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Optum360 is now simply Optum, and the workflows are still daily work. Dedicated HIPAA-trained teams run your eligibility, claims, ERA and EFT enrollment, denial, and payment queues across Optum tools, alongside your own PM and EMR. Flat weekly pricing from $299 per FTE (volume based). Live in 14 days.

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Start with the naming: Optum360 was Optum’s revenue cycle division, and the name has largely been retired; the tools practices use today carry plain Optum branding, like Optum Intelligent EDI, Optum Pay, and Optum Payer Enrollment Services. A trusted outsourcing partner for that stack is one that works inside your own Optum accounts under named logins, with a signed BAA, and carries the results back into your PM and EMR daily. That is what Staffingly staffs: dedicated specialists for eligibility verification, claim submission and edits, claim status, denial routing, ERA and EFT enrollment, and payment reconciliation, under signed Business Associate Agreements at a flat weekly fee per specialist, never a percentage of your collections. Our specialists work US business hours inside your own systems, under named, auditable logins, with BAAs executed and HIPAA-trained staff.
The Platform

What Is Optum360, and What Is It Called Now?

Optum360 began as the dedicated revenue cycle management division of Optum, the health services arm of UnitedHealth Group, selling coding content, RCM technology, and outsourced revenue cycle services to hospitals and practices. Industry directories and analyst firms still list engagements under the Optum360 name, and plenty of billers still say it, but Optum’s current materials market the same territory under the plain Optum brand: revenue cycle management solutions such as Optum Integrity One, Patient Access, Patient Payments, and Revenue Integrity, alongside the Optum Intelligent EDI clearinghouse and Optum Pay for electronic payments and remittances. If you searched for Optum360, this is that world under its current names.

Whatever the label, the daily reality in a practice is unchanged: eligibility answers to fetch, claims to release through the clearinghouse, statuses to chase, remits to post, enrollments to file, and denials to fight, across Optum tools and the payer portals around them. Software renames itself; the queues do not. This page is about staffing those queues.

Fit

Who Is This For?

Practices and billing teams whose claims, remits, or payments run through Optum rails: an Optum Intelligent EDI clearinghouse connection, Optum Pay deposits and remittance data, Optum payer enrollment paperwork, or heavy interaction with Optum-administered plans. It also fits groups that came out of an Optum360 services relationship and now want the opposite model: people inside their own systems at a flat fee, rather than a percentage-of-collections engagement run from outside.

A note on scope. Optum is also a payer-side giant, and our teams already run Optum eligibility verification and Optum prior authorization as standalone services. This page covers the wider platform workflow; those pages go deeper on their single queues.
The Problem

Where Optum-Stack Practices Lose Time and Money

Enrollment paperwork disappears into payer queues.

ERA, EFT, and EDI enrollments get filed once, then forgotten. Months later, remits are still arriving on paper and nobody knows which application stalled where.

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ERA auto-posting buries denials as adjustments.

Electronic remits post themselves, and denial dollars quietly land in adjustment buckets no one reviews. Recoverable money gets written off by a setting.

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Claims stop moving after a clearinghouse change.

Routes and enrollments break during migrations, and the failure is silent: claims leave the PM and simply do not arrive. Someone has to reconcile sent versus accepted, daily.

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Denials get worked newest-first while old ones expire.

Without an owner and a cadence, the queue gets skimmed from the top and timely filing quietly runs out underneath. Deadlines, not effort, decide what gets paid.

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How Staffingly Supports Your Practice on the Optum Stack

Eligibility Verification

Our specialists verify coverage ahead of the schedule across Optum tools and portals, capture plan detail, copays, deductibles, and coordination of benefits, and enter the verified coverage into your PM the same day. For Optum-administered plans specifically, we run a dedicated service with its own trained bench; see Remote Optum Eligibility Verification Services.

Prior Authorization

We prepare, submit, and track prior authorization requests through the portals and workflows your Optum-administered plans require, document approval numbers and valid dates where schedulers and billers will see them, and hold pre-auth services from billing until the authorization is confirmed. Our standalone Optum Prior Authorization Services page covers this queue in depth.

