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Making health screenings more convenient
At-home kits meet people where they live. The pandemic has changed how people get care — and has increased the desire for at-home offerings. We explored the role that at-home screenings play in this changed world with Debbie Levy, product director, Biometrics, Optum.
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Optum Rx customer obsession
How one Optum Rx employee made the system work better for everyone
States serve members holistically
Lori Halpern and Dennis Vaughan discuss interoperability.
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Advancing health equity: How Optum Rx Is overcoming challenges
Thought leaders discuss the intentional vigilance needed to overcome obstacles impeding better access to health care for all.
Care of the clinician
A 2017 JAMA study showed that 45% of doctors feel at least one symptom of burnout.
Think differently: Strategies for incremental modernization
States can build on a step-by-step approach to modernization, incrementally transforming the user experience without disruption.
Actionable tips for improving your claims denial process
Develop these six characteristics to effectively manage denials and support your organization's revenue integrity.
Tackling the youth mental health crisis
A board-certified adult, child and adolescent, and addiction psychiatrist discusses how to connect children and families to needed behavioral health solutions.
Research report — C-suite check-in: Leading through disruption
We surveyed over 150 C-suite leaders on the state of health care. This report uncovers priorities and challenges across the industry.
3 new first-in-class therapies coming
See how innovation is driving the latest product development.
Inflammatory conditions: Trends, pipeline, management strategies
Hear leaders discuss trends for inflammatory conditions and gain insights on how the market is changing with a deep dive on pipeline, biosimilars, and care management strategies.
Navigating government programs
Learn how small and community-based plans can enter Medicaid programs in our navigating government programs video.
Optimize payment reconciliation and reduce friction
This 2022 brief by Frost & Sullivan identifies how technology solutions can address multiple problems and improve payment processes.
Intelligent Automation Benefits for Health Plans | Optum
See how IA increases the throughput of the retro case developer process, reducing processing time and freeing resources for other high-value tasks.
John Muir Health and AI: A case study in managing costs
Watch the webinar to learn actionable strategies on tackling decreased hospital margins, increased labor costs and staffing shortages.
Four myths: Carving out specialty pharmacy
Integrating specialty pharmacy means better care, lower costs.
3 steps to slash medication costs
This is your guide to reducing your health care spending.
Why equity in women’s health demands an integrated approach
Why equity in women’s health demands an integrated approach
Fertility solution overview
Whether for personal or professional reasons, many couples today are delaying starting a family. However, waiting to conceive can lead to fertility issues — for one partner or both.
Improve access to care with HouseCalls
White Paper: Improve Access to Care With HouseCalls | Optum
Navigating three critical facets of health equity
This toolkit explores what CMOs need to do to lead the way.
Hearts Behind the Work: Meet Our People
Meet the people of Optum who are putting you at the center of everything we do.
Inadequate outcomes: The crisis of health inequity
Get a takeaway and hear from an expert panel on new ways to recognize health inequity and strategies leaders are taking to address it.
A case study on Excel Medical Center
Using digital integration to ease administrative burdens can help you spend more time with patients and deliver positive patient outcomes.
Making Risk Adjustment Programs Work for You
Learn how three care delivery organizations reduced administrative burden to spend more time with patients and improve outcomes.
Annual Optum survey on consumer care preferences
Optum surveyed more than 1,200 consumers to understand their experiences when accessing care. Download this e-book to read our findings.
Connected care
Uncover leader insights and actions for creating a holistic care ecosystem.
Future-ready claims review: automation isn’t enough
As claims grow more complex, many automation methods aren't sophisticated enough for the job. See how payers can take claims review to the next level.
Using advanced data science to predict disease
Learn how combining advanced data science with risk adjustment is leading to early disease detection and prediction.
Global Nurse Advice Line
Supporting mission-critical programs for federal health agencies
Addressing health inequities to improve outcomes for all
CMOs play an important role in creating a safe, equitable health system.
Supporting Youth Mental Health: On-Demand Webinar
Dr. Yusra Benhalim shares insights on the challenges we must overcome to reach youth.
Working together to help end the opioid epidemic
Opioids are powerful drugs with a high risk of misuse and dependence. A comprehensive solution can help address this complex problem.
Becoming financially resilient after COVID-19
We surveyed 105 hospital leaders on their strategies for achieving stronger financial health.
Financially preparing for a chronic condition
Learn about the emotional impact of chronic care and how deeply intertwined health and finances are. This paper also includes ideas for how to financially weather a chronic condition.
Center for Health Equity - The Lewin Group, Part of Optum Serve
See how we help public and private health care leaders, policy makers and researchers support equitable individual and community health.
HouseCalls: Helping to care for members where they are
As demand for home and community care grows, Optum® HouseCalls can reach your Medicare Advantage members and assess members’ health needs.
Modernizing the Medicaid Experience | Optum
How can states and providers use modularity to modernize? Dustin Haisler at GovTech.com interviews Optum product leaders for insights.
Volume 2: Revenue performance for better financial health
Read the white paper for strategies on achieving proper levels of reimbursement, writing off bad debt, and expanding into new service areas.
Supporting providers in the transition to VBC
Learn how value-based care (VBC) partnerships between payers and providers are more important than ever.
Benefits of the Optum care model
Learn five fast facts assisted living communities should know.
Transforming Analytics at Boulder Community Health
Learn how Boulder Community Health is using analytics to make decisions, improve care management and drive growth.
Demonstrating product value with integrated data
A special webinar hosted by MM&M demonstrates how integrated EHR and claims data offers a new foundation for demonstrating product value.
Webinar: Trends and challenges in telehealth
Explore new ways of doing business that allow you to meet shifting customer expectations, workforce challenges and emerging business goals.
Address the complexity of the claims process
Read the interview for insights into how state leaders can reduce administrative cost, and support collaboration with providers
Actualizing high-quality coordinated cancer care
The recently launched Cancer Center in Las Vegas incorporates IOM recommendations, delivering high-quality cancer care for better patient outcomes.
Accelerate your digital transformation
Capitalize on the momentum around digital health solutions.
Breast cancer awareness month
Early detection is critical to fighting breast cancer; advances in technology are helping
Boost efficiency with payment optimization
Optum Advanced Practice Clinician (APC) video
Advanced practice clinicians give personal care
Podcast: Advancing Quit Services for Tobacco Cessation
Hear from experts and explore Quit Services topics for Tobacco Cessation
Automation and workforce strategies for health care
C-suite panel shares six takeaways on how automation can address labor concerns, consumer expectations, inefficiencies and disparities.
Employee Assistance Program for Health Care Workers
Support workers who put others first every day.
Population health management best practices
Learn about industry players in the population health management (PHM) market and what to look for in a best-in-class solution.
What if providers’ clinical data were research-ready?
Providers collect data about patients every day. But what should they be considering — and doing — to put their clinical data to good use?
Enhance R&Q data acquisition with AI and NLP
Learn how digital clinical data, AI and NLP can help health plans get the data they need, when they need it.
Social inequities effect on patient and provider
As clinicians and caregivers to our patients, we bear witness to the inequity of health care. Dr. Oreggio shares experience and advice on opening doors to equal care.
Achieving growth through technology
Modernizing Health Care: Joan's Journey | Optum
The health care system is built on positive intent, but it’s too complex. Joan’s journey illustrates how we’re creating something different.
Optum Global EAP
The Optum Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) is a simple, seamless solution to support your global workforce.
Can Innovation Help the Health Care Workforce Crisis? | Optum
Harvard Business Review Analytic Services and Optum leaders examine human-focused innovations for the health care workforce.
Optum, FDA collaborate on vaccine and biologic research
FDA reaches agreement with life sciences segment of Optum to provide data and expertise to evaluate and research biologics and vaccines.
Combining AI and utilization review improves client value
Understanding Optum360 AI-powered UR services
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A fireside chat with Natalie Pons and Bill Dreitlein
Get ahead of 3 pharmacy trends that will affect your plan
Find out what’s changing the pharmacy market and how it could impact you.
E-book: How payers can evaluate Centers of Excellence
Not all Centers of Excellence are created equal. Here are five questions that payers should keep in mind.
A model market-performance partnership
John Muir Health and Optum partner to advance quality of care.
Expanded scope and efficiency with Optum CAC and CDI 3D
See how one health system partnered with Optum to transform their coding and CDI program.
Data Governance Enables Indiana’s Rapid Response to COVID-19
See how the Hoosier state uses data governance and self-service analytics to monitor, prioritize and quickly respond to COVID-19.
Curious case of costly complications
How can analytics help tell your cost and outcomes story?
