opportunity up here in Central New York,” said McGuire.
In his remarks, Donald Napier, senior VP of UMR, thanked those who attended the event on behalf of UMR’s 4,000 employees nationwide, including “our 340 Eastwood–based employees.”
Over the past decade, UnitedHealthcare has acquired a number of “strong, regional TPAs,” according to Napier.
“POMCO [Group] becomes another one as a part of UMR,” he added.
Napier went on to say that the Syracuse office is “proud of the growth and success” that POMCO Group has had but also the growth that UMR has had to become “the largest third-party administrator in the country.”
“Some folks are saying we’re a national company now. I don’t know about you but I’m still coming to work at James Street and we’re still growing at James Street,” Napier quipped.