Claim Submission via Optum Intelligent EDI

Where your claims route through the Optum Intelligent EDI clearinghouse, our billers release batches from your PM, review what the clearinghouse accepts and rejects, correct and resubmit the failures the same day, and reconcile sent against accepted so silent losses cannot accumulate. Access runs through your own One Healthcare ID accounts, named per specialist and approved by you.

Claim Status Follow-Up

We check claim status on a fixed cadence through the Optum portals and transaction tools available to your practice, chase unacknowledged claims first, track pends to a decision, and escalate stuck claims by phone with reference numbers documented in your PM. A status nobody reads is a denial with a head start; the cadence is the service.

Rejections and Denial Routing

Clearinghouse rejections are corrected and resubmitted within one business day. Payer denials are categorized by reason code, routed to appeal or corrected-claim paths with deadlines tracked oldest-first, and reported weekly by pattern so upstream causes get fixed instead of recycling. Where volume justifies it, our AI-assisted drafting keeps appeal letters moving without adding seats.

Optum Pay, ERA, and EFT Enrollment

Optum Pay moves payer payments and remittance data electronically, but only for providers whose enrollments are complete and current. We prepare and file EFT and ERA enrollment paperwork, including enrollments handled through Optum Payer Enrollment Services, track each application to confirmation, and maintain the matrix of which payers deliver remits where. When banking details or group NPIs change, the re-enrollment work is already owned.

Payment Posting and Reconciliation

We post electronic remits and paper EOBs into your PM with correct adjustment and denial code handling, audit what auto-posting did rather than trusting it, reconcile Optum Pay deposits against remittance data daily, and route anything that posted as an adjustment but reads like a denial into the recovery queue. The books should close every day, not every quarter.

Reporting and PM/EMR Sync

Portal answers, statuses, auth numbers, and posting notes all land in your PM and EMR, in your fields and your format, and the day ends with a production report in your inbox: what was checked, what was fixed, what needs your decision. The Optum stack stays your system of record for transactions; your PM stays your system of record for truth.

Put a Dedicated Team on Your Optum Queues

You have seen what we cover, from Intelligent EDI to Optum Pay enrollment. The next step is simple: meet us, pick the seats you need, and watch a trained team work your own queues before you commit to anything.

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Training

How Our Teams Train and Go Live on the Optum Stack

Staffingly specialist working claims and payment queues for a client practice

New team members learn clearinghouse and payment work through our SOP library and supervised training on your own setup: which PM feeds your clearinghouse connection, how your remits arrive, which payers are enrolled for which transactions, and how your practice wants statuses and denials documented. Production starts supervised, with a QA layer reviewing output before the team runs independently, and you see a production report every evening from day one. Every specialist works under an individual HIPAA agreement with named credentials you approve, never shared logins.

Why Staffingly

Why Outsource Optum-Stack Work, and Why Staffingly

One team across the stack.

Eligibility, auths, claims, remits, enrollment, and posting, worked by one dedicated team on one tracker, instead of falling between point vendors.

Flat fee, never a percentage.

Optum’s own revenue cycle services, like most large RCM vendors, price engagements around your revenue. We charge a flat weekly fee per dedicated specialist. Do the math both ways; we will help on the call.

Your systems, your control.

We work inside your Optum, PM, and EMR accounts under named logins you grant and can revoke. No migration, no black box, no lock-in.

Speed with proof.

Live in 14 days. 2-Week Free Trial. Replace any team member in 48 hours. 800+ providers served, 4.9 Google rating you can verify on our listing.

Onboarding

Process and Onboarding

1
Strategy call.

20 to 30 minutes on Teams. We map which Optum tools you use and where the queues hurt before we meet.

2
Access done right.

Named credentials per specialist across Optum, PM, and EMR, least-privilege roles, your approval on each account.

3
Training on your workflows.

Your SOPs plus our clearinghouse and payment playbooks; supervised production from day one.

4
Live in 14 days.

Daily production reports, weekly KPI review, month-to-month after your 2-Week Free Trial.

