Payer or Provider? Lines blur as United Health buys Physician Group

UnitedHealth’s Optum unit will acquire the physician group from DaVita, a large for-profit chain of dialysis centers.

Here are some of the numbers:

-Purchase price of $4.9b
-300 clinics in 6 states
-Already own 250 Urgent Care Centers
-Currently has 30,000 employed docs

From a supply point of view this becomes very interesting. Should suppliers, GPOs and Distributors be treating United Health like a National Account?

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