Press Releases
05/16/2013
Eden Prairie, Minn., and Burlington, Mass. – May 16, 2013 – Optum today launched a new portfolio of technology-enabled business process outsourcing services to help health care payers transform their core administrative operations, reduce costs and adapt to market changes. Optum will combine its own business process outsourcing and payment integrity capabilities, along with the HealthRules® integrated financial, administrative and clinical technology from HealthEdge, to deploy these services.
05/01/2013
BOSTON and DALLAS – May 1, 2013 – Baylor Quality Alliance (BQA), a wholly-controlled affiliate of Baylor Health Care System, has selected Humedica MinedShare® from Optum to improve quality of patient care and reduce costs for the patients and communities served as it works to become a clinically integrated accountable care organization.
01/15/2013
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., and ROCHESTER, Minn., Jan. 15, 2013 — Optum and Mayo Clinic today jointly launched Optum Labs, an open, collaborative research and development facility with a singular goal: improving patient care. Based in Cambridge, Mass., Optum Labs provides an environment where the health care industry can come together to combine information and ideas that benefit patients today while also driving long-term improvements in the delivery and quality of care.
12/10/2012
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Dec. 10, 2012 – Optum, an industry leader in health care payment integrity services, is working with SAS to further enhance its comprehensive health care anti-fraud, waste and abuse services. This enhanced solution combines detection, investigation, prevention, case development and recovery services to provide commercial health plans with a flexible approach to ensuring proper payments to care providers.
11/12/2012
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Nov. 12, 2012 – Optum, a leading health services company, has released its Smart Measurement® System for Late Phase, a software product that helps pharmaceutical companies manage large, complex and multiyear drug studies more efficiently and cost-effectively.
09/27/2012
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Sept. 27, 2012 – Optum has launched Optum ICD-10 Core Education, a comprehensive training program to help hospitals ensure physicians, coders and other staff who are affected by the new coding standard are fully prepared before the October 2014 deadline.
09/20/2012
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Sept. 20, 2012 — A new Optum Institute/Harris Interactive national survey published today provides new insights into U.S. consumers’ willingness to go online to view their medical records and engage with care providers.
While 70 percent of physicians surveyed have basic Electronic Medical Record (EMR) capabilities, only 40 percent of physicians say they have the capability to engage with patients via email or provide patients with access to their health records.
07/30/2012
DES MOINES, Iowa – An aggressive program integrity initiative for Iowa Medicaid saved taxpayers nearly $30 million in cost avoidance or recoveries in its second year of operation, far exceeding expectations.
07/17/2012
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., July, 17, 2012 – The State of Illinois will expand its use of advanced technology to manage Medicaid and human services functions to reduce costs, improve outcomes and help implement structural changes for the program that provides health benefits to 2.7 million low-income Illinois residents.
07/10/2012
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., July 10, 2012 – Optum launched its newest generation of coding technology. Optum Enterprise CAC, a computer-assisted coding (CAC) platform, helps hospitals accelerate their transition to ICD-10, increase productivity and simplify coding and documentation processes.
05/02/2012
OptumInsight and one of its key government clients, the State of Michigan, have collaborated to implement a data analysis and reporting tool to promote significant savings. The tool enables county Department of Human Services agencies to make critical decisions about programs and budgets based on specific local and regional needs.
03/20/2012
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., and MINNEAPOLIS (March 20, 2012) – WESTMED Medical Group announced it is collaborating with the UnitedHealthcare and Optum businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) to launch an accountable care organization (ACO) for its more than 220 physicians in Westchester County, N.Y.
02/27/2012
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Feb. 27, 2012 — Picis, a part of OptumInsight, has been awarded ISO 13485 and ISO 9001 certifications by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the largest developer and publisher of international standards.
02/16/2012
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Feb. 16, 2012— A new survey commissioned by the Optum Institute for Sustainable Health (the Optum Institute) published today provides the most up-to-date national snapshot of U.S. hospitals’ information systems adoption, and their strategies and concerns about the future.
02/14/2012
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., February 14, 2012 – Optum today launched Optum Care Suite, a set of applications that will help physicians and other health professionals access detailed health intelligence on patient, system and population health, and collaborate to make medical care decisions and improve health outcomes.