Optum Centers of Excellence Program Expands Access to Mayo Clinic Services
August 05 2015 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
- Innovative program expands access to
leading Mayo Clinic experts for patients requiring treatment for
cancer, bariatric surgery, heart failure, congenital heart disease
and infertility
- Builds on existing Transplant Services
Center of Excellence relationship
Optum and Mayo Clinic announced that health plans and employers
participating in Optum’s leading Centers of Excellence (COE)
program now have access to high-quality, cost-effective care from
Mayo Clinic care providers who are experts in treating complex and
rare conditions.
Optum’s Centers of Excellence provide best-in-class capabilities
with proven clinical quality and predictable consumer outcomes. The
Center of Excellence designation includes condition-specific,
high-performing programs with specialized clinical expertise and
care management to support consumer engagement.
Mayo Clinic has participated in Optum’s Transplant COE program
for the last 11 years. With this expanded relationship, Mayo Clinic
is now also a participant in Optum’s Centers of Excellence for
Cancer, Bariatric Surgery and Heart Failure for Mayo Clinic
locations in Arizona, Florida and Rochester, Minn.
Mayo Clinic’s Rochester location is also participating in
Optum’s COEs for Congenital Heart Disease and Infertility
services.
“This expanded relationship with Mayo Clinic provides patients
in participating health plans from around the country with greater
access to clinically superior, cost-effective health care,” said
Mike Weissel, CEO of Optum Consumer Solutions.
“Health plans and employers know the value of sending patients
with complex and or rare conditions to high-quality centers such as
Mayo Clinic. Mayo Clinic participation in the Optum Centers of
Excellence program will enable patients to receive state-of-the art
care from highly experienced physicians and health care teams for
these conditions,” said Charles Rosen, M.D., medical director,
contracting and payer relations at Mayo Clinic.
The Optum Transplant Centers of Excellence network was developed
in 1986 and has grown to be the largest network of its kind in the
world, managing more than 14,000 transplant referrals annually.
Today, Optum offers products and services that promote safe,
effective and cost-efficient treatment options for many other
complex medical conditions.
The Optum Centers of Excellence program yields tangible results
that help improve care while reducing cost. For example, the Optum
transplant COE and clinical management program average length of
stay was 21 percent lower than the national benchmark in 2013. The
program also measured a 16 percent lower incidence than expected by
avoiding unnecessary and inappropriate transplants through better
diagnosis and more appropriate treatment identification.
This is the third major initiative between Mayo Clinic and
Optum. In 2013 the two organizations jointly launched OptumLabs, an
open collaborative center for health care research, innovation and
translation, which later welcomed AARP as its Founding Consumer
Advocate Partner. OptumLabs today has 22 partners in total and has
begun publishing results from the more than 100 studies currently
in its research pipeline. Earlier this year, Mayo Clinic announced
its partnership with Optum360 for revenue management services.
About Mayo ClinicMayo Clinic is a nonprofit organization
committed to medical research and education, and providing expert,
whole-person care to everyone who needs healing. For more
information,
visit http://mayocl.in/1ohJTMS or http://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org
About OptumOptum is a leading information and
technology-enabled health services business dedicated to helping
make the health system work better for everyone. Optum delivers
intelligent, integrated solutions to modernize the health system
and improve overall population health. For more information, visit
www.optum.com.
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OptumJeffrey Smith,
612-632-6213jeffrey.p.smith@optum.comorMayo ClinicJoe
Dangor, 507-284-5005newsbureau@mayo.edu
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