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Learn how value-based care (VBC) partnerships between payers and providers are more important than ever.
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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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Perform key actions to manage your Stars performance with a focus on member engagement. Learn how to take control of your Star ratings now.
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Learn how value-based care (VBC) partnerships between payers and providers are more important than ever.
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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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As a highly specialized area of care, fertility treatment is a significant cost driver for health plans and employers.
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Tailored financial wellbeing support eases employee stress and boosts productivity for global telecommunications company.
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Data-driven, targeted strategies help successfully increase employee use of mental health, financial and legal services.
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Discover the 5 pillars of equity-driven member navigation.
E-book
Create meaningful change for the women in your workforce. Learn steps to help close the gap in health equity, improve health and lower costs.
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Perform key actions to manage your Stars performance with a focus on member engagement. Learn how to take control of your Star ratings now.
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Read about the realities of campus behavioral healthcare and how we can make things better for college students.
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Mental health specialists serve a critical role in reducing total cost of care for plan sponsors.
Latest on-demand webinars
On-demand webinar
Explore insights from this collaborative study to identify predictors of late-stage kidney disease and assist in early intervention.
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Perform key actions to manage your Stars performance with a focus on member engagement. Learn how to take control of your Star ratings now.
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Explore the challenges and opportunities in using mental health data to understand prevalence, risk, impact and treatment in patients, members and communities.
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Learn how OB Homecare and advanced analytics can help manage at-risk pregnancies.
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Help your workforce take charge of their health, so they can be more resilient and present every day.
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Slowing specialty pharmacy carve out stampede
Discover specialty medication management strategies to help you slow carve-out and stop member attrition.
Tackling youth mental health crisis
A board-certified adult, child and adolescent, and addiction psychiatrist discusses how to connect children and families to needed behavioral health solutions.
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.
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.
Addressing high cost musculoskeletal care deferral
With musculoskeletal (MSK) incidence rates and costs rising, connecting members with the care they need is more urgent than ever.
Support for substance use disorders
Expand access to evidence-based support to help individuals achieve stabilization and sustain recovery.
Address health equity barriers in cancer care
Discover the 5 pillars of equity-driven member navigation.
Partner strategies optimize complex care management
As caring for complex patients gets more complicated, payers and providers must partner to provide better, more accessible, lower-cost care.
Cost breakthroughs in complex care management
Not every complex care management program is built equally. Here's how to optimize them for maximum benefits.
Understanding students' mental health needs
Read about the realities of campus behavioral healthcare and how we can make things better for college students.
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.
Care Pathways study
Mental health specialists serve a critical role in reducing total cost of care for plan sponsors.
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.
Emotional wellbeing support
Help your workforce take charge of their health, so they can be more resilient and present every day.
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 payers can evaluate Centers of Excellence
Not all Centers of Excellence are created equal. Here are five questions that payers should keep in mind.
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.
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.
Mental health lessons from COVID-19
COVID-19 has negatively affected many people's mental health, but will anything good come out of it?
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 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 women's health with community-based solutions
Research shows that community-based care is an effective way to lessen the negative effects of social factors that can heavily influence health outcomes.
Slowing progression chronic kidney disease
Explore insights from this collaborative study to identify predictors of late-stage kidney disease and assist in early intervention.
Health equity and women's health
Create meaningful change for the women in your workforce. Learn steps to help close the gap in health equity, improve health and lower costs.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Supporting providers in the transition to VBC
Learn how value-based care (VBC) partnerships between payers and providers are more important than ever.
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.
Kidney disease care: A comprehensive approach
Find out how an integrated approach produces better outcomes for renal disease — a common, complex and costly condition.
Senior brain health and social interaction
Medicare Advantage plans can differentiate supplementary programs by addressing cognitive health and social interaction.
Health equity in kidney disease management
Learn 5 strategies for health plans to address inequities in the kidney care landscape and create more equitable access, treatment and outcomes for all.
Behavioral healthcare made better
We help people find care and support that’s easy to understand and access.
Top employer wellbeing challenges
The Optum 2023 Wellbeing in the Workplace benchmark study reveals current health and wellbeing trends across 405 global companies.
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.
Combating the opioid epidemic
Medication interventions save lives — more people need access to them.
