OptumHealth Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"OHBS was an excellent place to work for."

"A great place to work"

What do you like about working at OptumHealth?

"Very flexable with work schedules, overall great company"

What don't you like about working at OptumHealth?

"Little room for advancement"

"Good organization."

What do you like about working at OptumHealth?

"Co-workers and progressive company."

What don't you like about working at OptumHealth?

"Work by phone rather than in person."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Research programs more thoroughly before initiating; therefore, eliminating numerous changes which can be chaotic and lessen productivity."

"Loved job, communicated information directly to physicians."

What do you like about working at OptumHealth?

"Interacting with professionals, in a positive way to use funds prudently. Setting goals for patient and coordinating discharge planning for a good transition to home, witih follow up care and transportation set up if needed and policy allowed."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Telephonic Case Management requires a visual picture of the patient - status, activity level, meds, IV's etc. You have to have good assessment skills and good documentation review skills to decipher status, progress and MD notations. Sometimes discussing plan and desired outcome with case manager or physician on phone is necessary."

What don't you like about working at OptumHealth?

"The salary I started out was $54,000; which was good for entry level or mid..I felt for more experienced it could have been higher."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I was pleased with management. My manager wasa Michelle Miller. We had a very good working relationship."

"Not a supportive work environment and you need to be able to work without assistance."

What do you like about working at OptumHealth?

"Work environment provided the ability to evaluate many testing tools."

What don't you like about working at OptumHealth?

"Management is not supportive if you require learning their processing initiatives."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Document current processes through job aides will allow new employees to follow functional iniatives without interruption in functional and operational work flows."

"United Healthcare is a well established company with vast opportunties"

What do you like about working at OptumHealth?

"It is growing industry, with so many different divisions and occupations to grow in"

"Would not go back"

What do you like about working at OptumHealth?

"They let me work from my beach house."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Avoid until you see what the health care reform will do to the healthcare insurance industry."

What don't you like about working at OptumHealth?

"They really did not want me to identify the problems that they did not know they had, til they hired me away to investigate their issues."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't back date stock options, the SEC will nail you and did nail you for it."

"Good place to work."

"I'm unsure what the point of the review is."

What do you like about working at OptumHealth?

"contract assignment. I liked the fact that they trust you to do your duties without standing over you."

What don't you like about working at OptumHealth?

"I want stability. I want to settle in one company. I don't want to move from company to company anymore."

"Good experience. Learned a lot. Got a chance to grow my skill set."

What do you like about working at OptumHealth?

"Good company, good benefits. Learned a lot and got a chance to develop my skill set."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be sure to have a passion for the health care industry, and for helping people live healthier lives."

What don't you like about working at OptumHealth?

"Had to go through a lot of layers of personnel to get projects completed. Had a lot of protocol and procedures to navigate."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Need decisions to be made with clear direction. Many projects were rushed to production without completely thinking through strategies, consumer impact etc."

"Really bad work environment.Management does NOT trust staff."

What do you like about working at OptumHealth?

"Received a paycheck and most workers were great. Gave us coffee."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"RUN AWAY FOR THE INTERVIEW!!!!!!!!!!! Bad management who is mean to staff."

What don't you like about working at OptumHealth?

"Bad bosses. Condesending. Harrassing. Always looking to find ways to make you feel wrong. Never around. Never created a trusting environment."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get ready for EEOC lawsuits. Worst environment that I have ever worked in."

"Optum is a great company to work with. The culture is one of the best in the country (I have consulted to many fortune companies in the past).Employees are valued and there are high expectations in terms of performance, integrity and values."

"I see that Optum is a great place to work for full time employees. There are plenty of opportunities that are available for full time employees but not for others that are deployed at on-site."

"Horrible company to work for. I was surprised to find out they were affiliated with United Health Care. The location I worked for was in Phoenix, AZ, management was so insane, the turnover rate was that of a telemarketing job."