Fierce Healthcare February 27, 2024
Paige Minemyer

LOS ANGELES — Optum Health CEO Amar Desai took the stage at ViVE on Monday morning to discuss the company’s value-based care ambitions and strategy, but there was a clear elephant in the room: the cyberattack on Change Healthcare that’s still causing disruption nationwide.

Desai, M.D., said that the Optum team has been in regular communication with its clients’ technology and cybersecurity leaders as it navigates a response to the lingering challenge. He emphasized that the issue is confined to Change’s systems, and that Optum broadly, UnitedHealthcare and UnitedHealth Group were spared.

“We don’t have much more to share than what has been shared publicly, but we continue to work the problem,” he said. “We have external partners also engaged...

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Topics: Conferences / Podcast, Cybersecurity, Health IT, Payment Models, Provider, Technology, Trends, Value Based
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