[UPLIFTING MELODY]
[UPLIFTING MELODY CONTNUES]
At Wespath, one of the things we try really hard to do
in the health benefits area, is to provide tools
to our participants to help them navigate,
to help them make smart decisions.
And we rely heavily on our vendor partners
to be able to provide those tools.
Everybody's struggling today with how to pay for healthcare.
And so one of the value items
I think we can bring as an organization,
is helping people navigate that healthcare system
a little bit easier.
[Kelly Wittich] So part of the value that I think OptumRx brings
to our plan is that they help bring that expertise--
that pharmacy expertise.
[Kelly Wittich] Medications are probably one of the highest drivers
of increased costs for healthcare, and it's certainly
one of the growing costs for our health plan.
[Kelly Wittich] And so we rely on the expertise from OptumRx
and their clinicians and their ability to use data
to really help us.
[Scott Draeger] Optum's access to data...
Our ability to drive positive outcomes
through connected care, is really unrivaled in the industry.
That being said, I think it goes beyond data.
Our teams understand that behind the data,
there's real people, there's real families.
[Kelly Wittich] I often put myself in the shoes of my participants
and say how is this benefit working for them
at this challenging time in their life?
And so partnering with OptumRx has been part of
allowing us to care for our folks in that way.
I just believe in Optum's mission.
I'm a pharmacist, right? I went to school to help people.
[Scott Draeger] There are really caring people here
and it just excites me
when I look at how we're incorporating technology
but how we're still focusing on that member experience,
that individual.
Every single one of our members deserves
the personal care when they need it.
It's critical to be fair and to be a good steward.
It's thrilling and a huge sigh of relief
when you know that all the things that are put in place,
that they end up making peoples' lives better.
[MELODY SWELLS AND FADES]