Becker's Healthcare February 7, 2024
Optum, the country’s largest employer of physicians and parent company of ASC chain SCA Health, is focusing on a different type of growth: hiring employees instead of building facilities.
The company has seen soaring growth in the last year, adding nearly 20,000 physicians in 2023 and inking deals with physician groups, hospitals and even Uber.
Optum is not focusing on ownership of inpatient facilities. Instead, it is looking to health system partnerships that outsource administrative functions to Optum. These deals add affiliated employees to Optum’s ranks while it manages macro-level functions such as revenue cycle management, information technology, informatics, analytics and inpatient care management. The company has inked at least nine health system partnerships as of 2024.
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