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Optum Advisory: Sustainable Growth and Margin Consulting

Our experts can help you evaluate how to sustainably grow revenue and manage margins to support a strong financial foundation.

Achieving sustainable growth

Our experts can help build a strong foundation for your organization’s financial operations. This includes developing products to attract and retain new members, growing service lines, expanding network relationships and improving your revenue cycle performance. We can also help you identify new approaches to value-based care, Medicare and Medicaid as well as risk-contracting performance. 

Our areas of focus include:

  • Growing participation in government programs
  • Revenue cycle performance
  • Value-based care performance
  • Service line and market growth
  • Margin management

Key benefits

Drive business success with comprehensive strategic planning services tailored to your organization.

Enhance long-term growth strategies

Navigate industry changes with comprehensive strategic planning services that include long-term visioning, goal setting and action planning.

Grow participation in government programs

Identify areas to increase participation in government programs like Medicare and Medicaid and improve performance ratings.

Improve revenue cycle management

Pinpoint areas for possible revenue capture and identify opportunities to reduce cost-to-collect and improve administrative services. 

Improve value-based care performance

Improve outcomes with population health programs and custom value-based care (VBC) contracts while tracking and managing performance.

Expand into new markets and service lines

Diversify revenue streams and expand market presence by identifying and entering new markets and expanding service line capabilities. 

Our experts are ready to take on your most pressing challenges

And we’re here to help you achieve measurable impact on your mission-critical initiatives. We’ve worked with other leaders to:

  • Add 120,000 members on schedule for Medicaid expansion
  • Improve revenue integrity by $24M over 3 years for a 2-campus academic medical center
  • Identify a $17M annualized workforce productivity cost savings for a large regional health system
  • Identify a $47M supply chain and purchased services cost savings for a regional health system*

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*These figures reflect historical client results but are not a promise of future returns.
All data is used in a manner that is compliant with applicable law as well as pursuant to HIPAA compliant data rights granted to Optum by Covered Entities.