I don't know if I could describe my job to a five year old.
I work with a team of people
that make sure that what people say they do,
they've done.
I practiced clinically for 20 years,
and then, I liked it so much that I went back to school
and I got my family nurse practitioner.
So in addition to what I do for Optum,
Optum has given me the opportunity
to continue to work clinically part-time.
And I work as a practitioner part-time
for nursing homes in my area.
So I have the best of both worlds and it's been really great.
She handed me a spreadsheet with about 100 claims
and she said,
"We're trying to figure out what kind of audit
is being done on these claims, can you help us?"
And I said, "Oh, sure."
And I looked at them, I said, "Well, that's clinical validation."
And she said, "Oh, what's that?"
And that was it.
It just kind of took off from there.
And the next thing you know,
we got to be part of the creation
of clinical validation for Optum
and very, very proud of that.
Very proud of that, yeah.
100 claims on the spreadsheet.
We say it was the spreadsheet heard around the world
or at least around the Optum world anyway.
I get to work with coders, with clinicians,
and then just I get to work with all the teams
across payment integrity and managed services.
So it's such a great collaborative effort
and it couldn't be done without teamwork.
And they're passionate about what they do
and, you know, they want to help.
And I just have had a great experience here.
It's the people, the people matter.