Reimagine your employee assistance program
Help employees feel mentally, physically and financially well with Emotional Wellbeing Solutions.
Emotional Wellbeing Solutions
Invest in your organization’s most valuable asset — the people — with solutions for everyday life.
Taking aim at the U.S. maternal mental health crisis
As digital fitness, physical therapy and virtual musculoskeletal care surge in popularity, they’re yielding benefits for health plans and members alike.
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.
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.
Are employees checked out mentally present
Keys to investing in wellbeing programs that meet employees where they are and offering solutions for everyday life.
Payers address family building inequities
Read how payers can turn the tide on 5 worrisome statistics.
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.
Addressing social determinants of health
Create solutions to eliminate barriers to care and support members.
Case study: Investing in employees' success
Tailored financial wellbeing support eases employee stress and boosts productivity for global telecommunications company.
Preemptive kidney transplants
Avoiding dialysis in favor of organ transplant can yield better patient outcomes and lower healthcare costs. So why is it still uncommon?
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.
Supporting employee wellbeing after a loss
Learn how Optum helped a member find support after a loss.
A guide to reimagining complex care delivery
Care delivery in the U.S. is evolving as payers look to improve consumer experiences and accessibility, but this shift will take time.
Mitigating maternal care deserts
For some mothers-to-be, healthcare options are disturbingly limited — or even nonexistent.
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.
Elevating employee engagement
Data-driven, targeted strategies help successfully increase employee use of mental health, financial and legal services.
When healthcare works better for everyone
See how building an outcomes-based model for behavioral healthcare can benefit both clinicians and patients.
Women's health: Susan's story
Learn how OB Homecare and advanced analytics can help manage at-risk pregnancies.
Supporting the unique needs of firefighters
When the Minnesota Fire Service needed emotional well-being support for their firefighters, Optum stepped in to help.
Supporting providers in the transition to VBC
Learn how value-based care (VBC) partnerships between payers and providers are more important than ever.
Fitness needs across generations
Fitness needs vary across generations. Here’s how to make sure your offerings are serving each age bracket.
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.
Emotional wellbeing solutions for health care workers
Support healthcare workers, who put others first every day.
The role of navigation to simplify healthcare
An active approach to advocacy can help improve member experiences while driving down costs. Read our e-book to learn how.
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.
Hub benefits strategy employers
A fresh approach to benefits is easing leaders’ administrative burden and connecting employees to better care.
Access to mental health care within 48 hours
Optum expands care options while reducing crisis events and costs.
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.
How are global employers driving employee engagement in health and wellness programmes?
Optum surveyed 347 global employers to better understand current health and wellbeing (H&W) practices. Employers told us how they’re motivating employees to engage in their own wellbeing.
Packaging your employee benefits experience
Part 3 of our health savings pathways series explores best practices to help employees understand and use their benefits.
Wellness Coaching helps motivate employees
Wellness Coaching provides your global employee population with support and encouragement in the form of nonjudgmental coaching.
Asia pacific culture of health
By engaging region-specific expertise, your company can strategically improve the well-being of its employees.
Drive wellbeing programme utilisation
Strengthen your international wellbeing programme with an integrated health promotion specialist.
Diagnosis and care recommendations for rare congenital anomaly
Rigorous work-up leads to conservative CHD (congenital heart disease) treatment approach.
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.
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.
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.
Holistic msk improves care
Our holistic approach can help payers better fight against rising musculoskeletal care costs while better serving members.
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.
Benefit communication strategy use case: Engage employees with personalization
Learn how personalized employee communications can help meet benefit strategy objectives
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.
Hub and advocacy solutions work together
Navigating a complex healthcare environment is challenging. Using hub and advocacy solutions together helps employers and employees alike.
Revolutionizing specialty medication management
Get an in-depth assessment of the ways Specialty Fusion™ is revolutionizing specialty drug management.
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.
Payer-provider collaboration in ESRD care
Kidney disease is complex and disproportionately impacts people with limited financial resources. Here’s how payers can help transform care.
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.
Wellbeing in the Workplace study
Global employers share insights on their efforts to adapt wellbeing strategies to meet their greatest workplace challenges.
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.