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NICU-related claims are becoming more costly. For payers, a comprehensive benefit management strategy, including focused claims review, is crucial.
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As claims grow more complex, many automation methods aren't sophisticated enough for the job. See how payers can take claims review to the next level.
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Assessing vendors is daunting enough. But for many employers, limited data, contract variations and employee confusion add complexity.
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An evolution in cancer prevention and treatment promises to forge a new path for patients, physicians and health plans alike.
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See 4 ways that payers can help healthcare providers unlock the power of real-world data to drive quality and innovation in cancer care.
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Overcome today's barriers with leadership, collaboration and investment strategies that proactively address mental and behavioral health.
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Here’s how payers can harness the power of data to bring more effective — and timely — musculoskeletal (MSK) care to their members.
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Mental health specialists serve a critical role in reducing total cost of care for plan sponsors.
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Navigating a complex healthcare environment is challenging. Using hub and advocacy solutions together helps employers and employees alike.
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Help employees feel mentally, physically and financially well with Emotional Wellbeing Solutions.
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Learn how OB Homecare and advanced analytics can help manage at-risk pregnancies.
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Fitness needs vary across generations. Here’s how to make sure your offerings are serving each age bracket.
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Support healthcare workers, who put others first every day.
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Medication interventions save lives — more people need access to them.
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Recognizing the unique perspectives of neurodivergent individuals and creating an inclusive workplace can enrich and empower your teams.
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Use best practices to build a gift-wrapped benefits experience that engages your people and optimizes your employees’ well-being.
Results from the 8th annual Wellbeing in the Workplace study from Optum highlight how over 400 global employers are winning at wellness.
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As experts forecast a steep climb in already-expensive oncology costs, payers must prepare for the big changes ahead.
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CAR T-cell therapies have been remarkably successful and may become more widely available. Here’s how to get ready for a rise in these expensive treatments.
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Rigorous work-up leads to conservative CHD (congenital heart disease) treatment approach.
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Learn how leveraging a microbiome approach helped one patient with von Willebrand disease and multiple antibiotic allergies.
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Digital MSK tools: 5 important features
Digital MSK can improve outcomes while reducing costs. Learn how payers and employers can choose a program that delivers on health benefits and savings.
Why workforce wellness programs must reward more than health tasks
To ensure that well-being benefits drive results, employers must let go of strategies built around one-and-done health tasks. Here’s how.
Access to mental health care within 48 hours
Optum expands care options while reducing crisis events and costs.
Support for substance use disorders
Expand access to evidence-based support to help individuals achieve stabilization and sustain recovery.
Closing the diagnosis gap in CKD
Most people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) don’t know they have the condition. These payer strategies can help turn the tide.
Building a better oncology managed care program
New cancer treatments can transform patients’ lives — but they also create costs that demand a new kind of cancer guidance program.
3 ways holistic MSK care improves all avenues of care
Our holistic approach can help payers better fight against rising musculoskeletal care costs while better serving members.
Personalized support for members with autism
Optum is breaking barriers in supporting members and families who are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Shift-of-site care is a win for women
With unique needs, women benefit greatly from a wider array of care options. Payers and employers can reap big rewards by providing them.
The cancer data divide: Why integration is the next frontier
These billion-dollar drugs are set to lose their exclusivity. But good things happen when generics and biosimilars are allowed to compete with costly brand-name drugs.
Reimagining behavioral health
Join speakers Lou Dierking and Miranda Anderson as they share insights into how technology can drive much-needed improvements in behavioral health care.
Whole-person cancer care: 4 strategies for employers and payers
Life after cancer is complex, and survivorship — living with and beyond diagnosis — demands long-term support for mental, physical and financial health.
How organizations can support neurodiversity in the workplace
Recognizing the unique perspectives of neurodivergent individuals and creating an inclusive workplace can enrich and empower your teams.