An interview with Jamie Freedman, MD, PhD, and Shalini Mohan, MD
This interview about health equity and clinical trials is part of the "Let's talk" conversation series.
Enhancing billing accuracy with provider education
Enhancing billing accuracy with provider education
Decreasing avoidable claim denials with transparency
In this white paper, see how near real-time visibility prevents improper claim denials.
Managing risk in value-based care delivery
Watch as Erik Johnson explores models for risk in delivering value-based care (VBC).
Integrated RWD: the key to accelerating innovation
To maximize the value of clinical innovations, you need dimensional, robust data. Learn about leveraging integrated cost and clinical data.
Boulder Community Health and Optum
Optum partnership insights and strategies enable near- and long-term success for provider organizations.
Key considerations when updating provider management modules
Explore 6 key factors when updating, streamlining and coordinating provider management modules with other Medicaid functions.
Filling revenue cycle resource shortfalls
How to improve efficiency and reduce expenses.
Clinicogenomics Enable Precision Drug Development | Optum
Survey: How patients feel about returning to care amidst COVID-19
Survey: How patients feel about returning to care amidst COVID-19
Real-world data fills rare disease data gaps
Data removes the barriers to understanding rare disease.
Clinicogenomics: new, linked data is advancing research
Rich, longitudinal clinicogenomics data can fuel all stages of drug development.
Health equity in kidney disease management
Learn 5 strategies for health plans to address inequities in the kidney care landscape and create more equitable access, treatment and outcomes for all.
How are you identifying overpayments?
Identifying overpayments after a claim has been paid is a core component of payment integrity.
Symmetry EBM Connect white paper
Evaluate quality of care compared to national standards.
Drug pricing spotlight: Wound care
Combat against brand name products costing 125 times more.
6 guiding steps for selecting a fit-for-purpose data set
Using RWD that are not fit for purpose can waste time and money. Review 6 simple steps to guide your research towards the right data.
2023 Top 10 Payments Trends from Aite-Novarica
Read about the top trends influencing the health care payments industry across the U.S. in 2023.
Leveraging commercial health care technologies
Apply AI and program integrity practices in government.
A New Approach: guidance along the fertility journey
Discover how health plans can set aside ad hoc solutions and adopt a comprehensive approach to improve health outcomes and accessibility to fertility care.
U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command
Optum Serve conducts physical and mental examinations for military applicants.
The time for better payment delivery is now
Market dynamics are driving the need for health care payment innovation. Providers expect fast and reliable payments from health plans.
Build a Culture of Health in the APAC Region
By engaging region-specific expertise, your company can strategically improve the well-being of its employees.
Smart revenue cycle investments rather than deep cost cuts
Strengthen revenue performance with two astute investments.
Unraveling complexity in specialty care
Learn how Optum is streamlining care delivery with insights from patients and providers to improve outcomes and drive down costs.
Everest Group Recognizes Optum as a Leader
The 2021 PEAK Matrix report maps the RCM Business Process Services market.
Managing diabetes gains an 8:1 return on investment
Learn how a third-party administrator’s client improved health outcomes and lowered costs.
Assisted living plan comparison scenario
Keep your SNF-qualified residents with you longer.
Hybrid work schedules impact employer H&W programmes
When we surveyed global employers, we found they are looking to increase the number of health and wellness (H&W) programmes they offer. Find out more.
Interview with Jason Spangler on value assessment frameworks
This interview is part of the "Let's talk" conversation series.
Reassess the Inflation Reduction Act with evidence in mind
Cut through the noise of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 with key points aimed to help life sciences leaders leverage impactful data.
Improve your ROI with the help of Optum Claims Manager
Flexible claims management tool drives down denials
NEJM Catalyst Q&A: Value-based care
Dr. Wyatt Decker discusses the path forward for value-based care including implementation challenges, benefits and keys to success.
How to eliminate prescription waste
Achieve savings by targeting expensive, low-value drugs.
Using Your EHR to Accelerate Digital Health
Explore how a thoughtful approach to EHR can impact the health care digital journey and help an organization achieve its business goals.
Breaking through vaccine fatigue: Top 4 reasons to get yours
New flu and Covid bugs are coming. Time to boost your immunity.
5 ways shift-of-site care is a win for all women
With unique needs, women benefit greatly from a wider array of care options. Payers and employers can reap big rewards by providing them.
Modernizing clinical trials with EHRs
Discover how Optum and three provider organizations leveraged EHR systems to modernize a clinical trial aimed at diabetes treatment.
Supporting those who serve
Optum Serve is proud to support Military Service Members, Veterans and their families.
Optum Quit For Life
Discover the difference of an evidence-based program that offers a truly personalized approach and blends technology with a human touch.
Improving care, outcomes and costs
Achieve better care through understanding the customer, not just the patient.
Critical Steps to Navigating Change Management
See how an effective change management strategy can help people adapt to change more quickly and nimbly.
The fight for techquity
Get ideas for how to fundamentally change your approach to building technology and incorporate techquity into your organization.
Supporting care for at-risk minors
Learn about a lightweight, scalable foster-family placement system developed for one Northeastern state.
Patient-generated health data and the IoT
New wave of connected devices enables continuous care
Reconcile your RWD expectations to maximize your investment
Understand how routine clinical practice impacts information captured in real-world data (RWD).
Optum Rx customer obsession video
How one Optum Rx employee made the system work better for everyone
4 marketing questions health care leaders should ask
Learn the four essential data-centric marketing questions every health care leader should ask.
Develop your growth strategy
Our research has uncovered four main reasons today’s planning executives struggle to find the right data to make the best decisions.
Why you should prioritize digital payments
Digital payment processing doesn’t have to be a daunting task. Here's why it should be at the top of your priority list.
Driving a frictionless digital patient experience
Watch the webinar to learn how to reduce friction points impacting the digital journey and preventing patients from getting in the door.
Navigate the workforce challenge
Identify root causes of workforce upheaval and how to adjust policies, procedures and practices for stability and long-term growth.
Creating connections through partnerships
Hear from an Optum Rx client on how we're partnering together for everyone we serve.
2021 PEAK Matrix Report : HealthCare Top 20
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The Importance of Utilization Review for Hospitals in the COVID-19 Era
This Optum360 article shows how a high-performing utilization review process with fully leveraged AI can help hospitals preserve revenue integrity.
Let's Talk: Conversations from Optum Life Sciences
Discover what’s on the minds of innovative life science leaders with thought -provoking insights and discussions.
Toward Outcomes-Based Payments
Learn from industry leaders about the push to generate evidence and demonstrate value for health care provider value.
The American Rescue Plan and public health
ARP is an opportunity for state governments to improve public health through investment, infrastructure and innovation.
How to help patients prevent long-term cognitive complications
Despite the complexity of concussion, primary care providers are in a unique position to give life-altering advice to their patients.
Advancing three critical dimensions of health equity
Here's how CEOs can cultivate a culture that questions bias, embraces diversity and actively improves health equity.
Achieve Accuracy and Efficiency in Claim Pricing
Create a framework that drives first-pass adjudication.
Sustainability through partnership
See how Boulder Community Health partnered with Optum to continue to successfully fund its mission.
Gene therapy: How to prepare for a growing pipeline
The unprecedented cost of gene therapies requires a fundamental rethinking of how treatment costs are managed.
Biosimilars to save billions in this decade
Prices for popular brand-name biologics drop up to 60% with generic-equivalent biosimilars.
Five things your denial rate isn't telling you
Learn 5 ways to make changes that will prevent and remediate denied claims.
Optum Evidence Engine
Optum Evidence Engine unlocks the power of personalized, precision health care to help advance disease detection and treatment.
How to manage medication overload
Hear from a leader's perspective on how to manage polypharmacy.
Leverage AI-powered CDI and coding
CDI programs are expanding to support risk adjustment initiatives. Integrated CDI technologies are needed to support revenue and integrity.
Defining the future of alternate-site infusion pharmacy care
Optum tackles the many issues infusion pharmacy care faces as it serves vulnerable patients with acute needs and complex conditions.
Analytics in payer-oncologist partnerships
See 4 ways that payers can help health care providers unlock the power of real-world data to drive quality and innovation in cancer care.
Supporting our kids
Mental health needs are increasing in youth. Experts share their insights on how to best support them so they can grow into healthy adults.
5 things to know about the new landscape of fertility benefits
More and more, benefits leaders see the value of reproductive health — and it’s changing how they approach offerings.
Digital Front Door Strategy Improves Patient Experience
Discover how a digital patient engagement strategy can provide easier access, reduce cancellations, and enhance front-end collections.
