Telephonic CM is Primary focus - Manager of CM Optum Employee Review

2.0
8 Mar 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Loved the people I worked with. Very encouraging and we were all focused on a common goal. Very family oriented teams!

Cons

Telephonic CM is good for nurses who want to get their foot in the door for case management but Optum does not offer CM and UM so understanding of the CM process is fragmented and sometimes difficult to understand since your 3 wk classroom orientation is different from what you will actually be doing. For management roles outside of the company, beware. Outside leadership has a difficult time adjusting to the OPTUM was of thinking. The Atalanta office is riddled with poor performers and office politics and in an effort to get them back on track, it requires a lot of changes with turn over. Very stressful for staff. Heavy loads with high expectations. Nurses feel like cold call telemarketers rather than seasoned clinical professionals and patient educators. Difficult to feel like they are making a difference since calls are monitored, timed and subject to metric driven stats.

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Pros

Great Pay. Great Benefits. Great People. awesome front line management. Frequent meals and employee input.

Cons

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3.0
4 Jun 2026
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Pros

Some very talented people give so much of themselves to the company, the clients and their co-workers. I work with (and have worked with) some excellent, smart, supportive people.

Cons

Too many layoffs. Upper management is clueless about how the day to day work gets done, what it takes to make certain changes to processes, and how to treat employees. Some are great. Mostly, they just look at numbers. So many of us have been doing our jobs long enough to know what is needed for certain requests. But we don't get a voice. We just have to do it and suck it up. They are firing ('reduction in force') all of the seasoned staff and let the rest deal with the fall-out. So many teams are losing good people but those people are training their off-shore replacements before they are told about being cut. So how is that a reduction in force? It's just a reduction in payroll numbers. Everyone is on edge just waiting for the next axe to fall. And we have to try and learn or teach another role with less experienced people and more work. It's crazy. On milestone anniversaries, they send an email recognition but once the milestone gets to over 15 years, you are a target. Pay and benefits are fine by me. Raises are practically non-existent, even after layoffs and asking employees to take on more responsibility. that's messed up. They talk about work/life balance but that doesn't trickle down to the actual workers who are so stressed they fear for their jobs if they don't do the extra mile. Many of us are just hanging on instead of quitting so we can at least get some severance. Others are actively looking.

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