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Optum serves employers, government agencies, health plans, life science companies, care providers and individuals and families offering products in data and analytics, pharmacy care services, health care operations and delivery, population health management and advisory services. [7]
Catamaran Corporation (formerly SXC Health Solutions) is the former name of a company that now operates within UnitedHealth Group's OptumRX division (since July 2015). It sells pharmacy benefit management and medical record keeping services to businesses in the United States [3] and to a broad client portfolio, including health plans and employers. [4]
Also in 2003, UnitedHealth Group acquired Golden Rule Financial, a provider of health savings accounts. [15] 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.
Healthcare providers from across the sector were also in attendance and voiced their concerns about the ongoing financial and operational impacts of the Change cyberattack. [60] [61] As of April 16, 2024, UnitedHealth Group had advanced payments of over $6 billion in assistance to health care providers affected by the cybersecurity attack. [62]
2007: Hired Ed Noffsinger, [18] the "Father of Shared Medical Appointments" to launch a program of Shared Medical Appointments (SMAs [19]) as a way for patients to have better access to their physicians and other providers and to learn from other patients during a 90-minute group visit [20]
Healthgrades evaluates hospitals solely on risk-adjusted mortality and in-hospital complications. [17] Its website evaluates roughly 500 million claims from federal and private reviews and data to rate and rank doctors based on complication rates at the hospitals where they practice, experience, and patient satisfaction. [8]
They are one of the largest home health providers and second largest hospice care provider in the United States. Amedisys provides in-home skilled nursing , physical therapy , occupational therapy and speech language pathology , medical social work , home aides, and hospice and bereavement services, with 11 million patient care visits in 2011.
Even for those that did manage to enroll, insurance providers later reported some instances of applications submitted through the site with required information missing. [30] In Bloomberg Businessweek journalist Paul Ford summed up the issue by remarking, "Regardless of your opinions on the health-care law, this is the wrong way to make ...