Optum closing primary care offices in South Jersey as part of statewide cutbacks

Optum Care is closing its four primary care offices in South Jersey. The shutdowns are to take effect Dec. 1 at Optum sites in Cherry Hill, Medford, Mount Ephraim and Runnemede.
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Who is Optum Health? Everything you need to know the company bidding on Steward Health Care

BROCKTON — In March, Steward Health Care, the for-profit corporation that owns Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton and Morton Hospital in Taunton, announced that it had plans to sell their ...
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UnitedHealth discontinues a controversial brand amid scrutiny of algorithmic care denials

UnitedHealth Group and Optum are getting rid of the name of their tech-driven care management company just months after the company faced congressional criticism over the use of its algorithms to cut ...
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After Optum Health’s lowest profit margin in a decade, UnitedHealth makes changes

Just weeks after the division of UnitedHealth Group that provides care to patients posted its lowest profit margin in a decade, the company has shuffled around several top executives. Amar Desai is ...