📻: Does UnitedHealthcare Pay Optum Providers Differently? w/ Dan Arnold

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Does UnitedHealthcare Pay Optum Providers Differently? w/ Dan Arnold ([link removed] )

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Dan Arnold of Brown University to discuss his recent paper exploring higher payments within UnitedHealth’s Optum network, which found UHC Paid Optum providers more than non-Optum Providers using price transparency data.

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