Optum Workers’ Compensation

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The Optum workers’ compensation and auto no-fault division works to collaborate with our clients to deliver value beyond transactional savings while helping ensure injured parties receive safe and effective clinical care throughout the life of their claim. Our innovative and comprehensive cost management programs include pharmacy care services, ancillary benefit management, medical services, and settlement solutions.

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A Fresh Perspective: How the New CEO Is Finding Growth Opportunities in Tech, Talent and More

Matt Wolfe joined the Optum Workers’ Comp and Auto No-Fault team in July and already sees the groundwork laid for a great path ahead.

A Fresh Perspective: How the New CEO Is Finding Growth Opportunities in Tech, Talent and More

Matt Wolfe joined the Optum Workers’ Comp and Auto No-Fault team in July and already sees the groundwork laid for a great path ahead.
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How Optum’s Topicals Toolbox Gives Workers’ Comp Professionals Key Resources and Data to Avoid Rising Costs

Topicals can be a costly specialty medication in workers’ compensation. When a topical is necessary, it’s important payers have a resource that works with them to reduce their overall cost.

How Optum’s Topicals Toolbox Gives Workers’ Comp Professionals Key Resources and Data to Avoid Rising Costs

Topicals can be a costly specialty medication in workers’ compensation. But when a topical is deemed medically necessary, it’s important payers have a resource that works with them to reduce their overall cost.
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Are Pharmacy Benefit Managers Worth It? How Partnering with One Improves Patient Outcomes and Reduces Costs for Payers

As the media focuses on PBM pricing transparency, it’s important to consider all the benefits PBMs bring to the table.

Are Pharmacy Benefits Managers Worth It? How Partnering with One Improves Patient Outcomes and Reduces Costs for Payers

As the media focuses on PBM pricing transparency, it’s important to consider all the benefits PBMs bring to the table.

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How PBM Pharmacy Cost Savings Programs Can Help Auto Insurers Attract Policyholders

Cost savings programs can help insurers cut premium costs and attract clients in the notoriously difficult auto insurance line.

How PBM Pharmacy Cost Savings Programs Can Help Auto Insurers Attract Policyholders

Cost savings programs can help insurers cut premium costs and attract clients in the notoriously difficult auto insurance line.
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The Auto Payers’ Checklist for Selecting a Pharmacy and Ancillary Program to Manage Claims

While auto and workers’ comp insurers see many of the same kinds of claims, handling auto claims takes a specialized knowledge base to reach the best outcomes for payers and patients.

The Auto Payers’ Checklist for Selecting a Pharmacy and Ancillary Program to Manage Claims

While auto and workers’ comp insurers see many of the same kinds of claims, handling auto claims takes a specialized knowledge base to reach the best outcomes for payers and patients.
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Treating an Injured Person and Not a Claim: Why Injured-Person Centered Care Is Essential for Driving Better Outcomes in Workers’ Comp

Injured-person, centered care can lead to better recovery outcomes while saving claims costs.

Treating an Injured Person and Not a Claim: Why Injured-Person Centered Care Is Essential for Driving Better Outcomes in Workers’ Comp

Injured-person, centered care can lead to better recovery outcomes while saving claims costs.

Why Businesses Should Use a Single Vendor for Their PBM and Settlement Solutions Programs

Using a single vendor for both PBM and settlement solutions services has major advantages for workers’ compensation programs.

4 Ways Early Physical Therapy Helps Injured Workers Recover Faster

The Optum physical medicine platform is geared up to work in tandem with pharmacy benefit management to help injured workers control and overcome pain and get back to their lives.

This PBM Shows How a Central Platform Keeps Service Streamlined Amid Consolidation

Frequent mergers create a confusing experience for workers’ comp carriers and claimants. By rolling all of its services into a single platform, Optum is proving the IT investment can pay off.

5 Advanced Ways Clinical Expertise Can Improve Workers’ Comp Outcomes

Caring for injured workers should involve more than just processing transactions. Applying a clinical approach from the onset of an injury ensures more appropriate care and better outcomes.

Answers to Your Most Common Questions About Predictive Analytics in Workers’ Comp

Predictive models improve clinical outcomes and reduce costs for payers, but only if you know how to use them.

Sharpening the Tools

Improving outcomes by using value-based purchasing, effective chronic pain management, and employing the talent that will help define success for insurers and their customers.

Connecting the Dots

Telemedicine, electronic medical record-keeping and the ongoing technology shift that will shape the future of medical management in workers’ compensation.

It’s all in the Code: Five Essential Characteristics of HCPCS that Influence Outcomes

Keep in mind these five critical elements of HCPCS that can impact payers and claimants alike.

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