UnitedHealth Group’s Optum health services business is working on a turnaround that includes leaving markets and ending ...

The full financial impact of the price hikes could exceed $67 million each year in two dozen markets, according to the new ...

Optum is rolling out new AI-powered tools that aim to reduce delays associated with prior authorization. | Optum is rolling out new AI-powered tools that are aimed to reduce delays associated with ...

The medical groups hope to retain the 65 physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants through a new, lower-cost ...

Optum has launched a pair of AI-driven prior authorization products, one designed to speed up submissions on the provider side and another to accelerate clinical reviews for payers. The ...

The acquisition of ASCs by UnitedHealth Group’s Optum, parent company of ASC chain SCA Health, was associated with double-digit price increases for competing insurers, according to a February study ...

UnitedHealthcare pays providers in its sister company Optum 17% more than it pays non-Optum providers, according to a new study that provides fresh ammunition to critics of vertical integration and of ...

Artificial intelligence could rework the claims and reimbursement process, allowing faster decision-making, reduced errors ...

UnitedHealth (UNH) is a buy: value-based care shift via Optum, 12% FY2025 revenue growth, AI cost cuts, and resilient margins.

During an investor call, UnitedHealth Group executives talk about the steps it has taken to increase transparency, use ...

Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth’s Optum unit launched a $250 million investment fund to invest in healthcare-focused startups, Forbes reports. UnitedHealth and Optum executives announced the ...

Optum executive Mark Flakne has been tapped to serve as the new chief financial officer for Included Health, which offers virtual and in-person primary care, as well as urgent and mental healthcare.