Have there been any layoffs?

Optum layoffs: naviHealth CEO out; Virtual care business shuttered

For those of you recently laid off, are you having any luck finding new roles? Internal or external? If internal, are you landing at same, higher, or lower GLs?

Just looking at benefits with impending doom of layoffs..I'll be with optum 2 years in June, and I'm reading you're 100% vested with UHG match at 2 years. Does anyone know if that's to the day, like let's say you started June 15, would it be June... — read more 

#CHAxed

https://www.thelayoff.com/change-healthcare In light of the ransomware attack, Change Healthcare finds itself marginalized by Optum/UHG, its reputation tarnished as if afflicted by a plague. The urgency to revive the Change Healthcare layoffs... — read more 

Curious how the layoffs have affected Optum's I-SNP and IE-SNP team. Have heard many layoffs here as well, and enrollment freezes in certain states. I'm a health care journalist.

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/optum-undergoes-mass-layoffs-scale-unclear

sad news, lot of people let go from change. Products getting shutdown and no way to restore. It will continue to happen entire 2024!

The Landmark model is slowly ending. If they are laying off doctors, then you know your role ain't important enough not to get cut. Stop expecting to hear something they don't care about YOU. They are in billions of debt and getting sued by families... — read more 

So many Optum folks are #OpenToWork. It's scary to see, to be honest.

https://www.beckerspayer.com/payer/highest-paid-payer-ceos-in-2023.html?origin=BHRE&utm_source=BHRE&utm_medium=email&utm_content=newsletter&oly_enc_id=6188A0242256G0A Highest Paid CEO= Biggest Cyber Scr$w= Biggest RIFs (without WARN act)=Biggesr... — read more 

How can we get the DOJ to 100x move the company into breaking up and stop monopolizing the medical industry……this is ridiculous…I’m ashamed to have my work experience and name tagged along with this he-ll hole of a company.

So curiously, UHG says the Change breach has cost it $847M dollars. And yet, magically, this will not impact the overall profit of UHG. More strangely, a (probably oversharing) C-level, in a divisional meeting, directly blamed various merit increase... — read more 

You don’t hear about any talk of layoffs I asked my manager with things that were changing? anything going on? Should we be concerned? no response. So much for transparency. Obvious people are gone emails have no out of office replies wondering what... — read more 

https://www.modernhealthcare.com/insurance/change-healthcare-update-cyberattack-cost-unitedhealth When profit is up by 14%+ and $376B revenue, $22M is such a small price to pay for cyber actors. Furthermore, all the massive RIFs secure all the execs... — read more 

Check this article out: https://www.modernhealthcare.com/insurance/optum-layoffs-navihealth-unitedhealth-group-uhg

Any layoffs at the hospitals acquired by optum? Bassett health, John Muir, northern light heath, Owensboro Health etc?

Is Optum installing tracking apps or software on our work laptops to monitor what we are doing, for layoffs? Is there any trust in employees, and privacy???

I keep hoping after every new layoff that we'll have a decent amount of time to recover and relax, but within months something else happens. Is this how things will be from now? I feel like we can all collectively kiss job security goodbye and just... — read more 

See p. 56 here: https://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/content/dam/UHG/PDF/investors/2024/2024_proxy_statement_final.pdf Andrew Witty total: $23,534,936

https://youtu.be/A-jZ0eVEbxk?feature=shared They're gonna try real hard to make sure it doesn't happen again

Please resign Call Dave W’man to take over Call John S and D to replace 0.000X comedian World will forgive you. Do it before Elizabeth Warren makes a mince meat of you.

Look up Bloomberg news. Contracts already not being renewed within company. Why would anyone believe home health contracts will be renewed? Hello!!! We need some good leadership now who will ask questions!! Stop with all the "quality" cr-p. You have... — read more 

The latest layoffs have convinced me that there's no future for me here. I'm now looking for something new, and I'll quit as soon as I find it.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/unitedhealth-ceo-testify-before-us-house-panel-cyberattack-tech-unit-2024-04-19/

Does anyone know why nothing is being communicated to the NCMs at landmark. We have not had any special meetings or updates in the middle of this layoff madness. We have no clue what is happening or even what our jobs will look like in a month. I’ve... — read more 

For those still here, not a single message from leadership addressing the layoffs. Two vey general emails about changes to the org and some “retirements”. I wholeheartedly believe they were forced “ retirements”. Nothing to allay fears. No... — read more 

As Landmark/HBMC, Sr community care, Navi and Housecalls become one what is the next to go? Each function as their own business but there has to be a lot of internal overlap. How many shared services will be cut? NPs, SW, NCM , ect? It feels like we... — read more 

has anyone heard about CHAs and CCs being let go anytime soon? big talk about central completely taking over from higher ups. guess it’s just the waiting game. CC supervisors already have been let go so who are managing the CCs now?

If your job is being outsourced file a TAA petition to get extra unemployment, reduced health care cost, etc. When the petition gets approved, it is normally for the entire location, so everyone in that location gets TAA... — read more 

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/04/22/unitedhealth-paid-ransom-to-bad-actors-says-patient-data-was-compromised-in-change-healthcare-cyberattack.html

Harrison First, CEO of H&C Care Transitions (former naviHealth) announced his resignation today. Part of me thinks it was heroic and based on personal values ? Like he was fed up with these horrible layoffs and doesn't want to be part of the... — read more 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/change-healthcare-hackers-broke-in-nine-days-before-ransomware-attack-7119fdc6

Does anyone know what’s going on with the second ransom demand? Apparently UHC was given an April 19th deadline or the hackers would start posting member data on the dark web. I wonder if that’s why Witty blew off the Congressional hearing. — read more 

I don’t get how some departments, payment integrity specifically, can hire new people, have open positions, current promotions with in team, but yet laying off. It’s not about getting lean and keeping only the positions that are necessary. These are... — read more 

On the Q1 Investor Call AW says America and Change are lucky UHG that UHG bought Change, because otherwise CHC would have basically been destroyed and unable to recover. tldr; AW: "You d-mb*sses are lucky we own you or you'd be toast. p.s. not UHG's... — read more 

Are we going to see even more cuts this week?