Here are four updates on the company:
1. Optum will acquire financially troubled Dallas-based Steward Health Care’s physician group.
2. Optum received approval to bypass a state review of its planned purchase of physician-owned Corvallis (Ore.) Clinic
3. Former employees of Optum have reported on social media that the company is conducting layoffs.
4. On Feb. 21, UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare, which is part of Optum, reported “enterprise-wide connectivity issues” that turned into a large-scale cybersecurity incident.
