How Optum supported one practice in its transition to value-based care

Dr. James Corcoran's family-medicine practice in Phoenix, Arizona needed support transitioning to value-based care, which typically requires operational and financial changes. Optum provided data integration and operational assistance and assumed financial risk on providers' behalf, letting Corcoran focus more on patients. He reports being able to "spend time with patients" and "see less patients in a day and still make a decent income," which he links to "better patient satisfaction" and potentially "better disease outcome," summarizing: "Optum Care is paying us better to spend time with patients, I can see less patients in a day and still make a decent income." No quantitative metrics are given.

Optum is UnitedHealth Group's data and analytics arm, with one of the largest raw claims and EHR-derived real-world-data footprints of any vendor in this directory.

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