- Optum’s online marketplace, which aims to provide affordable healthcare products and services, is offering same-day virtual appointments for patients with COVID-19, allergies, acute pain, skin problems, sinus and ear infections, colds and other conditions. Virtual visits are a flat rate of $55 and lasts up to 20 minutes.
- Optum joined a $75 million series B funding round for artificial intelligence diagnostic company Digital Diagnostics.
- Optum Washington signed a deal with the Seattle Mariners to become the team’s exclusive primary care partner. Under the partnership, Optum and the Mariners will develop video features honoring recipients of the Hometown All-Star recognition, an award given to physicians, clinicians, front-line workers and volunteers.
- Optum will provide the analytics and decision support tools for some Walmart Health centers in Florida and Georgia as part of a new partnership between the retail giant and UnitedHealth Group. The digital tools will boost Walmart Health’s value-based care efforts, especially for Medicare beneficiaries.
- On Oct. 3, Optum completed its $7.8 billion merger with Change Healthcare. The completed acquisition, which merges Optum with healthcare data and analytics giant Change Healthcare, allows Optum access to data from millions of healthcare transactions covering a broad swath of the U.S. population.
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