Optum chief executive officer Andrew Witty this week offered a snapshot into the effort UnitedHealth’s UnitedHealthcare insurance business and the Optum health services unit he operates are ...

Within its insurance segment, UnitedHealthcare’s profit margin remained flat at 6.2%. Earnings from operations rose 13.1% to $4.4 billion on revenue growth of 13%, to $70.2 billion.

Optum's AI chatbot was found exposed online at a time when the healthcare giant faces scrutiny for its use of AI to allegedly deny patient claims. ... health insurance conglomerate UnitedHealth, ...

The rapid growth of UnitedHealth Group’s Optum health care services unit will contribute more than 50% of the company’s earnings in 2020, executives disclosed Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019.

UnitedHealth and Optum have a significant interest in helping to build a new coding system, ... Bob Herman covers health insurance, government programs, hospitals, physicians, ...

Optum accidentally charged 249 Medicare Advantage enrollees for the COVID-19 vaccine. The New Mexico Superintendent of Insurance Office said that the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary accidentally ...

Optum and other PBMs, which act as middlemen between insurance plans and manufacturers to negotiate prescription drug prices, have also been named as defendants in the sprawling litigation over ...

The state has hired Optum and an insurance executive to fix the Commonwealth's problem-plagued health exchange, which is still not working properly.

In addition to insurance contracts, Optum has made cuts in staff. Last August, Optum laid off at least 50 Everett Clinic workers, as well as an unknown number of workers from The Polyclinic.