UnitedHealth's 2020 revenue jumped by $15 billion from the year before. As the payer gears up for 2021, leaders except to see demand for telehealth and online pharmacies continue, driving their focus on these services.
OptumHealth acquired naviHealth, a startup developing a software platform to help manage post-acute care. Cardinal Health sold a majority stake in the company two years ago.
When it comes to managing inbound phone calls, underperformance has devastating cost implications.
The present fee-for-service payment model that dominates healthcare doesn't begin to meet what needs to be done to properly treat people with open wounds and diabetes. That was the primary complaint heard at an experts panel that the life sciences trade group LifeScience Alley held in downtown Minneapolis on Wednesday.
What weak economy? UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE: UNH) Tuesday boosted its annual profit forecast, thanks to a strong revenue growth across all of its businesses in the second quarter. The Minnetonka, Minnesota-based company, the nation’s largest private health insurer, said it now expects to earn $3.40 to $3.60 a share on revenue of $93 billion […]
In the not-too-distant-future, Dr. Jim Woodburn says, patients can reach their doctors on the phone. If that doesn’t sound too impressive, consider this: The doctor can literally see the patient, access medical histories, listen to heartbeats and check the eyes, ears, nose and throat — all from the other side of the country. “Telemedicine is […]
Delta Airlines’ core business is to physically transport passengers from one location to another. But when it comes to doctor visits, Delta employees can stay right where they are. UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE: UNH) said Thursday that Delta will become the first company in the United States to use its OptumHealth NowClinic program. The service, […]
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Telemedicine — practicing medicine through the electronic exchange of medical information — promises to improve patient access to the best care. It also could head off costly hospital admissions for patients who have chronic illnesses by getting them medical help sooner. But cut down on day-to-day healthcare costs? Well, maybe a little, according to representatives […]
Can UnitedHealth Group Inc. become the health care industry’s version of Amazon.com? Well, not for a while, if at all. But the nation’s largest private payer, based in Minnetonka, is already laying the technological groundwork for a system that can quickly collect and analyze patient data from multiple sources, spot trends, and even predict consumer […]
Golden Valley-based OptumHealth in September 2008 stopped letting patients go to UW Hospital for kidney transplants, the hospital's largest transplant program, saying the program's success rate was too low. The company was paying for 16 percent of transplants at the hospital, second only to the federal health plan Medicare.