Becker's Healthcare August 14, 2023
Riz Hatton

UnitedHealth Group’s Optum and its subsidiaries have recently laid off employees and cut services at one of its subsidiary’s clinics.

Here are three things ASC leaders should know:

1. No UnitedHealth companies have filed WARN documents with state regulators this month. However, several former employees from Optum subsidiaries have posted on social media that they have been laid off.

2. Optum subsidiary MedExpress Urgent Care is cutting nursing positions at nearly 150 locations “in an effort to revamp its staffing model,” according to an Aug. 11 article from ABC affiliate WTAE.

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