Pilot Program Lowers Cardiovascular Disease Risk
An innovative program involving patient awareness and provider outreach improves patient use of lipid-lowering therapies.
Behavioral Health Provider Digital Access Survey | Optum
COVID-19 Area Vulnerability Index
Prioritize resources and optimize care to fight COVID-19.
Bassett Healthcare Network Blazes a Bold Path Forward with Optum
Bassett Healthcare Network Blazes a Bold Path Forward with Optum
The path to techquity
New research explores how to advance health equity through intentional, inclusive design and deployment of technology in health care.
More inclusive MSK care: how can employers help?
Discover what employers can do to support all employees who may be coping with costly and common musculoskeletal conditions.
The secret to lowering the total cost of care
Rising pharmacy costs concern everyone. Managing the underlying health conditions behind each prescription is key to addressing these high costs.
Viewpoints on the 2024 CMS Advance Notice
In this webinar, health plans will hear Optum viewpoints on the proposed CMS changes and how they may affect your MA plan. Be prepared now.
Symmetry Oncology Analytics
Powerful tools measure the cost and quality of cancer care.
Personalized care: Focusing on the member
Hear from Optum Rx chief of operations, Jon Mahrt
Cost breakthroughs in complex care management
Not every complex care management program is built equally. Here's how to optimize them for maximum benefits.
Wellness Coaching helps motivate employees
As a wellness coach, I connect employees with tools and resources that align with their health and wellbeing goals.
Value Transformation at Keck Medicine of USC
Value Transformation at Keck Medicine of USC
A/R recovery services revenue continuity
Provider maintains A/R continuity during HIS conversion.
Which rules will impact pharmacy in 2023?
2023 is already a busy year for pharmacy regulation. Read about the latest regulations that could impact you and your pharmacy benefit plan.
Maximize Clinical Trial Enrollment
Use clinical and claims data to conduct precision patient finding.
Balancing health choices, cost and outcomes
The health care system has fewer resources than ever and struggles to provide care when and where people need it. How can employers support their workforces?
Accelerate drug development with clinicogenomic RWE
Optum, Novartis and GuardantINFORM experts discuss the ever-increasing importance of clinicogenomic data during this Endpoints News webinar.
Rules impacting pharmacy: Summer 2023 legislative sessions
Learn what's at stake as the Senate considers PBM legislation.
Top 5 HSA Questions That Employees Ask | Optum Financial
Digital scheduling at a rural health system
Learn how a rural health system achieved an ideal patient experience and increased bookings with digital scheduling.
Health and wellbeing now a top priority, say employers
Optum surveyed 347 global employers and found employee health and wellbeing (H&W) is a top priority — and it’s increasing in importance over time.
2022 International Wellness in the Workplace Study
Optum surveyed large employers around the world to better understand current health and well-being strategies and practices. Explore findings from our survey.
Pinpoint asthma, COPD and ACOS with EHR data
Optum study highlights clinical clues in asthma and COPD.
Partnering to reduce fraud, waste and abuse
We partner with federal agencies to address challenges and support their unique needs through technologies, solutions and best practices.
Navigating the rapid growth of healthcare data
Optum Advisory experts share how their actuarial consultants help providers reduce care fragmentation and increase coordination.
Connect your patients to funds and support with FundFinder
Help your patients afford their medications and connect to funds from charitable organizations with FundFinder.
Addressing challenges with CDI and coding
Read the success story to hear how Optum technology helped increase John Muir Health's monthly CDI case review average by 22%
Driving Hospital and Health System Growth strategy
Explore a collection of best practices for health systems.
Forward-thinking strategies for 2022
Explore this video series featuring insights for Life Sciences leaders, delivered by experts from across health care.
Deliver program integrity efficiencies
Curb fraud, waste and abuse for federal agencies.
Enterprise IT strategies with HIMSS and Optum
Scott Gaydos of Optum shares how enterprise IT strategies provide numerous opportunities to improve and transform health care.
Integrated in‑home and in‑office assessments program
Help manage care and improve quality by providing members in-home and in-office care assessment options through one streamlined approach.
Supporting providers with a custom approach
Health plan assessment programs for value-based care help both physicians and patients.
Webinar: Slowing the Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease
Explore insights into better care management and cost reduction.
New symmetry oncology analytics
Learn how your organization can reduce costs and advance quality.
Visualizing fraud, waste and abuse
Graph analytics and machine learning drive the future of program integrity.
Navigating Forward: C-suite check-in — Research findings state of health care
Find out what 161 C-suite health care leaders think about how COVID-19 has changed the industry — and where we still must make progress.
Human Centered Design in Health Care
This Optum white paper shows how human-centered design builds technology and programs that are easy and intuitive for consumers to use.
Optum Serve health technology and consulting solutions
Improving health across the nation to serve our federal customers
Impact member care with in-home assessments
Download the infographic to learn more about how in-home assessments can uniquely impact SDOH.
Get competitive with coding and CDI analytics
Watch the demo to learn how our analytics platform provides custom, value-added reports with the data insights you want.
What’s changing the PBM industry?
In this conversation, learn from Optum Rx thought leaders on how access, affordability and transparency have become imperatives for pharmacy benefit management.
Making a better future for mental health care
Guide members to the right behavioral health care when they need it.
Assess drug performance with the power of integrated data
Inform research and commercial strategy with data insights.
How Health Equity Can Be a Catalyst for Growth
Providing better care for the underserved is vital for healthier communities. It can also be a wise strategy to unlock organizational growth.
Delivering on the promise of fertility care
As a highly specialized area of care, fertility treatment is a significant cost driver for health plans and employers.
Artificial intelligence and the changing role of case managers
AI can help manage new responsibilities.
John Muir Health & Optum: A Model IT Performance Partnership
Learn how John Muir Health advanced patient care through rapid IT integration, modernization and optimization.
Workplace fitness benefits: What employers should know
Employers must adjust their fitness programs to meet employees' evolving fitness needs. Here’s how to bring your offerings into the new era.
Achieving Growth Through Technology: Part 2
Building a connected care model
An expert panel explores elements of a whole-health approach.
Digital medicine that delights
Dr. Sonia Samagh from the Center for Digital Health is hard at work bringing the many digital tools available into an environment that becomes our “way of being” rather than another tool in the toolkit.
Pharmacy Insights Podcast
Listen to our resident experts discuss critical industry challenges and the solutions you need to control rising drug costs.
5 keys to digital health care transformation
Transform operations, better manage business processes and improve outcomes.
Social Determinants of Type 2 Diabetes
This study analyzes how social determinants of health (SDOH) variables impact the incidence and progression of Type 2 diabetes.
Research revolution: Optum Labs
Optum Labs is launching a study for a COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment. Through the power of data, every patient will receive the treatment. This approach gives quick results for practical problems.
Smart formulary management
Developing and managing formularies that bring clinical and financial value
Reflections on PCMA's recent Annual Meeting
Total cost of care and value-based arrangements between manufacturers and payers is top of mind of HEOR and Medical Affairs leaders.
Health care network planning & optimization success
Learn how leaders can use data and analytics to make informed decisions on their network and drive actionable conversations with providers.
Antiracism and inclusion
Optum saw the value in a project for a community cohort, Leadership for Racial Equity, and quickly worked to create a national strategy.
Case Study: Advanced Pharmacy Audit Services
How a health plan saved more than $1 million
Drive wellbeing programme utilisation
Strengthen your international wellbeing programme with an integrated health promotion specialist.
Struggling to balance paperwork and patients?
You may be missing out on health plan services that can help.
Redirecting Specialty Infusion Costs by Redirecting Site of Care
See how you can lower your plan costs by up to 52%.
Cost optimization strategies to restore financial health
Watch the webinar for insights on disruptive market forces, the health care economy, cost-management efforts and managing operating costs.
Disruptive current events make traditional UR models obsolete
Learn five ways to use new processes and technology to improve UR.
Support for substance use disorders
Expand access to evidence-based support to help individuals achieve stabilization and sustain recovery.
Addressing health equity barriers in cancer care
Discover the 5 pillars of equity-driven member navigation.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
We utilize RPA to advance federal government programs.
Keeping your data secure is mission critical
See how we help prevent costly, disruptive cyberattacks.
Smartsourcing healthcare: A perspective
Optum360 shares an e-book on how provider partnerships can help accelerate growth and financial performance as an alternative to traditional models.
Gene therapies: Can we afford the future of medicine?
Learn how to manage financial risk as gene therapies become more commonplace.
Computer-assisted coding helps company with continued growth
See how ACS used Optum CAC Professional for computer-assisted coding to expand medical coding and billing operations and navigate the ICD-10 transition.
