Becker's Healthcare January 18, 2023
The largest employer of physicians in the United States is not HCA, the VA, or Kaiser Permanente — it’s UnitedHealth Group’s Optum.
With at least 60,000 employed or aligned physicians across 2,000 locations in 2023, Optum has cemented itself at the forefront of the quickly changing healthcare delivery landscape. For comparison, Bloomberg reported in 2021 that Ascension employs or is affiliated with 49,000 physicians, HCA has 47,000 and Kaiser has 24,000.
“The reason it’s been so hard to make healthcare and the healthcare system work better in the United States is because it’s rare to have patients, providers — especially doctors — payers, and data, all brought together under an organization,” Optum Health CEO Wyatt Decker told the publication. “That’s...
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