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UnitedHealth Group and Optum are getting rid of the name of NaviHealth, their controversial tech-driven care management arm.
LAS VEGAS—Optum Rx is planning to add up to three biosimilar drugs to its formulary to compete directly with AbbVie's Humira, which accounts for massive pharmacy spend each year.
Optum Rx is shifting its payment models to better meet the needs of pharmacies and consumers, the pharmacy benefit manager announced Thursday. The company said it will shift to a cost-based model ...
Healthcare giant Optum has restricted access to an internal AI chatbot used by employees after a security researcher found it was publicly accessible online, and anyone could access it using only ...
Exclusive: A move by Optum to change longstanding practices for licensing data to academic institutions has sparked an outcry among researchers.
Optum Health, the division that encompasses Optum Care, reported revenues of $24.1 billion. Five years later, Optum’s revenues for 2023 exceeded $226 billion, and Optum Health surpassed $95 billion.
The pharmacy delivery business Optum Rx opened its largest fulfillment center in the country in Mesa on Tuesday. The center located in west Mesa will add 300 jobs to its more than 5,500 workforce ...
Optum, the largest employer of physicians in the US, now employs nearly 90,000 physicians and 40,000 advanced practice clinicians, according to Optum Health CEO Amar Desai.
The federal judge overseeing nationwide litigation over the opioid crisis has denied pharmacy benefit managers OptumRx and Express Scripts’ demand that he recuse himself from cases against them ...
Optum, which employs the most physicians of any company with 70,000 doctors on staff, plans to hire 10,000 more this year. MedExpress offers urgent care in nine states.