Veterans Benefits Administration
They honored their commitment. It's time to honor ours.
3 new drugs to watch this fall
As the year begins to close, we highlight three essential pipeline drugs with an expected U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decision this fall.
Value-based insurance and network design
Optum has access to one of the industry’s largest health care data assets and many of the industry’s top professionals.
Preparing for the future of life sciences
Life sciences leaders are thinking differently with data to support novel strategies.
John Muir Health Clinical Operations Video
See how John Muir partnered with Optum to enable a seamless consumer experience.
Extending an independent lifestyle for seniors
The Optum differentiator helps communities attract and retain residents.
Real-world data centralized teams
Expanding the use of RWD requires expertise and leadership.
Defending emergency department reimbursement
Learn how to strengthen your ED visit-level determinations.
Improving access to behavioral health services
See how Optum helped one state visualize utilization and demographic data around behavioral health programs.
5 questions: Premium Value formulary
Hear from OptumRx SVP of clinical & formulary services
MMIS Game-Changer: Collaborative Contracting
NASPO ValuePoint helps states streamline procurement.
Building public confidence with health data
See how the FDA and Optum use real-world evidence to monitor the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in our youngest populations.
Avasant Healthcare Payor Digital Services
Avasant's annual RadarView report helps healthcare payors craft a robust strategy for digital transformation based on industry outlook and best practices.
Emotional wellbeing support
Help your workforce take charge of their health, so they can be more resilient and present every day.
Will diabetes drugs help us tackle obesity?
Discover four things to know about new uses of GLP-1 drugs.
OPA for HHS: See how it works
Accelerate your state's efforts to address health inequity.
Navigating ‘The Great Resignation’
A Q&A about workforce trends, obstacles and solutions
What’s the biggest challenge to health and wellbeing programme success in LATAM?
Employers in the LATAM region said employee physical and mental health are among the greatest challenges for their health and wellbeing (H&W) programmes. Find out what else we learned when Optum surveyed 347 global employers.
Viewpoints on the 2025 CMS Advance Notice
Don't miss this exclusive webinar and the chance to learn how your Medicare Advantage plan can better prepare for the 2025 changes.
Help Improve Your Members' Health with Optum HouseCalls
Medicare Advantage members receiving in-home assessments saw reductions in emergency department visits and inpatient hospital stays across 4 conditions.
Market Performance Partnership: John Muir Health & Optum
Our integrated partnership model provides meaningful and measurable results.
An interview with Sheenu Kachru on trends in the life sciences
This interview is part of the "Let's talk" conversation series.
Comprehensive payment integrity savings
Inform and improve your entire claims management lifecycle.
Address the challenge of Innovation
Ideation Hubs: Address the challenge of Innovation | Optum
Arkansas' New Approach to Medicaid Management
See how data and analytics help Arkansas manage one of the state's most vital and widely used government programs.
Combating the opioid epidemic
Medication interventions save lives — more people need access to them.
HIMSS and Optum talk EHR strategies
Dr. John Kontor of Optum shares how EHR strategies provide numerous opportunities to improve and change health care.
The next biosimilar wave has arrived. Now what?
In this conversation, learn about a new class of biosimilars and what this means for competition, cost and volume in the PBM market.
Support for long-term recovery
Find substance use disorder treatment that includes evidence-based resources and compassionate care for members and their communities.
Changes to risk adjustment are coming. Are you prepared?
Learn how your practice may need to evolve to proactively anticipate the upcoming changes announced in April related to MA and Part D.
How will you get to interoperability?
Watch the 10-minute demo to see how Optum Interoperability and Patient Access Services can help your state comply with CmS's final rule
Lowest net cost and your bottom line
Learn about strategies to achieve the lowest net cost of prescription drugs through formularies, biosimilars and our Vigilant Drug Program.
Is your pharmacy benefit manager delivering value?
4 key questions you should be asking.
Ensuring responsible use of AI in health care
See how we use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone.
Cancer costs are rising — are you ready?
AI advances the revenue cycle
The use of NLP makes the revenue cycle work smarter, not harder.
The Health Equity Alignment Solution (HEALS)
HEALS is a data analytics solution that highlights where and how inequities occur within a community, state or a health plan’s member population.
Patient-Centered Care Centers of Excellence
Optum's Centers of Excellence improve outcomes through patient-centered care.
Member experience and the path to 4+ Stars performance
Focus on member experience to impact 2023 Star Ratings.
Maximizing effectiveness of physician advisors within the hospital
Provide the right support to achieve program goals.
2023 trends shaping life sciences strategies
Life sciences market experts from Optum and Advisory Board offer their bold predictions and insights in 2023 for the industry.
Building resilience: Mental health lessons from COVID-19
COVID-19 has negatively affected many people's mental health, but will anything good come out of it?
Mental Health: Optum Addresses the Great Information Divide
Explore the challenges and opportunities in mining mental health data for individuals and communities.
When ‘Is it safe for me?’ changes to ‘Is it safe for us?’
Studying the impact of treatments on pregnancy and infants can help patients, providers and pharmaceutical companies make key decisions.
Star ratings are important to Medicare Plans
Learn how health plans can improve Star ratings through high-touch strategies.
Consumer beliefs driving health care growth and retention
Understand the impact of consumer beliefs on everything from growth and clinical outcomes to patient acquisition and satisfaction.
Taking the Blinders Off Cancer Through Immunotherapy
Webinar: Taking the Blinders Off Cancer Through Immunotherapy
The HouseCalls difference: Kim's story
Kim, a HouseCalls advanced clinician practitioner, believes a good day is when she’s helped someone. Watch the video to see her story.
Experts agree: PBMs add value, lower costs
PBMs don’t cause high drug costs — they’re part of the solution. Our drug prices beat the “low cost” vendors.
Health and wellbeing offerings attract and retain talent
See what our 2022 Global Employer Insights Survey says about health and wellbeing (H&W) strategies and practices to help recruitment and retention.
Navigating the rapid growth of health care data
Optum Advisory experts share how their actuarial consultants help providers reduce care fragmentation and increase coordination.
5 trends that defined pharmacy in 2023
See which trends are shaping the present and future of pharmacy care services.
Digital equity across the health care system
Remove gaps and improve digital access for everyone.
Optum My Wellbeing
For employers, My Wellbeing provides information about employees’ health, which can be used to help understand their needs and develop strategies to support them.
Health system boosts reach with payer channel scheduling
St. Luke’s Health dramatically increased volumes and decreased costly no shows with Optum digital scheduling. Learn how your system can, too.
HouseCalls travels far and wide to support members’ health
The HouseCalls program provides health plans with annual in-home clinical assessments for Medicare Advantage members available in 50 states.
Achieving health equity: Actionable analytics unlock improved outcomes
By applying analytics solutions, states can create a comprehensive roadmap to better health equity.
Priority Identification Vaccine Operating Tool (PIVOT)
PIVOT provides the data analytics and visualization needed to optimize planning, administration and monitoring of vaccines.
Vaccine cold chain
Vaccine cold chain is a temperature-controlled supply chain process that maintains the potency of vaccines during the storage and distribution process.
Optum Quit Services
Discover the difference of an evidence-based program that offers a truly personalized approach and blends technology with a human touch.
Connecting the dots: Data-driven transformation
Connecting the Dots: Data-driven Transformation | Optum
Case Study: UMass utilizes analytics to improve adult immunizations
Population health analytics drive UMass participation in the AMGA AI Collaborative
Personalized support for members with autism
Optum is breaking barriers in supporting members and families who are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
A new approach to rising specialty costs
See how contracting with medical providers can reduce drug costs
Moving toward preemptive kidney transplants
Avoiding dialysis in favor of organ transplant can yield better patient outcomes and lower health care costs. So why is it still uncommon?
Evidence-based Clinical Practice Guidelines for DoD and VA
Improve continuity of care by reducing variation in practice for service members transitioning to Veteran status.
3 ways to deal with escalating drug costs
Innovations custom built for today’s specialty challenges.
3 ways to address vaccine fatigue
Learn about researched vaccine messaging themes and important steps you can take to promote critical vaccinations for members.
Outlook on oncology 2023
See how emerging trends, including a global pandemic, are reshaping the landscape of oncology care and medication.
Addressing adolescent mental health
Find solutions and resources for employers and health plans to support adolescent and caregiver mental health.
Automation Drives Success for Health Systems
Discover innovative strategies to improve financial health.
How AdventHealth leverages precision marketing
For Working in Health Care, Positive Future Awaits
Sarah King, chief client officer, highlights how we can work together to overcome workforce challenges and forge a new path forward.
