Layoffs 2025 Optum. According to published reports, several local health care facilities operated by optum will be affected by layoffs announced july 18 by unitedhealth group, optum’s parent company. Optum, a healthcare company owned by unitedhealth group, is laying off 525 people in multiple locations, many of them at urgent care facilities in southern california.

We hoped industry layoffs would relent in 2024. Unitedhealth group’s optum health division will lay off 524 employees in california and remote locations, according to a report by the state’s employee development department.