Optum — UnitedHealth Group’s division that controls one of the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers — is moving to improve access and pricing for prescription drugs by cutting some ...

Optum notable drugs nearing FDA approval include Anaphylm, Sotyktu, and insulin icodec with decisions expected early 2026.

UnitedHealth's scale and Optum diversification give it an edge over Molina as health insurers face policy-driven volatility and rising cost pressures.

The home health bidding wars are heating up as UnitedHealth Group's Optum unit is making a big play for home health and hospice firm Amedisys. Just one month ago, Amedisys agreed to be bought by ...

U.S. private equity firm TPG is close to acquiring UnitedHealth's Optum UK business, in a deal worth between 1.2 billion ...

Health care provider Optum has backed away from its plan to purchase Steward Health Care’s national physicians group, dealing a major setback to Steward’s efforts to bolster its finances after filing ...

A move by Optum to change longstanding practices for licensing data to academic institutions has sparked an outcry among researchers, who argue the move will make accessing data so costly and ...

UnitedHealth Group’s Optum health services business Monday made an unsolicited cash offer of more than $3 billion to the board of home health provider Amedisys. The “all-cash offer,” valued at nearly ...

Optum and Change Healthcare have agreed to combine, uniting two of the nation's largest technology and service companies. The agreement is expected to close in the second half of 2021, with Optum ...