Trends and perspectives for health plans
Together, we are driving change toward the same things for our health care system — better quality, lower cost and higher consumer and provider satisfaction.
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Hi. I’m John Hoffman, VP in the Optum Payer market business. I’m here to talk to you about our approach to building new and innovative capabilities through integrated Optum solutions and external partnerships that ultimately reduce the total cost of care and improve provider and member experience for our health plan customers.
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With a laser focus on speed to value, we are working to both harness the power of assets
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across once disparate business units,
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coupled with external partnerships with world-class companies to combine solutions at scale in joint market offerings, to drive meaningful impact for health plans. All of our health plan partners are facing similar challenges around improving the provider and member experience,
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affordability and emerging spend trends,
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constant regulatory changes,
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continually evolving digital technologies,
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and many more challenges that require nimble, innovative partners that can deliver solutions rapidly. In response, Optum has evolved beyond individual point solutions into holistic, comprehensive offerings. As we continue to evolve
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and stand up new capabilities, we are taking a very deliverable approach to investing in new internal offerings that are built from scratch and/or executing external partnerships with well-established market leaders. These integrated solutions that come from our wide and broad portfolio of Optum businesses, coupled with capabilities from leading external companies, has allowed us to deliver market offerings
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that can tackle some of the most complex problems in healthcare today, with the scale and resources to achieve significant impact quickly. Some recent examples that are currently resonating across the market include integrated solutions in areas such as labs and genomics, specialty pharmacy, durable medical equipment, behavioral health, and emergency department diversion. In time, you will see others across additional medical spend trends and disease specific categories, payer provider collaboration and transparency, and provider enablement. These broad offerings will also pivot away from traditional license fee
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and shared savings type models
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to full outcomes-based
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or risk-based partnerships where in some cases, our customers offload risk
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for certain membership or spend categories to Optum. These comprehensive solutions
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combined with risk-based partnerships,
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will allow Optum to completely take on our customers’ broad challenges that simply cannot be solved for by typical point solution vendor offerings. Our health plan thought leadership page is designed to give you information about
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what is top of mind for healthcare leaders across the market and what Optum is doing to address these challenges head on. If you are interested in any specific topic,
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please don’t hesitate to contact us. Thank you for your time today.
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