In July 2019, John Muir Health and Optum announced the details of their new, comprehensive relationship as a thoughtful solution to advancing high quality, convenient and affordable health care to consumers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Optum provides managed services across a broad set of non-clinical functions for John Muir Health, including information technology, revenue cycle management, analytics, purchasing and strategic transformation initiatives. Optum also helps to accelerate John Muir Health’s ability to deliver value-based care by managing its ambulatory care coordination, specifically in the areas of case management and utilization management, and managing the administrative operations for John Muir Health's delegated risk business.
Combining the local health care subject matter expertise from John Muir Health with Optum's operational experience and transformational services and consulting represents a new model for partnerships that drive health system performance. By working with Optum, John Muir Health can focus on delivering the highest quality patient care while Optum delivers technology, analytics, services and operations expertise. Optum’s services and solutions enhance operational efficiency, reduce administrative workload and bring more data-driven insight to providers and patients at the point of care using its clinical technologies and advanced analytic tools.