Supporting providers in the transition to VBC
Learn how value-based care (VBC) partnerships between payers and providers are more important than ever.
Drive improved outcomes and lower costs for blood cancers with CAR T therapy
This white paper analyzes CAR T utilization, outcomes and economic impact across commercial and Medicare populations in the Optum Cell and Gene Therapy (CGT) program from 2022–2024.
Cancer costs are rising — are you ready?
As experts forecast a steep climb in already-expensive oncology costs, payers must prepare for the big changes ahead.
How millennials and Gen Z are transforming workplace wellbeing
Millennials and Gen Z are reshaping workplace wellbeing into whole‑person, tech‑enabled support that boosts engagement, retention and value.
Helping a member find support
See how one mother found in-the-moment support during a family crisis.
Why quality fitness benefits are crucial for employers
Whether you offer exercise classes, fitness equipment or nutritious snacks, investing in your employees’ movement and health will always be smart.
Senior brain health and social interaction
Medicare Advantage plans can differentiate supplementary programs by addressing cognitive health and social interaction.
When chronic conditions and behavioral health collide
The collision of chronic conditions and behavioral health challenges can’t always be stopped, but healthcare leaders can work to mitigate its impact.
How health data can improve msk care
Here’s how payers can harness the power of data to bring more effective — and timely — musculoskeletal (MSK) care to their members.
Strategies for navigating growth in transplant, cell and gene therapies
As transplant, cell and gene therapies grow in complexity, payers need new approaches to manage cost, risk and support long-term sustainability.
Behavioral healthcare made better
We help people find care and support that’s easy to understand and access.
Guidance along fertility journey
Discover how health plans can set aside ad hoc solutions and adopt a comprehensive approach to improve health outcomes and accessibility of fertility care.
Asia pacific culture of health
By engaging region-specific expertise, your company can strategically improve the well-being of its employees.
Addressing the Root Causes of Mental Health Disparities
Discover steps and strategies to reduce disparities among vulnerable populations and remove barriers for more equitable mental health care.
Supporting members through life’s challenges
See how mental health support from Optum helped a member navigate grief.
Why behavioral health plays a critical role in the cancer journey
Understand how depression, anxiety, care access and treatment adherence drive higher utilization and costs for employers and payers when left unaddressed.
Optimize employee benefits with healthcare analytics
With the right tools, employers can transform employee benefits data into actionable insights that drive better experiences and add value.
What Gen Z wants in employer fitness benefits
The pricey weight management drugs work well, but users need coaching and support to maintain the benefits.
Analytics in payer-oncologist partnerships
See 4 ways that payers can help healthcare providers unlock the power of real-world data to drive quality and innovation in cancer care.
Combating the opioid epidemic
Medication interventions save lives — more people need access to them.
Mental health: Optum addresses the great information divide
Explore the challenges and opportunities in using mental health data to understand prevalence, risk, impact and treatment in patients, members and communities.
Fecal transplant to treat recurrent urinary tract infection
Learn how leveraging a microbiome approach helped one patient with von Willebrand disease and multiple antibiotic allergies.
How employers can make better benefits decisions
Assessing vendors is daunting enough. But for many employers, limited data, contract variations and employee confusion add complexity.
4 shifts shaping the future of oncology
An evolution in cancer prevention and treatment promises to forge a new path for patients, physicians and health plans alike.
Addressing social determinants of health
Create solutions to eliminate barriers to care and support members.
Health loyalty rewards programs
Learn how employers can tap best practices to ensure their health rewards and loyalty programs make a meaningful difference.
Case study: Investing in employees' success
Tailored financial wellbeing support eases employee stress and boosts productivity for global telecommunications company.
More inclusive MSK care: How can employers help?
Discover what employers can do to support all employees who may be coping with costly and common musculoskeletal conditions.
Leveraging GLP-1s for a whole-person approach
A holistic, strategic approach to GLP-1s combines medication, surgery and behavioral health to support weight management and reduce costs.
