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Here are three leadership moves former or current Optum executives have made since Jan. 1: 1. Optum named Valerie Barckhoff senior vice president of revenue cycle transformation. Ms. Barckhoff has ...
Optum Rx — which includes the pharmacy benefit manager of health care conglomerate UnitedHealth Group — is dropping annual reauthorization requirements for 80 drugs, which will eliminate more ...
Optum has launched a new AI-powered revenue cycle platform aimed at reducing administrative burden for health systems through better clinical documentation and coding accuracy.
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) announced Wednesday its pharmacy benefit manager, Optum Rx, would eliminate up to 25% of ...
According to reports, U.S. pharmacies are seeing major disruptions following a purported nation-state attack against Change Healthcare, a unit within UnitedHealth’s Optum subsidiary. A ...
The cyberattack against a unit of UnitedHealth’s Optum subsidiary that has disrupted U.S. pharmacies involved the Blackcat ransomware strain, according to a report Monday. The Reuters report ...
In the wake of the Change Healthcare cyberattack, the American Medical Association is calling on Optum to adopt a more flexible approach to loan repayment for affected physicians. Here are five things ...
In it, Optum patients and staff described a decline in the quality of care since the medical company began buying up practices in the Hudson Valley a few years ago. More than 36 percent of ...