How many people know that Optum has a bank? They don’t offer any retail services outside of an Health Savings Account to the public but many companies offer this for people who have a high deductible health insurance policy. You can Argus Analytics Produces…
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You read the title correctly as United adds yet one more subsidiary to their almost 400 subsidiary companies. This is indeed marketing that will get more insureed inside one of their networks and of course they are competing with the other insurers as well. …
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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…
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We all know the home drug infusion business is growing as companies send out technicians and clinical personnel to administer treatments at home versus making a trip to the hospital or to the doctor’s office. This is yet one more subsidiary added to the app…
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This has been kicking around out there since Whistleblower lawsuits were filed. Initially Humana was the first target and between United and Humana they have the most at stake here because they have most covered by Medicare Advantage Plans. This goes back to…
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If 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…
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First question out of the barrel might be “how can that be”. It’s really not too difficult to figure out. A short while back United Healthcare bought a pharmacy benefit manager named Catamaran, and actually took on $10 billion in debt to acquire them. This…
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I think all may remember Dr. Zeke Emanuel writing the famous post on the New York Times that basically said he wants to die at age 75 and further insinuated that all of us have served out our usefulness at that age. A little bit more about our healthcare po…
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If you have read here for a while there have been several posts about United Healthcare investments in low income housing and this one is now building an entire community around “services” funded by those paying rent in an apartment building owned by United H…
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When you read through one person gets the health insurance side and the other person gets the other side, Optum. Optum as you know does all kinds of things from wellness, to cheap hearing aids, owns a custodial bank, sells software, integrates EMRs and all…
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This is yet another expansion of the Medicare Advantage Killer Algorithms as the insurer business intelligence methodologies used are designating that these are additional areas that are having an impact on over all profit strategies. This is a process that …
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