Optum is the health care services business of UnitedHealth, the nation's largest health insurer Optum photoThe conditional government approval of UnitedHealth Group’s acquisition of DaVita Medical Group will still bring the health insurer’s Optum health services business key medical provider assets in fast-growing markets. The Federal Trade Commission, worried about a monopoly in the Las Vegas area, worked out a settlement with UnitedHealth to divest DaVita Medical’s medical care provider group known as HealthCare Partners of Nevada. Once the deal closes, Davita Medical Group will meld into the OptumCare division of Optum, which works with more than 80 health plans and 16 million patients. A half dozen markets in particular in some of the fastest growing population centers in the U.S. will see OptumCare fill gaps it has had in its medical care provider portfolio, analysts and Optum executives say. “DaVita Medical Group’s high-quality practices in California, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico and Washington are now part of OptumCare,” Optum said in announcing FTC approval of the $4.3 billion acquisition.

Source: Forbes June 20, 2019 19:31 UTC