We know Optum Labs is there to make money, selling slots to drug, device companies and others to have the “use” of mining their data. So far all we have had of any significance reported is the same thing Kaiser reported from their registry information on hip…
Continue ReadingIf you haven’t seen this way of outsourcing hospital revenue cycling and employees, here’s the latest from the Optum 360 group. It’s a company owned by both Untied and Dignity Health with Optum/United Healthcare being the controlling party. You could certai…
I’m starting to see more doctors in Orange County selling out their practices to United Healthcare’s Optum subsidiary. Sometimes when patients go for their next appointment, in addition to see their doctor’s name on the door, it also now says OptumCare. So …
This should not really come as a big surprise as what hasn’t the pharmacy benefit managment business touched? So what is Patients Who Pay “Cash” When Filling Prescriptions Are Now Called “outliers, Pharmacists Required to Fix outliers as They Show Up As Non …
I had to laugh as somewhere else on the web I read a title of “United embraces Obamacare”, well heck they practically run it so at this point embrace is a funny description to me. We all know that the company lives off constant business intelligence algorith…
I’m sorry I had to laugh at this article as some of the very same problem companies think they can fix healthcare. First off, look at Aetna, who now wants to get out of their agreed reimbursement of doctors based on the AMA settlement from a few years back. …