Forbes December 4, 2019
UnitedHealth Group’s fast-growing Optum healthcare services unit is rolling out what it hopes will be a “city-by-city” effort to make medical care more seamless to patients.
Andrew Witty, the President of UnitedHealth Group and CEO of Optum said Wednesday evening at the 2019 Forbes Healthcare Summit that the hundreds of clinics, surgery centers and urgent care assets the company has acquired will increasingly be “wired together” in markets across the U.S. The company has identified 10 markets where that process is underway.
While UnitedHealth continues to be the nation’s largest health insurance company, selling commercial, Medicaid and Medicare Advantage plans, its finding growth on the medical care provider side of the healthcare system. Optum owns one of the nation’s largest...