Mobile clinic brings care to the community
Southwest Medical bridges the access gap with their mobile clinic by meeting patients where they are.
Optum Rx Drug Pipeline Insights Reports
Read the most recent quarterly reports on new drugs coming down the pipeline.
Support state Medicaid agency goals for members
Find out how a person-centered approach can help.
Optimize Patient Access with Automation and Technology
This webinar shares best practices for optimizing patient access with automation and consumer-centric technology strategies.
Third Annual Optum Survey - AI in Health Care
AI on the rise: Health leaders turn to tech in the pandemic.
The Impact of In-home Health Assessments
Learn about the benefits of HouseCalls assessments with these 5 fast facts.
Closing the Gaps in Pain Management
Find out how coordinated, personalized care helps advance treatment of chronic pain in senior communities.
Family-building inequities
Read how payers can turn the tide on 5 worrisome statistics.
Clinical intelligence: The smartest revenue cycle investment
Our white paper shows how investing in smart technologies supports the revenue cycle from patient registration through full reimbursement.
Solve contract challenges for gene therapies
Gene therapies have the potential to be transformative, but there are hurdles to overcome for value-based contracts to become widespread.
The financial case for connected care
Get thought starters for assessing how a connected care model can strengthen your financial position.
Thrive or crumble: Partnerships are a new area of growth
Read the article from Nick Howell and Chris Pass to learn the successes and lessons of the partnership between John Muir Health and Optum.
Health Care Interoperability Solutions
Optum Interoperability and Patient Access Services can help your state comply with CMS' final rule. View our overview video to find out how.
Accelerating growth in the health economy
Learn how to secure market relevance in a shifting landscape.
Insights on improved care through technology and scale
John Muir Health shares how the organization uses technology to reach those in need of health care services.
Tools for coping with depression
If you feel you’re struggling with depression, these tools are a starting point to help.
2023 3rd Annual C-suite Research Report
How are market dynamics impacting decision-making across health care? Research report examines progress, challenges and priorities in 2023.
Overturning concurrent denials at Uniontown Hospital
Maximizing peer-to-peer reviews with an on-site physician advisor
Innovative approaches to collaborate with PCP's
Understanding the challenges confronting Medicare Advantage plans and their Medical Loss Ratio.
HouseCalls: Fewer Emergency Visits, Hospital Stays
HouseCalls: Fewer Emergency Visits, Hospital Stays
How are global employers driving employee engagement in health and wellness programmes?
Optum surveyed 347 global employers to better understand current health and wellbeing (H&W) practices. Employers told us how they’re motivating employees to engage in their own wellbeing.
Quality Fitness Benefits Are Crucial for Employers | Optum
Five tactics to unlock potential
Data and analytics to improve care experiences and outcomes.
How Optum supports value-based goals with powerful products
Optum supports value-based goals with powerful products.
Breakthroughs in kidney care
Explore the most promising innovations in renal care for people with chronic kidney disease.
Unlocking the promise of personal medicine
See how a peek at your genes enables more precise prescribing.
6 workforce strategies for health care leaders
Strengthen and inspire your health care workforce. Our actionable toolkit offers new strategies to reconnect with talent, simplify workflows and more.
Support the four pillars of wellbeing
International wellness expert Rayson Ng shares how companies can design wellbeing programmes to build a culture of health.
Medicare enrollment: How a licensed insurance agent can help
6 growth trends for patient-centric health care
Learn strategies you can use to differentiate your health system from your competitors.
Four steps to an enterprise data strategy
Explore the steps for creating a real-world data strategy that helps life sciences companies to maximize their data investments.
The value of DEX Z-Codes in the commercial space
Optum and Palmetto experts partner in discussing how to solve genetic lab challenges in legacy solutions.
Kidney Disease Care: A Comprehensive Approach
Find out how an integrated approach produces better outcomes for renal disease — a common, complex and costly condition.
Optum Forum 2021: Regional One Health
Case Advisor contributes to utilization review success.
Automate fraud, waste and abuse
Learn how artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) can help federal agencies improve program integrity, cut costs and deter fraud.
Getting ahead of the mental health crisis
See how leaders are advancing data strategies, screenings and exploring ways to connect consumers to mental health support.
Easier access to mental health services
Learn how Refresh Mental Health used online scheduling to simplify consumer access to mental health care.
An interview with Chris Boone, PhD on precision medicine
This interview is part of the "Let's talk" conversation series.
Redefining the prior authorization process
How we are revamping the prescribing process
Preventing suicide among our nation's veterans
See how Optum Serve, along with the PREVENTS Initiative, is helping in the collective effort to eliminate suicide among military and Veteran populations.
Innovations in Health Monitoring, Care Management & Support
Linking health care and public health data improves care management, clinical care, and public health reporting and monitoring.
2022 Analytics and AI survey from Advisory Board Research
ABR surveyed 250 strategy and analytics leaders.
Can automation cure workforce challenges?
Rethink how to support workers, while simplifying and improving care.
The Physician Liaison Outreach Playbook
The Optum Physician Liaison Outreach Playbook gives physician liaisons best practices, tools and templates for effective physician relationship-building.
Mitigating maternal care deserts
For some mothers-to-be, health care options are disturbingly limited — or even nonexistent.
Four steps to a RWD enterprise strategy
Lou Brooks, SVP, Real-World Data and Analytics at Optum
Basset Healthcare partnering insights
Tommy Ibrahim, MD, CEO of Bassett Healthcare Network, shares insights on reinventing a health system for success.
Specialty Pharmacy 101
Specialty pharmacies deliver high-touch services to help patients stay adherent to treatment plans and live healthier lives.
Optum CAC offers automatic review of physician selected coding
Coding review module monitors for results.
Understanding college students' mental health needs
Read about the realities of campus behavioral health care and how we can make it better.
Is Your Real-World Data Research Ready?
Real-world data can help evaluate the effectiveness of medications and therapies, which is why evaluation should be part of the investment.
Explore five priorities to improve financial performance
Explore five priorities to improve financial performance
SNFs Improve Care & Business Outcomes for Facilities
The Optum Care Model Helps SNFs Meet Strategic Goals
4 new drugs to watch this year
Breakthrough treatments for menopause, Alzheimer's and hemophilia are coming.
Opening the digital doors to all consumers
A strategy guide for expanding access and health equity.
Digital Claim Payments Can Save You Money
Discover 4 ways health plans can save money today, and into the future. by engaging with a digital claim payment partner.
How has the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped work?
We surveyed large employers around the world to understand health and well-being strategies and practices. Find out what they said about offices and schedules.
Guided help for mental health support
We’re making it easier for people to access care.
How to achieve more inclusive MSK care
Musculoskeletal conditions are costly, common and fraught with health inequities. Here’s how a more holistic approach can help payers better serve all members.
The bedside research revolution
Optum Care Research and Innovation is an internal research support system that shows research is an integral part of care delivery.
Reimagining senior care to meet changing demands
Find out how Medicare Advantage plans can improve your residents’ experience with more supportive, holistic care.
Targeted care and lower cost: How one state achieved both
One state achieved both in delivering home health services.
Clinicogenomics: The next big leap in real-world data
Optum clinical genomics is positioned to shape a new generation of evidence that accelerates understanding of disease.
Preparing a strategy roadmap for government programs entry
Amy Jensen, VP of Optum Advisory Services, outlines requirements for a new market expansion.
Engage providers to impact member outcomes
Download our infographic to learn how Optum can take the burden off of payers to impact provider performance.
The customer experience trap
Learn why consumer loyalty is decreasing while innovation in customer experience is increasing.
Population Health in the Digital Age
Introducing population health technology of the future
Evolving clinical trials from paper to digital
Accelerate research through a digitized model.
Meet the rising demand from seniors to age in place
In-home assessments can improve outcomes, reduce health care costs and align with member preference.
Life Sciences: Top stakeholder questions to consider
Ask your stakeholders what they need early on. Consider these top questions that patients, providers, payers and regulators are looking to answer.
Optum Neurology Center of Excellence
When you work with the Optum Neurology Center of Excellence, we provide helpful resources so you can spend more time with your patients.
How fully leveraged AI solutions surpass traditional UR systems
Learn four ways AI expands your reach and effectiveness.
Intelligent automation improves underwriting results
Machine learning coupled with software features and cost-tuning delivered significantly improved predictive value and underwriting results.
Specialty drug prices giving you sticker shock?
See how Specialty Compass defuses exploding drug costs.
