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Life at Optum
At Optum, the fastest growing part of UnitedHealth Group, we aspire to improve experiences and outcomes for everyone we serve while reducing the total cost of care. As a leading information and technology-enabled health services business we enable unprecedented collaboration and efficiency. Together, we create a healthier world. One insight, one connection, one person at a time.
Technology Careers at UnitedHealth Group
We’re not just using technology to help millions receive care, we’re evolving it. From the most advanced development tools and methodologies to the highest levels of cybersecurity, we’re doing, sharing and learning new ways to make technology and health care work better every day
What it is like to be a Customer Service Representative
Learn more about what it’s like to be a Provider Customer Service Representative.
Optum’s Heart Health Program
Take a look at how data empowers Nurse Case Managers like Kathryn to build solid relationships with our members while helping catch potential health issues before hospital care is needed.
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If you are wondering about the hiring process, looking for our upcoming events and other useful tips on how to apply, you’ve come to the right place.
Our Culture
Learn how we are building teams where every individual is recognized for their unique experience and contributions.
Join Us
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Early Careers
Looking for an internship or recent graduate role? See how you can get a head start with us.
Our Locations in India
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Our Businesses in Brazil
Our businesses are committed to transforming health care and helping people live healthier lives. We are constantly innovating and improving the health and well-being of thousands of people. Learn more about our businesses in Brazil and how we are evolving the health system everyday.
Amil is Brazil’s largest health care company, providing a wide range of medical and dental benefits through a wide network of hospital and clinical services. Constantly bringing bold new ideas and incredible technology solutions to help improve the lives of millions.
Comprised of renowned hospitals and institutions in the market of medical and hospital assistance, Americas Serviços Médicos offers best-in-class facilities and capabilities with the goal of improving health care outcomes.
Optum is a leading information and technology-enabled health services business dedicated to helping make the health system work better for everyone. Optum delivers intelligent, integrated solutions that help to modernize the health system.
Our Blog
Former Interns Tell Us How They Landed a Full Time Job at UnitedHealth Group
Getting an internship UnitedHealth Group is not only an opportunity to do something extraordinary with your summer, it’s also an opportunity to land your first full time job. Most college students know the last internship before graduation is perhaps the most important one.
Ensuring you are a right fit before you apply
So you’ve searched our open jobs and are ready to submit your application. But how do you know if a specific job is right for you? Here are four questions to consider before applying
Telecommuting During COVID-19
Here at UnitedHealth Group, we've adjusted the way we work as a result of COVID-19. At this moment, 90% of our non-clinical staff is working from home around the globe, prior to COVID-19 42% of our non-clinical staff was already working from home. This is a change for many of our employees, so we provided them with tips to set them up for success. If you find yourself in unfamiliar territory working remotely for the first time, we hope you'll find these useful.
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Big Data and Health Care
At UnitedHealth Group we work with the largest collection of health related data. It's an opportunity and challenge on an enormous scale using SAS, R/Python, Hadoop, MapReduce and every emerging platform that makes sense for a team that makes the biggest difference in health care. Check out our interview with Ashish C., an Analytics Senior Director here to learn more.
How Innovation Drives Health Care
At UnitedHealth Group, the technology and innovation we invent is in service of a future where health care serves everyone more fairly, productively and consistently. We put a series of questions to Pat Keran, Senior Director at Optum, to explain what innovation means for his team, UnitedHealth Group and health care globally.
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Telecommuting During COVID-19
Here at UnitedHealth Group, we've adjusted the way we work as a result of COVID-19. At this moment, 90% of our non-clinical staff is working from home around the globe, prior to COVID-19 42% of our non-clinical staff was already working from home. This is a change for many of our employees, so we provided them with tips to set them up for success. If you find yourself in unfamiliar territory working remotely for the first time, we hope you'll find these useful.
6 Tips to Help You Reach the Interview Stage
Ready to apply? That's great! Or maybe you've applied a few times and clicked on this blog out of frustration. Whatever the reason, we’re glad you're here. Let's get down to the nitty gritty and give you the information you’re looking for. We've put together some tips based to help you be more successful when applying at UnitedHealth Group.
Pharmacy Technician Career Paths at UnitedHealth Group
A Pharmacy Technician career at UnitedHealth Group can be challenging, yet very rewarding at the same time. Our Pharmacy Technicians aren’t just clerks and cashiers. At UnitedHealth Group, they work in a fast-paced environment directly with patients entering and filling prescriptions and communicate with physician’s offices to provide personal and detailed service.
