https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/30/change-healthcare-cyberattack-doctors-tap-personal-savings-for-costs.html

Will they continue with the UE model of care?

Will someone please post how I can report all the bullying and micromanaging going on ?

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24626988-uhgs-witty-house-testimony

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/cybersecurity/unitedhealth-ceo-hackers-used-stolen-credentials-to-access-change-systems.html?origin=CIOE&utm_source=CIOE&utm_medium=email&utm_content=newsletter&oly_enc_id=6188A0242256G0A Per CEO own admission -... — read more 

Has anyone heard if more layoffs will be coming this Thursday?

I heard they are looking at the RVPs. They have slowly RIF’d these positions in the past year. It’s a “gaggle of hens” who have no idea what their team does. Only a few are good and need saving but these upper middle management have zero solutioning... — read more 

The Workplace Psychological Safety Act (Bullying) Testimony for the Workplace Psychological Safety Act (7-minute version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xULk5VI4BY The Workplace Psychological Safety Act is moving forward in Rhode Island, which... — read more 

What's the point of layoffs if you're getting rid of your best people?

Optum has become way too top-heavy, reduce the amount of leadership you have. They spend their days in meetings and moving apps around on their desktops. When one of their reports comes to them with a problem, they don't have the answer because they... — read more 

https://www.beckersasc.com/anesthesia/anesthesiologist-sues-optum-affiliated-oregon-asc-for-alleged-retaliation-firing.html

What about care advocate case managers that call the members. Are we safe?

I work on the UHC HEDIS team; we are just wrapping up the chart chase for the year. I have heard from a former co-worker that NCQA is saying that the HEDIS hybrid will be eliminated by 2030. UHC leadership has not addressed this with us at all. Has... — read more 

Word is these positions being targeted, level 29s and 30s with direct reports. Executives are tasked with identifying teams performing well and eliminating that position, hoping the team will continue to perform well without that role, and the Assoc... — read more 

Is this true? heard it from grapevine at H.O. or just speculation?

Post the mass layoff that are yet to come this company has to meet certain criteria regulatory etc. Their surveys are mandatory and the best thing everyone can do is stop helping them pass the survey. If they have zero participation than entities... — read more 

I work as a business analyst for the HouseCalls Business Operations team. We work very closely with the APCs who perform in-home visits/patient assessments, including labs and screenings. We've been told "we're safe" but I'm not feeling it... — read more 

Hearing senior community care has more coming in July. This time clinical, Sam’s, Sims and other back office staff will be consolidated and many will be gone. Oh the joys of working at Optum. Hope to get out before you should to

Should care coordinators at Optum be worried about the layoffs?

Can anyone tell me at what week severance pay is calculated? Is it the last few weeks of “employment” after a lay off? Or after the official final day of work?

There is talk of merging markets in Landmark. Our market is planning to merge with our neighboring market and I’m wondering if they plan to get rid of the CHAs altogether or just condense them? They say they need us for collaboration with hospitals... — read more 

Have there been any layoffs?

Optum layoffs: naviHealth CEO out; Virtual care business shuttered

For those of you recently laid off, are you having any luck finding new roles? Internal or external? If internal, are you landing at same, higher, or lower GLs?

Just looking at benefits with impending doom of layoffs..I'll be with optum 2 years in June, and I'm reading you're 100% vested with UHG match at 2 years. Does anyone know if that's to the day, like let's say you started June 15, would it be June... — read more 

#CHAxed

https://www.thelayoff.com/change-healthcare In light of the ransomware attack, Change Healthcare finds itself marginalized by Optum/UHG, its reputation tarnished as if afflicted by a plague. The urgency to revive the Change Healthcare layoffs... — read more 

Curious how the layoffs have affected Optum's I-SNP and IE-SNP team. Have heard many layoffs here as well, and enrollment freezes in certain states. I'm a health care journalist.

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/optum-undergoes-mass-layoffs-scale-unclear

sad news, lot of people let go from change. Products getting shutdown and no way to restore. It will continue to happen entire 2024!

The Landmark model is slowly ending. If they are laying off doctors, then you know your role ain't important enough not to get cut. Stop expecting to hear something they don't care about YOU. They are in billions of debt and getting sued by families... — read more 

So many Optum folks are #OpenToWork. It's scary to see, to be honest.

https://www.beckerspayer.com/payer/highest-paid-payer-ceos-in-2023.html?origin=BHRE&utm_source=BHRE&utm_medium=email&utm_content=newsletter&oly_enc_id=6188A0242256G0A Highest Paid CEO= Biggest Cyber Scr$w= Biggest RIFs (without WARN act)=Biggesr... — read more 

How can we get the DOJ to 100x move the company into breaking up and stop monopolizing the medical industry……this is ridiculous…I’m ashamed to have my work experience and name tagged along with this he-ll hole of a company.

So curiously, UHG says the Change breach has cost it $847M dollars. And yet, magically, this will not impact the overall profit of UHG. More strangely, a (probably oversharing) C-level, in a divisional meeting, directly blamed various merit increase... — read more 

You don’t hear about any talk of layoffs I asked my manager with things that were changing? anything going on? Should we be concerned? no response. So much for transparency. Obvious people are gone emails have no out of office replies wondering what... — read more 

https://www.modernhealthcare.com/insurance/change-healthcare-update-cyberattack-cost-unitedhealth When profit is up by 14%+ and $376B revenue, $22M is such a small price to pay for cyber actors. Furthermore, all the massive RIFs secure all the execs... — read more 

Check this article out: https://www.modernhealthcare.com/insurance/optum-layoffs-navihealth-unitedhealth-group-uhg