Regulations to watch: Fall 2023
Learn what's at stake as the PBM legislation advances on Capitol Hill.
Achieving Success In Claims Editing
Learn best practices around delivery models, content and rule definition.
DocASAP Digital Scheduling for Health Plans
Request a demo of DocASAP to learn how we help payers drive more appointments and improve member satisfaction.
"No regret" IT investments for health systems
Learn which tech investments can benefit providers most today.
How VBC can work for manufacturers
Value-based contracts can present challenges that must be overcome to bring gene therapies to market.
Self-Scheduling Boosts Access and Reduces Staff Burden
Learn how ProHealth Physicians used self-guided online scheduling to ease administrative burden and rebound patient volume.
Flexing seniors’ brains and social muscles
Medicare Advantage plans can differentiate supplementary programs by addressing cognitive health and social interaction.
5 questions: Optum Rx chief pharmacy officer
Michael Einodshofer addresses the risks, challenges and opportunities facing the industry.
Your roadmap for driving growth
Use data and analytics to form your business development roadmap.
Connected communities
A panel discussion examines how to use data-driven, virtual and automated technologies to advance and refine population health strategies.
Do employers care about employee financial wellbeing?
We surveyed 347 global employers to learn more about the importance of employee financial health in health and wellbeing (H&W) strategy.
How to Respond to COVID-19 Disparities in Health Care | Optum
In this Optum Serve issue brief, data and analytics show why health disparities occur and how to address them to drive better outcomes across all populations.
Teaming up with task force movement
Learn how Optum Serve is helping to advance the health and well-being of Veterans and spouses in the trucking and cybersecurity workforce.
Combat health care payment fraud
Health care fraud statistics are staggering. Your organization can reduce fraud by offering secure payment methods.
Care Pathways study
Mental health specialists serve a critical role in reducing total cost of care for plan sponsors.
3 Ways Digital Movement Is Reshaping Member Experiences | Optum
When to refer: PCP guide to Pap exams
Pap smears and HPV immunizations have become fundamental elements of preventive care for women.
Optum Care Model & UnitedHealthcare Assisted Living Plan
Support residents living in a senior living community.
Optimize member engagement through collaboration with Optum
A health plan increased in-home assessment rates for their Medicare Advantage members by working with Optum to increase member engagement.
Spend more time with members and less time on paperwork
See how prospective assessment programs can reduce administrative burden and allow physicians to focus on what matters most: member care
Best practices for reducing provider abrasion
Find out what is driving the recent increase in abrasion and learn what health plans can do to alleviate provider pain points.
Giving patients a clear look at their care
A better patient experience through price transparency
Reinventing a health system for success
Learn about the Bassett Healthcare and Optum partnership.
Realizing the full potential of clinicogenomics
Join Optum genomics experts as they discuss the progress being made to develop datasets that will aid in drug discovery and development.
Overcoming challenges to managing costs in health care
A Q&A about opportunities to improve margin performance
Grow with physician and consumer-driven insights
Support your hospital’s volume and revenue growth goals
Addressing the root causes of mental health disparities
Discover steps and strategies to reduce disparities among vulnerable populations and remove barriers for more equitable mental health care.
Maximize Recoveries with Subrogation
Identify, investigate and recover medical and disability payments related to accidents.
Health Equity & Women's Health
Create meaningful change for the women in your workforce.
New indicators of growth
Learn how to measure the success of consumer relationships in today's market.
Increasing at-home dialysis for ESRD patients | Optum
See why home-dialysis patients tend to fare better than in-clinic patients, and how patient-centric kidney care management helps them make informed choices.
Slowing the specialty pharmacy carve-out stampede
The WellMed Bridges palliative care program
Patients with serious illness should not have to choose between curative and palliative treatment. That is the theory behind the WellMed Bridges program.
Viewpoints on the 2024 CMS Final Notice
Download the interactive executive summary to learn how your health plan can prepare.
Staying current in your core admin platform
Get current, stay current and leverage the newest platform capabilities with ongoing release management.
Whistleblowers: The hidden auditors within your organization
Dr. Kurt Hopfensperger discusses the laws and impact of whistleblowers, and offers hospitals tips to protect themselves.
Natural language processing (NLP) and risk adjustment
We help to explain the role and benefits of NLP in risk adjustment programs.
Targeted marketing can fine-tune your consumer reach
Targeted marketing can fine-tune your consumer reach
Excela Health and Optum partner to serve the local community
This video discusses how Excela Health and Optum are working together to create financial sustainability and serve the local community.
Leveraging Technology in Quit Services for Tobacco Cessation
Technology, tobacco products and who uses tobacco are changing, and Optum Quit Services are evolving to meet those changes.
New mandatory CMS reporting rules will impact states
To meet the requirements, states should consider focusing on five key areas.
What’s the biggest challenge to health and wellbeing programme success in EMEA?
When Optum surveyed 347 global employers, companies in EMEA said understanding employees’ needs was one of their main challenges.
Testimonial: Overturning concurrent denials
See how one client strengthened its utilization review.
Quick-reference oncology drug guide
This interactive guide makes it easy for prescribers to find the drug information they need to get patients started on their therapy.
Impact story: Collaboration to drive long-term care forward
Impact story: Collaboration to drive long-term care forward
Alzheimer's treatment: Time for a level-set?
See success rates, risks and costs of the new Alzheimer’s treatments.
Specialty and Weight Loss Webinar
Hear how weight loss drugs are shaping traditional and specialty spend.
Clinical and claims data: A powerful combination
Get a snapshot of the pros/cons of clinical and claims data.
4 key forces shaping the future of pharmacy
These emerging trends will help define the road ahead.
Developing a best-in-class middle revenue cycle for hospitals
Explore the six focus areas for improving performance.
John Muir Health Partnership Insights
Learn how to lean into a partnership and determine the most important things to your organization and how to achieve them.
Creating better behavioral health care
We help people find care and support that’s easy to understand and access.
Four steps to optimizing value-based care
Learn how combining these steps can help power a holistic workflow between payers and care delivery.
PMSA Webinar: Avoiding common RWD pitfalls
Optum experts give a snapshot of commonly encountered pitfalls when using RWD and recommendations to help avoid them in this PMSA webinar.
White paper: Defragment care with in-home assessments
In-home assessments can help to improve mental health and other social determinants for seniors. Read about the HouseCalls approach.
Improve Women's Health with Community-Based Solutions
Improve Women's Health with Community-Based Solutions | Optum
Support for your entire workforce
Invest in your organization’s most valuable asset — the people — with solutions for everyday life.
Trends and perspectives for health plans
Driving toward the same things for our health care system — better quality, lower cost, and higher consumer and provider satisfaction.
How hospitals can maintain operational and financial viability
Read this white paper to learn strategies that can help critical access and independent hospitals remain viable in their communities.
Connecting Patients to Clinical Trials in Community Care Settings
Learn how real-world data can increase access beyond traditional research sites.
Subscribe to the Weekly Briefing
Get strategic perspectives for C-suite leaders to help guide the health system forward.
How Health Plans Can Improve Encounter Data Quality
How to manage blockbuster anti-obesity drugs
The pricey weight management drugs work well, but users need coaching and support to maintain the benefits.
Study reveals costs for unrecognized kidney disease
Approaching health inequity with straightforward action
Read the CEO’s guide for assessing bias and building trust.
Physician group achieves record performance
Optum Ambulatory Services team leads system transition.
How our medication packaging helps the planet
New packaging saves CO2, water, energy, and plastic waste.
Promoting patient access to gene therapies for rare disorders
Optum Life Sciences experts discuss value-based contracts at the 5th Annual Gene Therapy for Rare Disorders Conference.
Meeting consumers on their terms
Learn how relationships between consumers and health organizations are transforming.
Executive Perspectives: Tech Innovation in Health Care
How AI and other technologies can help heal the health care system
Fusing data and analytics with human-centered design
Explore human-centered design. Expert panel at SXSW discusses merging data with design to build simple, connected health care experiences.
How holistic programs improve senior health
Medicare Advantage plans need to rise above the competition by going beyond traditional fitness offerings.
New diabetes medication recommender app
Our user-centric tool helps prescribers keep up with American Diabetes Association (ADA) medication recommendations.
Cost optimization strategies to restore financial health
Watch the webinar for insights on disruptive market forces, the health care economy, cost-management efforts and managing operating costs.
GLP-1 agonists: A new class of weight loss medications
In this conversation, discover how new weight loss drugs like Wegovy are changing obesity management and their connection to diabetes.
COVID-19 Contact Tracing Command Center Services
COVID-19 Contact Tracing Command Center Services
Case study 1: High-dollar claim savings
DRG outlier identified, resulting in $200,578 savings.