Supporting employee wellbeing after a loss
Learn how Optum helped a member find support after a loss.
Diagnosis and care recommendations for rare congenital anomaly
Rigorous work-up leads to conservative CHD (congenital heart disease) treatment approach.
Cost breakthroughs in complex care management
Not every complex care management program is built equally. Here's how to optimize them for maximum benefits.
Mitigating maternal care deserts
For some mothers-to-be, healthcare options are disturbingly limited — or even nonexistent.
Understanding college and graduate student mental health needs
Explore the realities of mental health among college students and graduates and how we can make it better.
Delivering on promise of fertility care
As a highly specialized area of care, fertility treatment is a significant cost driver for health plans and employers.
Working together to help end the opioid epidemic
Opioids are powerful drugs with a high risk of misuse and dependence. A comprehensive solution can help address this complex problem.
Workplace fitness benefits: What to know
Employers must adjust their fitness programs to meet employees' evolving fitness needs. Here’s how to bring your offerings into the new era.
How proactive fall prevention improves senior care
Explore how evidence-based screening, education and collaboration help reduce falls, injuries and hospitalizations among older adults.
Elevating employee engagement
Data-driven, targeted strategies help successfully increase employee use of mental health, financial and legal services.
Supporting women beyond the reproductive years
Learn how health plans can fill care gaps by offering greater support and personalized solutions for women experiencing menopause.
Forging a new frontier in mental and behavioral health
Overcome today's barriers with leadership, collaboration and investment strategies that proactively address mental and behavioral health.
5 things a claims review program does that you might not realize
Learn more about how an all-in, centralized claims review can contain costs while boosting consumer and provider experiences.
Care Pathways study
Mental health specialists serve a critical role in reducing total cost of care for plan sponsors.
Ways digital movement reshaping member experiences
As digital fitness, physical therapy and virtual musculoskeletal care surge in popularity, they’re yielding benefits for health plans and members alike.
Predictions from the 9th annual Optum Wellbeing in the Workplace Survey
New Optum survey of more than 450 employers signals a reset: Wellbeing strategies must close gaps in mental health, engagement and accessibility to drive impact.
Hub and advocacy solutions work together
Navigating a complex healthcare environment is challenging. Using hub and advocacy solutions together helps employers and employees alike.
Slowing specialty pharmacy carve out stampede
Discover specialty medication management strategies to help you slow carve-out and stop member attrition.
Youth-centered mental health
Find new ways to address youth mental health and how health care leaders and communities can come together to achieve long-lasting impact.
Addressing high-cost of musculoskeletal care deferral
With musculoskeletal (MSK) incidence rates and costs rising, connecting members with the care they need is more urgent than ever.
What makes a meaningful health advocacy program?
A great health advocacy program helps employees get the most out of their benefits while fostering strong health outcomes and savings.
When healthcare works better for everyone
See how building an outcomes-based model for behavioral healthcare can benefit both clinicians and patients.
How payers can prepare for the next wave of cellular therapy patients
CAR T-cell therapies have been remarkably successful and may become more widely available. Here’s how to get ready for a rise in these expensive treatments.
Women's health: Susan's story
Learn how OB Homecare and advanced analytics can help manage at-risk pregnancies.
Costs for unrecognized kidney disease
A new study published by The American Journal of Managed Care highlights health care costs associated with unrecognized progression to late-stage kidney disease.
What healthcare leaders really think about AI
For our 2-part series on the future of AI, we surveyed more than 100 healthcare leaders. Part 1 reveals how leaders are approaching AI investments. Part 2 looks at the leadership challenge that executives face.
The challenge of managing rising neonatal costs
NICU-related claims are becoming more costly. For payers, a comprehensive benefit management strategy, including focused claims review, is crucial.
Supporting the unique needs of firefighters
When the Minnesota Fire Service needed emotional well-being support for their firefighters, Optum stepped in to help.