Security

Security and Compliance

HIPAA-trained staff. Business Associate Agreements executed with every client. Workflows designed to support HIPAA compliance, with SOC 2 Type II attestation, ISO 27001:2022, $5M E&O and cyber liability coverage, and named individual credentials with full audit logs. Read the complete program, including our corporate structure and evaluation framework, at HIPAA and Security at Staffingly.

Pricing

Flat Weekly Pricing Per Dedicated Specialist

Single
$399/ week

1 to 4 dedicated FTEs.

Department
$299/ week

10+ FTEs.

45 hours of coverage for less than others charge for 40.

$399 per week works out to $8.87 per hour across 2,340 hours of coverage a year, flat. Your dedicated specialist covers a 9 hour day, Monday to Friday, a full hour more than a standard shift: the day starts with the overnight rejection reports and remit files and ends after the day’s resubmissions, postings, and notes are done, so far less rolls into tomorrow. A trained backup steps in at no charge whenever they are out. Flat weekly fee per dedicated specialist, never a percentage of your collections, no setup fees.

Start with a 2-Week Free Trial. Month-to-month after, with no long-term contract.

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The In-House Comparison
$80K to $120K/yr
Per in-house biller, fully loaded
  • Salary + payroll taxes + benefits
  • Recruiting + turnover replacement
  • Training on your payers + clearinghouse
  • PM seat + equipment + PTO coverage
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Tell Us About Your Optum Workflow

Intelligent EDI, Optum Pay, payer enrollments, or the denial queue? Share a few details about which Optum tools you run and where the backlog sits, and we will map the right coverage and send pricing within 24 hours.

FAQ

Optum360 Outsourcing: Frequently Asked Questions

Is Optum360 still called Optum360?

Mostly not. Optum360 was Optum’s revenue cycle division, and current Optum marketing sells the same territory under plain Optum branding: revenue cycle management solutions, Optum Intelligent EDI, Optum Pay, and related tools. Directories and long-running contracts still carry the Optum360 name, which is why people still search for it.

What tasks can an outsourced team do across the Optum stack?

Eligibility verification, prior authorization tracking, claim release and rejection rework through Optum Intelligent EDI, claim status follow-up, denial categorization and appeals prep, ERA and EFT enrollment including Optum Pay paperwork, payment posting, and reconciliation, plus documenting each result in your PM and EMR.

Do you work with Optum as a payer too?

Yes. Optum-administered plans are a daily part of our eligibility and prior authorization services, and we run dedicated Optum eligibility and Optum prior authorization desks alongside the platform work on this page.

How is this different from Optum’s own RCM services?

Optum sells technology and outsourced revenue cycle engagements at enterprise scale. We sell dedicated people inside your own systems at a flat weekly fee per specialist, never a percentage of your collections, with your leadership keeping full control and visibility.

How do your staff access our Optum tools?

Through named individual accounts you approve, including One Healthcare ID logins where applicable, with least-privilege roles and full audit logging. No shared logins, no offline exports of PHI.

Can you fix our ERA and EFT enrollment backlog?

Yes, and it is one of the most common starting points: we inventory which payers are enrolled for which transactions, file the missing paperwork, chase each application to confirmation, and hand you a live matrix your team can finally trust.

Is outsourced Optum-stack work secure and HIPAA-ready?

HIPAA-trained staff, executed BAAs, workflows designed to support HIPAA compliance, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, and $5M in coverage. Full detail on our security page.

How fast can a dedicated team start?

Typically live in 14 days: access setup, workflow training on your SOPs, then supervised production. The engagement starts with a 2-Week Free Trial.

Dan Nandan, CEO of Staffingly, Inc.

Written By

Dan Nandan
Founder and CEO, Staffingly, Inc. · Piscataway, NJ

Dan Nandan has spent 25+ years in IT consulting and healthcare BPO, was among the first in the US to build an RPO/BPO delivery network overseas, and has been featured in Computerworld. He runs the operations and the dedicated virtual teams behind the clearinghouse, enrollment, and payment workflows on this page.

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Optum, Optum360, Optum Pay, and Optum Intelligent EDI are trademarks of Optum, Inc. Staffingly, Inc. is an independent outsourcing provider and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Optum or UnitedHealth Group. Staffingly works inside client-owned accounts under client-granted access.