Moira Forbes onstage with Sir Andrew Witty at Forbes Healthcare Summit 2019. FORBES/VICTORIA ENGBLOMUnitedHealth Group’s fast-growing Optum healthcare services unit is rolling out what it hopes will be a “city-by-city” effort to make medical care more seamless to patients. Optum owns one of the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers in OptumRx as well as an array of medical care provider businesses, including doctor practices, surgery centers and urgent care sites across the country. Witty said Optum will be able to provide physicians “advice” so they have better access to innovation. “We can smooth out the time it takes for the patient to get the care they need” from primary care doctors and the specialists they are referring to, Witty told attendees at the Forbes Healthcare Summit.

Source: Forbes December 04, 2019 22:46 UTC