The number of urgent care centers in the U.S. has surpassed 9,200 as hospital systems and well-capitalized companies like UnitedHealth Group’s Optum unit open urgent care centers across the country.

UnitedHealth Group continued its buying streak Wednesday, announcing its Optum division bought MedExpress, an operator of urgent-care clinics. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. MedExpress runs ...

vice chairman at UnitedHealth Group and CEO of Optum, the insurer’s health services business said during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call earlier this week. Urgent care, also known ...

MedExpress, an Optum company, and Walgreens Boots Alliance will launch a series of urgent care centers attached to Walgreens stores, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal reported.

Pittsburgh-based UPMC and the national chain GoHealth Urgent Care have formed a new joint venture ... UnitedHealth Group’s Optum purchased Morgantown, W.V.-based MedExpress in 2015 for $1.5 ...

Optum, a healthcare company owned by UnitedHealth Group, is laying off 525 people in multiple locations, many of them at urgent care facilities in Southern California. The company, in a notice to ...

UnitedHealth Group's Optum division is making its largest push thus far into patient care in Minnesota with up to 19 new urgent care centers planned by the end of 2017. Operating under the brand ...

The company announced this morning that DaVita Medical Group will join Optum’s physician-led primary, specialty, in-home, urgent- and surgery-care delivery services business as part of a deal ...

UnitedHealth Group’s Optum division has acquired MedExpress, an operator of urgent care clinics across the nation. “MedExpress has set the highest standards of care quality, convenience and ...