“The anxiety goes down. They feel better about what they can accomplish. They can be successful because they have the time they need to train.”
“Optum has been an excellent partner for us. They listen to what we have to say, offer any help we need, and are willing to put enhancements into effect based on our suggestions. Optum’s help and the capabilities of Audit Management make for a very powerful combination.”
“The question we asked ourselves about ACOs was, ‘If not us, who?’ We really felt like the capabilities we had been honing over the last 20 years put us in a good position in this arena.”
"Optum isn’t just a vendor; they really partner with us to identify opportunities to improve operations that we wouldn’t have identified otherwise. We’re far more successful because of their partnership."
“Every few months we are coming up with a new way to use Optum One.”
“We got such great results because it was one of our pharmacists calling, who they had either spoken with previously, or who they recognized as calling from Premier. Because they identified with that provider and had direct access to that provider, there was an automatic level of trust.”
“We chose to start with prevalent chronic diseases of hypertension and diabetes, deliberately taking the information to the physicians and working with them one-onone if necessary to help them understand what the data showed. This has fostered trust in both the data and the process. We believe that revealing variation will lead to improvement, but we need to do this in a supportive way.”
“We saw statistically significant improvement at six or 12 months in the study data, and benefits were maintained at 24 months in most patients who continued to use Arava."
“Optum definitely has the data and the technology to help us clinically and financially model our risk; that’s something that can make us more sophisticated. We can be at the forefront of changing the delivery of health care.”
“I have always believed the key to our success in managing risk successfully is by creating a culture of providercentric coordinated care.”
“We recognized that CAC Professional was just more sophisticated than the other CAC applications out there. I’ve kept an eye on the market over the years, and I still haven’t seen anything better.”
“We had developed best-in-class tools prior to our Optum affiliation, but Optum has taken us to a whole new level.”
“We focus on the patients’ pain points. It’s up to the patient to determine what’s important. We always start with a goal-setting visit and try to understand what has worked or not worked in the past. At our clinic, we focus on lifestyle changes. Sometimes, the patient’s goal might not be a scale change, but instead just increasing a patient’s self-awareness.”
“It is critical to keep track of who the patients are and where they are at with their health. We’ve started analyzing at a basic level, looking at utilization trends — both through emergency room use and hospital admissions.”
“The research is clear: when there are comorbid mental health conditions — such as depression — with medical conditions, compliance with treatment isn’t as good. You need to build mental health into wellness. It will alter the success of your programs.”