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Why choose Optum Care?
Personalized, coordinated care
Every Optum doctor is held accountable for delivering the highest standard of care. Our teams take the time to explain everything carefully and guide your clients through their choices.
If a specialist is needed, we’ll connect your clients to the right one and share important health details.
Focus on overall health
We go beyond caring for patients just when they're sick. We help connect patients to communities that support overall health, including:
- Online or in-person classes
- Exercise and recreational programs
Caring for the whole person
Our care teams offer a unique approach. It combines the latest scientific information with a focus on the whole person. This results in:
- Fewer hospital admissions1
- Shorter nursing home stays2
- Fewer re-hospitalizations3
Nine out of 10 patients would tell a friend to see their Optum Care doctor.4
How does Optum Care help you succeed?
- Filter and search for primary care providers that fit your criteria
- Match each patient with the right doctor in minutes
- Onboard clients with roadmaps and timelines to show them what’s next
- Get support from local marketing teams for educational and sales activities
- Grow your business with shareable educational and sales materials
Why Medicare Advantage? Healthier care
- Cost savings
56% of adults ages 65+ don’t pay a premium for MA. Also, the program caps out-of-pocket expenses, offering predictability and lower costs.5
- Improved outcomes or results
30-day readmission rate among MA beneficiaries was 13% to 20% lower than the rate for those with traditional fee-for-service Medicare.6
- More benefits
Over 80% of MA plans offer at least a vision, hearing, wellness or dental benefit.7
- Customer satisfaction
94% of MA beneficiaries reported that they are satisfied with the quality of care received.8
How we work with you
Agent guide
Important information about our care model and how we help you grow your business.
Broker code of conduct
Integrity and a high standard of ethics are fundamental to our working relationship with brokers.
Optum and Medicare Advantage
Find out how Optum helps your clients get better health care at lower costs.
- Better Medicare Alliance. Medicare Advantage Report. Accessed August 14, 2020.
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- This is according to Press Ganey patient satisfaction survey results for patient visits from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020.
- Kaiser Family Foundation. A Dozen Facts About Medicare Advantage in 2019. Accessed August 14, 2020.
- Better Medicare Alliance. Medicare Advantage Report. Accessed August 14, 2020.
- Ibid.
- Ibid.