Optum's AI chatbot was found exposed online at a time when the healthcare giant faces scrutiny for its use of AI to allegedly deny patient claims.

Healthcare giant Optum has restricted access to an internal AI chatbot used by employees after a security researcher found it was publicly accessible online, and anyone could access it using only ...

The pharmacy benefit manager has removed reauthorization requirements for more than 140 drugs so far this year amid what ...

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Optum and Availity will collaborate to help improve the completeness and accuracy of health insurance claims, and reduce claims-processing errors and ...

Optum is threatening to withhold claims payments until struggling practices repay loans, AMA says. ... Optum did not respond by press time to a request for comment on this story.

Optum should also work with UnitedHealthcare to pause claims filing deadlines that date back to when Change's services were not online, preventing them from submitting claims as normal.

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She said she has at least 322 claims under review by Optum, which amounts to $23,992 of unpaid claims. "It's very hard because my clinicians are getting paid.

Envision Healthcare claims UnitedHealth Group is forcing physician groups out of network in an effort to recruit them to its subsidiary Optum, according to a May 2 lawsuit focused on Florida-based ...