A company veteran has returned to Optum to lead its rapidly growing provider arm. Amar Desai, M.D., wrote in a post on LinkedIn Wednesday that he is "thrilled" to come back to the UnitedHealth Group ...

Leadership changes are afoot at Optum, with parent company UnitedHealth Group announcing that Dr. Patrick Conway will become CEO of the division. Currently the CEO of Optum Rx, Conway has also held a ...

At the start of next year, pharmacy services company Optum Rx will place eight preferred insulin products on Tier One of standard commercial formularies, limiting out-of-pocket spend to $35 or less.

A contract termination between Optum and Humana, as well as the expiration of enhanced tax credits for people covered by ...

An Optum facility is closing in Toledo, Ohio and will affect 129 remote and in-person employees, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) Act filing published late ...

BROCKTON — In March, Steward Health Care, the for-profit corporation that owns Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton and Morton Hospital in Taunton, announced that it had plans to sell their ...

Optum — UnitedHealth Group’s division that controls one of the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers — is moving to improve access and pricing for prescription drugs by cutting some ...

UnitedHealth Group’s Optum health services business Monday made an unsolicited cash offer of more than $3 billion to the board of home health provider Amedisys. The “all-cash offer,” valued at nearly ...

Uber Health users covered by eligible Medicare Advantage plans will soon be able to use their benefit cards to pay for non-emergency medical rides and food and item delivery through the ride-hailing ...

Optum, parent company of ASC chain SCA Health, has seen massive growth, including spending $31 billion on acquisitions in the last two years. Here are 10 major headlines regarding Optum since Jan. 1: ...

Optum Ventures, the venture capital arm of Optum, backed a $70 million series B funding round for Ambience Healthcare, a company that creates AI operating systems for healthcare organizations. Others ...

EVERETT — Goodbye Everett Clinic, hello Optum. The Everett Clinic and The Polyclinic in Seattle will be renamed Optum in April 2024, the clinics’ parent company since 2019 announced in an email to ...