If you are impacted by today’s layoff please post here to help consolidate information. Please post your division (Optum Tech, Optum Insight, OptumRX, etc) if you feel comfortable, how many people in your team. If you want to go deeper like M&R, E&I, etc that helps.
Don’t forget, you will get through this, you will bounce back. This place is toxic and I hope we all can find some peace.
@bd Yes, E&I Appeals. 18 people let go.
@b2 which team is this?
Potts : director. Senior ICM’s , ICM and 3 mangers Optum Health. That place has been a real shi! Show under Karen. But the people who should get laid off is the leadership.
E&I appeals has been affected.
For ECS:, director, managers, SR ICMs
Has anyone in House Calls or the Home & Community (naviHeakth) been impacted?
I was let go today. Last day 2/6. The company I worked for originally was purchased by Change Healthcare right before Change was acquired by Optum. Got the 15 minute notification for a touchpoint with immediate boss and director. As another poster specified I was also read the line:
"As you know, we frequently review our staffing numbers in order to make health care affordable for our members ..."
Was on a team that was too small already to keep up with the work.
Zmuda is such a clown. Hate being in her org. So much micromanagement and incompetence
@a5 Me too, along with a bunch of other people. Looks like a massive purge is underway.
Optum health - director and managers and senior ICM
@aj is there also a clause that holds them to the same disparagement agreement? If not, I would advocate for that.
Any word on Wellmed Tx? Previous posts mentioned they were on the radar for today- crickets so far.
Got laid off. Last day Feb 6th. Floating Holiday doesn't count towards the 40 hours of PTO they pay out so make sure you use it. Optum Tech South Region/Wellmed.
one gone in my team under Zmuda
@ab, do you have any more details on VACCN or OptumServe?
A few managers and several people from various teams just got laid off from Ramu's org
@aw I was in Spilker's org, so that tracks
@aw sorry to hear that, what is your role and what’s spilker.org
Was let go today with last day being feb6th. In coding from change healthcare. There was 10 of us in the meeting. The list I got shows over 60 let go from change healthcare part of Optum.
Yep got laid off today from Optum health. Heard overall going to be 25% from Spilker org
@ae Thanks for posting this site: https://www.tiktok.com/@iamafraidourtimeisup
What a sick and dysfunctional organization I work for. I am embarrassed and sickened beyond belief. Incompetency at its finest. It's no wonder we (Optum/UHG) are in the situation we are in, and the stock dropped like a rock last year.
@aq I was just in a 1:1 with my skip level
A friend’s step dad was let go today from UHC. He’s a call center supervisor. They are moving to the supervisors managing 20 staff
You can go over to X at the MedicalQuack and I give you all the coverage I can..been following UNH since 2008..the business of it, yesterday was a waste of time with Congress, those folks are too d-mb..anyway just an FYI as I'm not the press if you will..take and read what you want..posted today on the layoffs..
Are people getting individual calls or team calls for Rifs?
@a6 I was asked by my manager for my cellphone number as well yesterday, but it’s been quiet on my end. Very weird.
@ac often it does, but I'm not sure that's the case here. Hoping OP will clarify.
Yep. Layoffs in marketing.
Let go Optum health marketing
A word of caution when talking to the media, read your severance agreement. There is usually an anti-disparagement clause that gives them to right to stop giving you severance.
That being said, after you get all your money, have at it.
@a6 Oh wow, Odd, I was asked yesterday by my Leader, what My Employee ID was? I thought it was so strange of an ask, I mean, They can look that up.. HMMM. I haven't heard anything as of yet regarding my position.
This journalist is also looking for information on the Optum layoffs: Mansur.Shaheen@FT.com
https://www.thelayoff.com/post/@OP+1kchty4m0
@aa that is a full of sh-t lie. At OT we build products that easily save millions each year while costing way less money in labor to run. Not once have I ever seen them reduce premiums or deductibles. All I’ve seen in our profit rise without giving back to our members or employees. Fu-k them for being gaslighting piece of sh--s.
Got cut from Optum Health this morning. I'm contacting Dr. Owen Muir as he posts to about Optum layoffs on TikTok:
https://x.com/ScottMuirMD
https://www.tiktok.com/@iamafraidourtimeisup
@a1 Landwehr resigned for a new company. Not RIF
@a9 EMEA = Europe/MiddleEast/Asia
VA Community Care Network.
Gone from Optum Tech. Apparently the only one from a team of 12 people.
"As you know, we frequently review our staffing numbers in order to make health care affordable for our members ..."
Good to know I'm being canned for completely altruistic reasons!
@a6 I'm sorry to hear this. What's EMEA? I was in a similar situation and took the severance. What happens if you don't find a role in four weeks? Can you take the severance then?
Rec,d the dreaded 15 minute invite - Optum Medical behavioral