Health care provider Optum has backed away from its plan to purchase Steward Health Care’s national physicians group, dealing a major setback to Steward’s efforts to bolster its finances after filing ...

In recent days, Raymond James upgraded UnitedHealth Group to Outperform, highlighting the company’s push into artificial intelligence and potential margin improvement within its Optum Health division ...

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Optum spent the last decade investing in significant growth, adding thousands of physicians to its network and purchasing ASC company Surgical Care Affiliates in 2017. Now the company is focusing more ...

A move by Optum to change longstanding practices for licensing data to academic institutions has sparked an outcry among researchers, who argue the move will make accessing data so costly and ...

Optum announced it's launching a laboratory benefit management solution designed to help health plans reduce unnecessary lab testing and ensure their members receive appropriate, high-quality tests.

Optum has reported total revenues of $226.6 billion for the fiscal year 2023, a 24% increase compared to the previous year, according to UnitedHealth Group’s fourth quarter earnings report released ...

LAS VEGAS—Optum Rx is planning to add up to three biosimilar drugs to its formulary to compete directly with AbbVie's Humira, which accounts for massive pharmacy spend each year. Optum Rx, the ...

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Optum will contribute more than half of Unitedhealth Group's profits in 2020, the company disclosed at its Dec. 3, 2019 investor day. The rapid growth of UnitedHealth Group’s Optum health care ...