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On July 21, 2003, Exante Bank started operating in Salt Lake City, Utah, as a Utah state-chartered industrial loan corporation. It changed its name to OptumHealth Bank in 2008 [16] and to Optum Bank in 2012. In April 2004, UnitedHealth Group acquired Touchpoint Health Plan, a Wisconsin health plan. [17]
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Optum was formed as a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group in 2011 by merging UnitedHealth Group’s existing pharmacy and care delivery services into the single Optum brand, comprising three main businesses: OptumHealth, OptumInsight and OptumRx. [2] In 2017, Optum accounted for 44 percent of UnitedHealth Group's profits. [3]
On December 4, 2024, Brian Robert Thompson [4] [5] (born July 10, 1974), the CEO of the US health insurance company UnitedHealthcare, was shot in the back and killed in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
Dhivya Suryadevara is an Indian-American executive and the CEO of Optum Financial, part of UnitedHealth Group. She is the former chief financial officer of Stripe , an American e-commerce payments company and the former executive vice president and chief financial officer of General Motors .
In July 2018, Witty became CEO of Optum, a division of UnitedHealth Group. [22] In November 2019, he was named president of UnitedHealth, in addition to his role as CEO of Optum. [23] From April 2020 to December 2020, Witty took a leave of absence from Optum to assist the World Health Organization in developing a vaccine for COVID-19.
Burke founded UnitedHealth Group and played a significant role in the development of the HMO and Physicians Health Plan (PHP) while he worked at InterStudy, a think tank focused on health care with Dr. Paul M. Ellwood Jr. [2] [3] [4] Burke took the view that healthcare should be economized and hospital admissions should be limited, sometimes at the protest of doctors.
Change Healthcare was established in 2007 and based in Brentwood, Tennessee. [5] The company provided healthcare consumer engagement [clarification needed] and health plan cost transparency tools to health plans and large, self-insured employers [6] across the United States.