New hope for neurological conditions
Learn how a holistic model enhances multiple sclerosis care.
4 ways small and emerging biopharma can harness RWD now
Small and emerging biopharma companies are already having an impact on the industry. Learn how RWD can enhance your ability to innovate.
Moving to lower-cost electronic payments
Partner with Optum Financial to increase ACH payments
Supporting the unique needs of firefighters
When the Minnesota Fire Service needed emotional well-being support for their firefighters, Optum stepped in to help.
Choosing a strategic accounts receivable service partner
Selecting the right recovery partner requires careful evaluation.
Who are the patients in your market?
Get a complimentary custom market assessment to identify high-value patients and vulnerable populations to build meaningful engagements.
Building new possibilities for infusion care
How we are exceeding the evolving needs of the home parenteral nutrition market
Biosimilars explained: 5 questions you’ve been asking
Get prepared for more biosimilars to come to market.
New Client onboarding in Florida
Download this step-by-step guide for client onboarding.
What if pragmatic trials were more practical?
Pragmatic trials look increasingly attractive to researchers, but they’re tough to execute. Learn how to simplify the process.
8 things to look for in a virtual care offering
8 things to look for in a virtual care offering
Platform strategy for digital transformation
Read more about the digital transformation journey and how to approach these challenges by working toward a product driven model.
Watch: OLS Data Leaders at STAT Summit
Break down common missteps when using RWD and create practical strategies to overcome them.
The Curious Case of the Costly Complication
Optum helps a client prove product effectiveness
SDOH and Medicare Advantage
This paper examines the critical impact of social determinants of health (SDOH) on patient care and how in-home assessments can help.
Success stories in connected care
See how health organizations are creating new ways to deliver care.
Partnering for employee growth and retention
Explore how Boulder Community Health partnered with Optum to continue elevating its most critical component of success — its workforce.
How to control drug costs without compromising care
Explore three principles driving better pharmacy benefit decisions.
Vaccine Outreach - Implementing Community Engagement (VOICE)
VOICE addresses vaccine hesitancy in at-risk and vulnerable populations.
ACDIS CDI Survey and Report
Internal collaboration and clinically intelligent AI are key.
2024 Stars Preview: A Return to Normal and a Path Forward
Perform key actions to manage your Stars performance with a focus on member engagement. Learn how to take control of your Star ratings now.
Supporting people when they need it most
Learn how Optum helped a member find support after a loss.
Health Plan Leaders on StepWise Migration to the Cloud
Guiding Members To Treatment & Support
Helping Members Struggling With Substance Use Disorder.
A System-Wide Look at Improving Specialty Care
Condition-specific clinical expertise and capabilities necessary for managing complex diseases
Dynamic Assessment Of Pregnancies And Infants
We help answer questions about maternal and infant health.
Spotlight: Fitness needs across generations
Strategic Growth for Health Systems
This webinar covers topics surrounding disruptive market forces, workforce strategy, competitors growing within the industry and finance.
The Doctor Will See You…Anywhere
A profound shift toward coordinated, responsive care is underway in American medicine.
Excela Health & Optum partner for employee retention
In this video, learn how Excela Health and Optum are investing in mission-critical initiatives while also avoiding job eliminations.
Modernizing the Medicaid experience
Read our 9 key takeaways for states to modernize the provider management experience.
Center for Behavioral Health and Resilience
Our goal is to promote equitable delivery of behavioral health services and support individual and community resilience.
Applying health equity through action and evidence
Optum VP of Health Equity Analytics, Dr. Ali Shirvani-Mahdavi, discusses developing a data-driven strategy for equitable health outcomes.
How Excela Health Is Tackling Costs
See how Excela Health saw an area of opportunity in their revenue cycle and partnered with Optum for immediate impact and long-term value.
7 Strategies for Meeting More Mental Health Needs
Discover how to create an interconnected network of services that help people get properly diagnosed, access support and sustain progress.
Case study: Improving SGLT2i therapy guideline adherence
Article that covers OLS and Boehringer Ingelheim collaboration to increase adherence for patients with diabetes and CVD.
Optum Provider Services Master Agreement
Optum delivers provider management through NASPO ValuePoint.
NASPO ValuePoint Helps States Streamline MMIS Procurements
Streamline MMIS procurements through cooperative purchasing.
5 Provider strategies to help improve your margins
In this e-book, discover how health care organizations are prioritizing a path to improved financial sustainability and margins.
5 Provider Strategies to Help Improve Your Margins: Download
C-suite Check-In: The Health Care Workforce Crisis
Research report uncovers impacts, obstacles and priorities.
Retaining talent through employee integration
Explore a strategic alignment to transition employees within the expectations and goals of Market Performance Partnerships.
Mental health support for youth and caregivers
Youth are struggling more than ever before with their mental health and well-being. We can help.
Emerging technologies in underwriting
Listen to the on-demand webinar from Becker Healthcare in partnership with Bill Dimmock, VP of Advisory Services at Optum.
Enabling Success for the Health Plan Ecosystem
Optum has a complete portfolio of assets designed to enable health plans to make meaningful strides toward achieving their goals.
Are Your Employees Checked Out or Mentally Present? | Optum
The key is to invest in wellbeing programmes that meet employees where they are — solutions for everyday life.
Strategies to reduce administrative costs
Strategies to fix payer-provider collaboration, streamline patient financial experience and apply AI technologies for better cost savings.
A better path to managing specialty
Learn the actions you can take today to better manage spend and trend while finding the right care for those who need it most
Walk in their shoes
Learn how real cancer patient and provider experiences drive care navigation decisions.
Executive series: Health Care Workforce Crisis
Get strategy, insight and resources to create an enterprise-wide health care workforce strategy.
Optum Health Care Interoperability & Patient Access Services
Our solution is fully developed and ready right now to help your state meet compliance.
Smartsourcing healthcare: A perspective excerpt
Optum offers a complimentary excerpt of Smartsourcing Healthcare for practical insights on how to accelerate growth and financial performance.
Reducing administrative variation with artificial intelligence
Infuse technology into your medical necessity process.
Disruption and Risk in Health Care
Dr. Wyatt Decker discusses how innovation can be the upside of disruption and the importance of value-based care in changing the status quo.
5 ways to improve employee well-being engagement
Discover 5 critical factors to ensure employees take advantage of your well-being offerings and engage with your wellness programs.
Helping members achieve their goals
See how the right mental health care makes a difference.
Read a report about claims payments opportunities.
Thinking about going paperless for claims payments? We commissioned a study of senior health plan executives to hear what’s on their minds.
Sleep treatment across the ages
Combining real-world data and primary research helps us better understand insomnia.
NEJM Catalyst Q&A: Tech’s role for health care’s workforce
CMO Dr. Garry Choy discusses pros and cons of using automation and clinical decision support to meet today's workforce challenges.
Healthier Outcomes for Moms and Babies Through Data
By reaching out to women earlier in pregnancy, one state is supporting moms and babies and creating healthier outcomes for both with help from Optum.
Five Things to Know About Every Health Care Consumer
Engage with consumers in meaningful ways as COVID-19 evolves.
Tackle workforce crisis with human innovation
Explore human-focused innovations for solving health care workforce challenges while reaping benefits for all.
How to make the most of your fitness benefits
Delivering the Personal Touch
Empowering clients with more choice and transparency
Helping make prescription drugs more affordable for plan sponsors and the members we serve is a universal focus.
Challenges in health and wellbeing programmes in APAC
Employers in the APAC region said effective health and wellbeing (H&W) programme promotion and motivating employees to participate are among their current challenges. Find out what else we learned when Optum surveyed 347 global employers.
Impacting SDOH for patients and communities
CNO Kristy Duffey discusses the benefits of home-based care, opportunities in value-based care and how digital tools can overcome barriers.
Star ratings are important to Medicare plans
Improving the quality of care and general health status for members.
Monitoring COVID-19 vaccine safety
Discover insights from Dr. John Seeger’s recent participation at the Duke-Margolis Thirteenth Annual Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop.
Optum Quit For Life
Discover the difference of an evidence-based program that offers a truly personalized approach and blends technology with a human touch.
Telephone Lifestyle Coaching for Veterans
Optum Serve can help Veterans achieve health and wellness goals using TLC. Promote well-being, prevent illness and reduce the burden of chronic conditions.
Optum Dynamic Assessment of Pregnancies and Infants
Assess the impact of medication use during pregnancy and the impact on infant health.
Transforming the six zones of consumer experience
Discover innovations and success factors to drive engagement, loyalty and growth.