The importance of workforce mental health maintenance
See how employee mental health benefits are evolving to support workforce wellbeing.
Behavioral health support for millennials at work
Millennials are leading the charge for mental wellness—and employers are stepping up.
2024 Stars preview: A path forward
Perform key actions to manage your Stars performance with a focus on member engagement. Learn how to take control of your Star ratings now.
Attracting Gen Z employees with smart benefits strategies
Gen Z is changing workplace expectations — employers must evolve benefits to keep up..
Fitness needs across generations
Fitness needs vary across generations. Here’s how to make sure your offerings are serving each age bracket.
Supporting family mental health
See how the Child and Family Behavioral Coaching program helped a family find support for their child’s ADHD.
Improve fertility treatment efficiencies and outcomes
Whether for personal or professional reasons, many couples today are delaying starting a family. However, waiting to conceive can lead to fertility issues — for one partner or both.
Increasing at-home dialysis for ESRD patients
See why home-dialysis patients tend to fare better than in-clinic patients, and how patient-centric kidney care management helps them make informed choices.
Bring wellness strategy to life
Discover how partnering with a health promotion specialist can help you unlock creative ways to engage your employees with wellness programs and initiatives.
How to build a mobile crisis team
Learn more about the current research on mobile crisis teams (MCTs), how to build an MCT as well as envision a future for them.
5 ways to help your employees reach their wellness goals
Learn how employers can bridge the wellness gap through workplace wellness programs that offer personalized, practical and human support.
5 ways to help improve access to personalized behavioral health care
Leading payers are implementing strategies that expand access, simplify navigation and connect members to the right behavioral health support at the right time.
What employers should know about a hub benefits strategy
A fresh approach to benefits is easing leaders’ administrative burden and connecting employees to better care.
Managing the high costs of complex conditions with Centers of Excellence
How to build a resilient benefits strategy that drives access and improves outcomes sustainably.
Youth mental health research findings
In our new report, you'll learn key findings about the mental health needs of young people and their caregivers, and discover opportunities for intervention.
How patient-first care helps women with cancer
A growing number of women are navigating cancer care. Targeted supports can make a difference in patient experience, outcomes and costs.
Safeguard the mental health of content moderators
Learn how we support the unique workplace needs of content moderators with a tailored wellbeing strategy.
Boost engagement with personalized benefits communication
Learn how personalized employee communications can help meet benefit strategy objectives
Why advance care planning matters in senior care
Advance care planning helps care teams understand patient goals, guide treatment decisions and support families before a crisis occurs.
How to manage organ transplant costs
There’s a lot at stake with organ transplant claims. Learn the importance of selecting an effective payment integrity approach.
Taking aim at the U.S. maternal mental health crisis
New and expectant mothers are facing an epidemic. Here’s what they need, not only to withstand pregnancy and early parenthood but to thrive.
Future ready claims review automation not enough
As claims grow more complex, many automation methods aren't sophisticated enough for the job. See how payers can take claims review to the next level.
Human-centered design in healthcare
This Optum white paper shows how human-centered design builds technology and programs that are easy and intuitive for consumers to use.
Antiracism and inclusion
Optum saw the value in a project for a community cohort, Leadership for Racial Equity, and quickly worked to create a national strategy.
Drive wellbeing programme utilisation
Strengthen your international wellbeing programme with an integrated health promotion specialist.
7 strategies for meeting more mental health needs
Discover how to create an interconnected network of services that help people get properly diagnosed, access support and sustain progress.
How to achieve more inclusive MSK care
Musculoskeletal conditions are costly, common and fraught with health inequities. Here’s how a more holistic approach can help.
Managed Transplant Program: Clinical outcomes and cost impact
New research examines how structured, nurse‑led case management influences cost, utilization and outcomes for members undergoing complex organ transplants.
Site-of-care: A longitudinal review
Gain insights into the site-of-care landscape, what market data reveals and how outmigration could affect your hospital.
