Accelerating value-based care

Through the combined capabilities of UnitedHealthcare and Optum, we are accelerating the transition from a fee-for-service to a value-based system of care delivery. Value-based care arrangements are designed to manage health care costs and improve the patient experience.

For patients:

We are simplifying the health care experience and focusing on whole-person health, making high-quality care accessible whenever and wherever patients need it, and enabling better outcomes.

For care providers:

We are creating greater capacity for patient care, ensuring physicians have the time, tools and insights they need to not only care for patients when they are sick, but to help keep them well.

For payers:

We’re helping every health care dollar go further by making high-quality care more accessible and affordable, and making it easier to keep chronic conditions in check.

Medicare Advantage value-based care demonstrates superior patient outcomes

Optum Health primary care practices outperform competitors when treating Medicare Advantage patients

Feb. 11, 2025 

Putting the patient first

Value-based care is a UnitedHealth Group ambition grounded in our ability to create connections across care delivery, technology, pharmacy, benefits and financial services — centered around the patient and provider.  

Having these capabilities under one roof, with the ability to tackle the complexities of the health system at scale, is essential to improving health care in this country.

We are now serving 4.7 million people in value-based care models, more than twice as many as three years ago, by:

  • Consistently delivering differentiated clinical quality through evidence-based medicine, proactive patient engagement and deeply coordinated care.

  •  Unifying our operating infrastructure and systems to serve more patients across more geographies and plan partners.

Hear how it works from just a few of our dedicated physicians and clinicians:

See our Sustainability Report to learn more about our initiatives to accelerate the transition to value-based, comprehensive care.
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