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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.

Article

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.

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.

Articles

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.

Latest articles

Article

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.

Article

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.

Latest case studies and testimonials

Case study

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.

Case study

Case study: Investing in employees' success

Tailored financial wellbeing support eases employee stress and boosts productivity for global telecommunications company.

Latest e-books

E-book

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.

E-book

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.

Latest guides

White paper

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.

Guide

Understanding students' mental health needs

Read about the realities of campus behavioral healthcare and how we can make things better for college students.

Latest on-demand webinars

On-demand webinar

Supporting youth mental health

Dr. Yusra Benhalim shares insights on the challenges we must overcome to reach youth.

On-demand webinar

Slowing progression chronic kidney disease

Explore insights from this collaborative study to identify predictors of late-stage kidney disease and assist in early intervention.

Latest podcasts

Latest white papers

White paper

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.

White paper

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.

Latest videos

Video

Behavioral healthcare made better

We help people find care and support that’s easy to understand and access.

Video

Helping members achieve goals

See how the right mental healthcare makes a difference.

 All data and analytics insights

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.

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.

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.

Taking aim 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Supporting providers in the transition to VBC

Learn how value-based care (VBC) partnerships between payers and providers are more important than ever.

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.

Hub benefits strategy employers

A fresh approach to benefits is easing leaders’ administrative burden and connecting employees to better care.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Unraveling complexity specialty care

Learn how Optum is streamlining care delivery with insights from patients and providers to improve outcomes and drive down costs.

Slowing specialty pharmacy carve out stampede

Discover specialty medication management strategies to help you slow carve-out and stop member attrition.

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.

Connected Care

See the whole picture for whole-person health.

Support state medicaid goals members

Find out how a person-centered approach can help.

Behavioral healthcare made better

We help people find care and support that’s easy to understand and access.

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.

Helping members achieve goals

See how the right mental healthcare makes a difference.

Support your workforce emotional wellbeing solutions

Help employees feel mentally, physically and financially well with Emotional Wellbeing Solutions.

Emotional wellbeing solutions workforce

Invest in your organization’s most valuable asset — the people — with solutions for everyday life.

Are employees checked out mentally present

The key is to invest in well-being programs that meet employees where they are — solutions for everyday life.

Supporting employees wellbeing after loss

Learn how Optum helped a member find support after a loss.

Working together help end opioid epidemic

Opioids are powerful drugs with a high risk of misuse and dependence. A comprehensive solution can help address this complex problem.

Guided help mental health support

We’re making it easier for people to access 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.

Supporting unique needs firefighters

When the Minnesota Fire Service needed emotional well-being support for their firefighters, Optum stepped in to help.

Behavioral health family support program

Youth are struggling more than ever before with their mental health and well-being. We can help.

Supporting providers in the transition to VBC

Learn how value-based care (VBC) partnerships between payers and providers are more important than ever.

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.

Support for substance use disorders

Expand access to evidence-based support to help individuals achieve stabilization and sustain recovery.

Supporting youth mental health

Dr. Yusra Benhalim shares insights on the challenges we must overcome to reach youth.

Data insights improve patient outcomes lower costs

Kidney disease care: A comprehensive approach

Find out how an integrated approach produces better outcomes for renal disease — a common, complex and costly condition.

Why quality fitness benefits crucial for employers

Whether you offer exercise classes, fitness equipment or nutritious snacks, investing in your employees’ movement and health will always be smart.

Slowing progression chronic kidney disease

Explore insights from this collaborative study to identify predictors of late-stage kidney disease and assist in early intervention.

How achieve more inclusive msk care

Musculoskeletal conditions are costly, common and fraught with health inequities. Here’s how a more holistic approach can help.

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 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.

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 support

Help your workforce take charge of their health, so they can be more resilient and present every day.

Improve womens health 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.

Wellbeing in the workplace study

Global employers share insights on their efforts to adapt wellbeing strategies to meet their greatest workplace challenges.

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.

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 win all women

With unique needs, women benefit greatly from a wider array of care options. Payers and employers can reap big rewards by providing them.

Cancer costs rising are you ready

As experts forecast a steep climb in already-expensive oncology costs, payers must prepare for the big changes ahead.

Senior brain health social interaction

Medicare Advantage plans can differentiate supplementary programs by addressing cognitive health and social interaction.

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 to fertility care.

Payer provider collaboration esrd care

Kidney disease is complex, and disproportionately impacts people with limited financial resources. Here’s how payers can help transform care.

Top wellbeing challenges employers today

The Optum 2023 Wellbeing in the Workplace benchmark study reveals current health and wellbeing trends across 405 global companies.

Combating the opioid epidemic

Medication interventions save lives — more people need access to them.

Value-based care in behavioral health

Learn strategies to equip mental health clinicians for success in making the transition to value-based care.

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.

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.

Mitigating maternal care deserts

For some mothers-to-be, healthcare options are disturbingly limited — or even nonexistent.

Elevating employee engagement

Data-driven, targeted strategies help successfully increase employee use of mental health, financial and legal services.

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.

When healthcare works better 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.

Fitness needs across generations

Fitness needs vary across generations. Here’s how to make sure your offerings are serving each age bracket.

Emotional wellbeing solutions for health care workers

Support healthcare workers, who put others first every day.

How 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.

Health equity womens 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.

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