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Telecommuting During COVID-19
Here at UnitedHealth Group, we've adjusted the way we work as a result of COVID-19. At this moment, 90% of our non-clinical staff is working from home around the globe, prior to COVID-19 42% of our non-clinical staff was already working from home. This is a change for many of our employees, so we provided them with tips to set them up for success. If you find yourself in unfamiliar territory working remotely for the first time, we hope you'll find these useful.
6 Tips to Help You Reach the Interview Stage
Ready to apply? That's great! Or maybe you've applied a few times and clicked on this blog out of frustration. Whatever the reason, we’re glad you're here. Let's get down to the nitty gritty and give you the information you’re looking for. We've put together some tips based to help you be more successful when applying at UnitedHealth Group.
Pharmacy Technician Career Paths at UnitedHealth Group
A Pharmacy Technician career at UnitedHealth Group can be challenging, yet very rewarding at the same time. Our Pharmacy Technicians aren’t just clerks and cashiers. At UnitedHealth Group, they work in a fast-paced environment directly with patients entering and filling prescriptions and communicate with physician’s offices to provide personal and detailed service.
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Connecting Globally – Insight into Working on a Global Team
Find out what it takes to work on a global team and how we use technology to support communication.
Innovation driven culture at Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group
At Optum, the fastest growing part of UnitedHealth Group, innovation isn’t restricted to a team, business or location. Innovation is in our DNA and we invest in service of a future where health care serves everyone better.
A Day in the Life – An Interview with an Optum HouseCalls Nurse Practitioner and a UnitedHealthcare Nurse Case Manager
A Nursing career at UnitedHealth Group can be challenging, yet very rewarding at the same time. Our Registered Nurses and Nurse Practitioners are caregivers through and through. At UnitedHealth Group, they work in a fast-paced environment directly with patients providing compassionate, personal care.
Optum is redefining care delivery.
At Optum, we put the physician at the center and reward them for spending more time with each patient. We’re at the forefront of value-based care as we build our physician-led, evidence-based practice model. We’re achieving this by mentoring our new physicians and giving them all of the support and resources they need to keep patients healthy.
Your ideas and thought leadership will be welcome as we continue to build local care delivery systems including primary care–based medical groups, independent physician associations, specialists as well as ambulatory surgery and urgent care centers.
At Optum, the fastest-growing part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, we are constantly looking for ways to improve lives and drive performance in the health care system. Join us and start doing your life’s best work. SM
Physicians & Medical Directors
Health care is changing in ways that open doors for all of us, including physicians like you, who want to move beyond private practice. There are many reasons why your experience here will be unique. Here, you can create the kind of change that makes health care more responsive, innovative and effective as you work at the top of your license.
Nurse Practitioners & Physician Assistants
There’s not an organization in the world that has found more ways to involve and engage Advanced Practice Care Providers like you. Our goal is to bring an integrated level of decision making and care from you, as Advanced Practice Care Providers. Here you’ll have access to vital education and coaching that results in improved total care for members.
Additional Resources
- Center for Clinician Advancement
- Joy in Practice initiative at CFCA
- OptumHealth offers free CME course
Our Family of Businesses
The delivery of effective health care begins with committed doctors and caregivers, like yourself, working in your local community. Your work is supported with the latest technologies, efficient operations, dedicated people and accurate, accessible information from our full network.
Our Care Delivery Organizations (CDO’s) in our family of businesses at UnitedHealth Group, pictured here, draw from an empowered physician model. This enables you as providers, to focus on quality care delivery to achieve greater outcomes for your patients and communities.
Deliver Value-Based Care
With more than 70,000 clinicians, Optum is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible by bringing our vision for the future to life in new and better ways. Our team-based model puts clinicians like you at the center of care and surrounds you with the tools and support needed to be your best, while increasing impact in the community and taking advantage of greater career opportunities.
Network with Unlimited Energy
Optum, the fastest-growing part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses is the nation’s largest employer of physicians. Our operational strength and marketplace momentum has helped us staff and operate more local clinics, surgery centers, urgent care centers, skilled nursing facilities and nursing homes across the country than ever before. And that has direct benefits for you.
Transform Health Care
Innovation is not limited to technology. It can vastly improve the way physicians like you work together and deliver care. Our deep analytical capabilities and health information system technologies enable better decision-making at every point along the care continuum. The end result is a health care system that’s more responsive, innovative and effective.