2023 3rd Annual C-suite Research Report
How are market dynamics impacting decision-making across healthcare? Research report examines progress, challenges and priorities in 2023.
Emotional wellbeing solutions for health care workers
Support healthcare workers, who put others first every day.
Packaging your employee benefits experience
Use best practices to build a gift-wrapped benefits experience that engages your people and optimizes your employees’ well-being.
Behavioral health support helps improve ROI
With work-life balance becoming a priority, offering no-cost outpatient therapy is more than a benefit — it’s a commitment to wellbeing.
The role of navigation to simplify health care
An active approach to advocacy can help improve member experiences while driving down costs. Read our e-book to learn how.
How to make most of your fitness benefits
Get a step-by-step guide for employers to maximize ROI, design the best offering and keep their workforce engaged in essential offerings.
Improve well-being engagement and usage
Learn 5 critical factors that can help you successfully engage employees in your wellness strategy.
Emotional wellbeing support
Help your workforce take charge of their health, so they can be more resilient and present every day.
Second Opinion plus COEs can help address avoidable MSK surgeries
Musculoskeletal surgeries are driving up costs. Payers can bend the curve with digital care, expert second opinions and high-performing surgical centers.
4 ways behavioral support helps make GLP-1s cost effective
As GLP-1 use surges, payers and employers need to include behavioral support, deprescription planning and long-term care to sustain outcomes.
Fitness for a generation that never gets old
With baby boomers rapidly aging into Medicare, health plans must take an informed approach when marketing fitness benefits. Here’s how.
How to implement patient-centered oncology care
Patient-focused care is becoming the highest aspiration in cancer care. Here’s what payers should know to embrace this beneficial approach.
Kidney care breakthroughs: What payers should know
Explore the most promising innovations in renal care for people with chronic kidney disease.
How holistic programs improve senior health
Medicare Advantage plans need to rise above the competition by going beyond traditional fitness offerings.
How to ease the emotional toll of caregiving for members
Learn how plan sponsors can support caregivers and their loved ones' mental health with resources and tools.
Revolutionizing specialty medication management
Get an in-depth assessment of the ways Specialty Fusion™ is revolutionizing specialty drug management.
Healthy pregnancy through personalized maternal health support
Discover how virtual health care helped one employee achieve a healthy pregnancy and feel supported from preconception to postpartum.
How Second Opinions help deliver first-rate outcomes
Virtual second opinions give members a checkpoint before major treatment decisions. Labor and trust funds get better outcomes and smarter spend.
Why falling smoking rates don’t tell the whole story
Cigarette use is declining, but nicotine and cannabis remain common among workers — creating new risks and opportunities for labor and trust funds.
Why stronger clinical handoffs matter in post-acute care
In this webinar, Optum Home and Community and Advisory Board examine how improving the clinical handoff can improve post-acute care outcomes.
Optum HouseCalls visits can improve outcomes: Delores’s story
Optum HouseCalls offers in-home or virtual clinician visits at no extra cost. Watch Nurse Practitioner Dyan guide Delores’s care journey.
Women’s health is more than reproductive care
Discover 5 areas of focus for payers and employers looking to improve women’s health outcomes, costs and member satisfaction.
How payers can improve maternal care in the 4th trimester
Learn how payers can drive meaningful impact through preconception care, postpartum coaching and managing chronic conditions early.
Menopause in the workplace: Promoting awareness and support
How employers and payers can step up with tailored benefits, workplace accommodations, and integrated care.
Clinician Real Talk Podcast
Join host Adia Morris for inspiring chats with clinicians on care, culture and how Optum supports their journey every step of the way.
Reimagine your employee assistance program
Help employees feel mentally, physically and financially well with Emotional Wellbeing Solutions.
Are employees checked out mentally present
Keys to investing in wellbeing programs that meet employees where they are and offering solutions for everyday life.