UnitedHealth’s Optum division is working on Medicare risk scoring system that would use AI, a company executive director said Thursday at a conference.

https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/16/unitedhealth-optum-developing-new-ai-risk-scoring-system-for-medicare-advantage-cmmi/ via @STAT

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UnitedHealth’s Optum working on Medicare risk scoring system that would use AI

UnitedHealth’s Optum working on Medicare risk scoring system that would use artificial intelligence.

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This is what I got this morning when I tried to log into my (previous) #healthInsurance company's website (which uses #Optum's "Healthsafe ID" for authentication) after 9am to submit a claim from last month (before we switched to new insurance).
It's of course a 🤡-show that Optum can't keep a mission-critical website up during business hours, and a double 🤡-show when they've got a bogus "test" email address displayed in the error message.
Par for the course for Optum, eh?
#changeHealthcare
SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Feb 16th, 2025

Feed your Head Vol II No 42 189 links Curated What if time is not as fixed as we thought? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/02/2502...

To anybody in the rest of the world wondering why Americans won't commit to a general strike, this is pretty much why.

The status quo wasn't good to begin with and fighting our way back to that doesn't stop this kind of flagrant abuse and exploitation.

#USPolitics #USHealthcare #Optum

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Minnesota-based UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to critical autism treatment • Minnesota Reformer

Optum is “pursuing market-specific action plans” to limit children’s access to the treatment

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oh a new years day morning note from my current health care (#UnitedHealthCare owned #Optum branded #AtriusHealth, the former #HarvardVanguard) provider, requiring me to log in to their health care portal.

Will it be
A nice note about the new year and making healthy choices?

A thank you for continuing to use their services after 20 years?

A gentle nudge to pay a bill?

No:

"We wish to inform you about an important change regarding parking at our Somerville practice.
Effective January 1, 2025, parking garage fees on weekdays only will be reinstated at the following rates"

#SomervilleMA #DavisSquare

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What good is #UnitedHealthcare #Optum mail order pharmacy when they fill your order when you run out but it takes a week to 10 days to get your scripts? They won't let you fill your order enough time in advance to get it before you run out and they calculate the next refill date for when they get confirmation you got your order.

I get so mad that I could, well, just keep the level of anger to myself. This was supposed to be easier, esp with me living in a rural area and all the mom and pop pharmacies being priced out of the market and closing.

A lot of my meds can't be stopped and started cold turkey.

#gallowshumor: Their customer support is about as useful as a dead man on a sidewalk. #gallowshumour

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Preface: today, I was told that WITH insurance, 7 doses (titrating on) of my new anti-depressant, #Trintellix , would cost me $60. For 7 god-damned pills.

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You know how certain stores have “store brands” since e.g. _Threshold_ sounds like a way cooler brand than “Target-brand cheap fitted bedsheets”?

Well hey, turns out, #UnitedHealthcare did that too! Fooled me; I am [an unhappy] United Health Care customer, and I thought that Optum was a separate company.

BURN IT ALL DOWN.

   

This guy gets it:

(Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DCCgmmQCQL2/ )

#humor #pharmacy #Optum #OptumRX

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16K likes, 239 comments - docglauc on November 6, 2024: "Jimothy learns about Pharmacy Benefit Managers!".

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I've seen some bad opt-out screens, but this one from Optum has got to be the worst. I guess you just report them as spam instead then. 🤷‍♂️

#darkpatterns #spam #optout #optum