Case study 2: High-dollar claim savings
DRG outlier identified, resulting in $600,000 savings.
Managing the rise of people with multiple chronic conditions
Predicting who will develop multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) and intervening early is critical to better care and lower costs
Optum HouseCalls: In-home Multi-Dimensional Clinical Evaluation
In-home clinical evaluation of health and ongoing care needs
Missing pieces in the patient journey puzzle
Clinicogenomic data, unstructured data and novel clinical trials solutions can all contribute to completing the view of the patient journey.
Gratitude for Heroism
Optum Serve is proud to recognize female Service Members and Veterans.
Collaborative strategies to optimize complex care management
As caring for complex patients gets more complicated, payers and providers must partner to provide better, more accessible, lower-cost care.
The unifying power of integrated data
Read how the integration of EHR and claims data can change what we can collectively learn about outcomes.
Developing a successful network strategy
Grow business and generate revenue with network planning.
Solutions to the maternal care crisis are coming into focus
Solutions to the maternal care crisis are coming into focus
Addressing pharmacy issues that matter to you
From specialty pharmacy to drug affordability, our experts tackle your biggest pharmacy challenges.
Improved Arkansas Medicaid Outcomes
Helping Arkansas improve Medicaid outcomes, reduce costs.
Real Talk on Real-World Evidence: Practical Applications in 2021
Virtual fireside chat with Advisory Board and Optum Life Sciences leaders explores the expanded use and next wave of RWE applications
When a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Becomes a Health Plan
This white paper addresses the challenges of launching a provider-owned ISNP.
Improve claims processing with these claims management tips
Five Insights to Manage Hospital Administrative Costs
In this Optum article, futurist Tom Koulopolous and John Muir Health's Chris Pass share five strategies to manage administrative costs and improve performance.
Novel data collection for a difficult-to-study condition
To build a more complete picture of the patient burden, the Optum HEOR team investigates patients’ experiences with their treatment journey.
Accelerating a future where health care is closer to home
This new era goes beyond the walls of a clinic thanks to advances in digital health tools and approaches.
Achieving revenue integrity in a changing and complex climate
A Q&A about revenue integrity trends, challenges and effective strategies for improvement.
Untangle the causes of medical necessity denials.
Review factors hidden by your denial rate.
Self-Direction for State & Local I/DD Programs
This content is presented by Optum and the Spark Initiative.
Data’s powerful influence on hospital growth
A digital health transformation is shaping data trends and shifting the way organizations seek and use information.
Improve Medicaid risk adjustment accuracy
Explore Medicaid best practices for health plans, and learn three actions to take and when to take them.
Caring for clinicians: From burnout to wellness
CEO of Optum Care Solutions Dr. Patrick Conway explores how to move beyond burnout and focus on clinician wellness.
The 11 things life sciences leaders need to know
We identified 11 trends worth watching.
Alternative funding: Real savings or problems?
See how much "free" drugs will actually cost you.
Improving UR effectiveness with Case Advisor
Improving UR effectiveness with Case Advisor
Drugs to Watch in summer 2023: New therapies
New drugs for postpartum depression, dermatitis and blindness are coming.
How to Engage Hard-to-Reach Kidney Disease Patients | Optum
Intelligent automation is improving member outcomes
Optum Advisory's Loren Koerber and Matt Matousek break down intelligent automation and reducing the administrative burden in health care.
Increasing Value Through Higher Volume
Improve revenue integrity by expanding admission reviews.
Applying robotic process automation (RPA) for compliance
See how RPA helped saved 9,465 hours and $950,000 over five years in our client use case example.
New Data Dimensions In Life Sciences Research
Expanded research methods can address cost at the root level.
Electronic Health Records(EHR) Implement and Operate
Maximize your EHR investment through partnership.
Is poor market visibility compromising your growth?
How to understand your true growth potential.
Health savings pathways part 1
The connection between money and health runs deeper than just costs — your employees rely on your benefits strategy for overall wellness.
How to implement patient-centered oncology care
RWD Pitfalls Part 1: Using the right tools to approach RWD
When working with real-world data, learn from the lessons of others to help maximize your own business return.
Health plan solutions designed to lower the cost of care
Tour our ecosystem of capabilities designed to tackle broad-based health plan challenges.
Exciting advances for sickle cell, chronic obesity, Alzheimer’s
See potential cures for sickle cell and new help for chronic obesity and Alzheimer’s, along with how they work and how much they cost.
Health leaders share IT transformation stories
Hear John Muir Health and Bassett Health’s observations on digital transformation, modernizing infrastructure and strategic automation.
Military & Veteran Health Care Journey: Infographic
Delivering and managing health care at key phases of life for Military Service Members and Veterans.
2022 Agent Insights report
The 2022 Agent Insights report highlights consumer trends plus 10 key insights to help you grow and succeed.
Bring your wellness strategy to life for employees
Discover how partnering with a health promotion specialist can help you unlock creative ways to engage your employees with wellness programs and initiatives.
The impact of corrective actions on Stars ratings
Learn more about the impact and implications of a Corrective Action Plan and how Stars and these corrective actions are interconnected.
How Health Data Can Improve MSK Care for Members | Optum
Informing the FDA BEST Initiative
As a key FDA collaborator, Optum Epidemiology generates reproducible results that inform regulatory decisions for COVID-19 vaccines.
True interoperability adds value
Act on trends, enhance care coordination and much more.
State of Healthcare Technology
Explore disruptive technologies transforming the industry.
Health Care's Guide to Machine Learning
What you need to know about AI's latest buzzword.
Develop a best-in-class front-end revenue cycle
Learn six ways to take your operations from good to great.
The brave new world of digital transformation
Leaders preparing for life in the post-pandemic world are searching for ways to succeed with digital.
The Optum care model in your community
Deliver specialized health care benefits to your residents
Orphan drugs market: Can we afford them?
We examine key questions around orphan drugs such as why they're so expensive, how they're being used and what plan sponsors should do next.
Supporting Veteran truckers
Learn how Optum Serve supports Veterans through a whole-health approach to work and life.
Delivering Value-Based Care for Veterans Affairs & DOD | Optum
Best practices to help transition to value-based care.
Improving clinical documentation improvement (CDI) efficiency
See how Lima Memorial improved efficiency with advanced technology.
Technology Helps Reduce Barriers to Tobacco Cessation
Learn about the growing change in tobacco cessation.
Faster access to mental health care
Give employees guaranteed access to mental health care with the Premium Network model from Emotional Wellbeing Solutions.
Using predictive data to achieve 70:1 ROI
Watch the webinar to learn how MetroHealth used precision marketing to reach patients that are likely to need specialty services.
Payer-provider collaboration in ESRD care
Kidney disease is complex and expensive, and disproportionately impacts people with limited financial resources. Here’s how payers can help transform care.
Key learnings for modernizing your state’s legacy system
As you embark on maintenance and operations (M&O) modernization, consider how these 8 best practices can drive your success.
Understanding the health care needs of Veterans
Ethnographic research conducted to help address Veterans' needs across the health care system.
Youth mental health research findings
In our new report, you'll learn key findings about the mental health needs of young people and their caregivers, and discover opportunities for intervention.
Optum Specialty Pharmacy & Optum Infusion Pharmacy Appeals
When patients are denied access to medications and treatments they need, the Optum Specialty Pharmacy and Optum Infusion Pharmacy Appeals Team is here to help
Cambia's evolution with StepWise
Cambia replaced their legacy health insurance premium quoting system for their small and midsize employer group business. The total health solutions company was determined to find a vendor that met their business vision.
What to consider about weight loss drugs
Get the most from these pricey new obesity drugs by choosing the right coverage strategy and helping your members build lifelong habits.
Weighty issue: How to contain GLP-1 costs
Get strategies for handling the new anti-obesity medications.
Making better decisions in a crowded benefits landscape
Assessing vendors is daunting enough. But for many employers, limited data, contract variations and employee confusion add complexity.
Emerging technologies in underwriting
Listen to the on-demand webinar from Becker Healthcare in partnership with Bill Dimmock, VP of Advisory Services at Optum.
Are You Maximizing the ROI of Your Real-World Data?
Help your organization capitalize on these vital resources using lessons and tools compiled by the Optum life sciences real-world data team.
Optimize member engagement through collaboration with Optum
A health plan increased in-home assessment rates for their Medicare Advantage members by working with Optum to increase member engagement.
Emerging technologies in underwriting
Listen to the on-demand webinar from Becker Healthcare in partnership with Bill Dimmock, VP of Advisory Services at Optum.
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