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 ...

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.

Pharmacy benefit management giant Optum Rx is aiming to address maternal and fetal health by leaning on the power of independent pharmacies. The Bridge to Healthy Baby program launched earlier ...

Optum will not bid on Steward Health Care’s physician group, Stewardship Health, during the bankrupt health system’s upcoming auction, a Massachusetts state official has confirmed. The news is ...

EVERETT — At least 23,000 Medicaid patients are set to lose care access at more than 30 Optum clinics statewide this fall. Starting Nov. 1, Optum Care Washington — a local branch of the global ...

Optum Rx’s push to reform its reauthorization policy comes amid broad scrutiny of prior authorization processes, where doctors need to get approval from insurers before they provide some ...

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.

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.

Optum has named Valerie Barckhoff senior vice president of revenue cycle transformation, according to an April 21 post on her LinkedIn page.. Ms. Barckhoff has more than 30 years of experience in ...

A move by Optum to change longstanding practices for licensing data to academic institutions has sparked an outcry among researchers, who argue the move will make accessing data so costly and ...

Optum Labs is providing funding in 2022-'23, which will drive research in precision behavioral health, among other areas of focus. Optum Labs, the research and development arm of UnitedHealth Group, ...