Monitor Mondays

Giant healthcare insurer Optum has been in the news this week, and the news isn’t particularly favorable.The results of a study published last week by Science revealed what researchers identified as a "significant racial bias" in Optum’s algorithm, which reportedly undervalues the healthcare needs of black patients. Although Science didn’t mention Optum by name, other news organizations have confirmed that it was, indeed, Optum.Reporting on this developing story during this edition of Monitor Mondays is RACmonitor investigative reporter and New York attorney Edward Roche, director of business intelligence for Barraclough New York LLC.Other segments to be featured on the broadcast include the following:RAC Report: Healthcare attorney Knicole Emanuel reports on the status of the Medicaid lawsuit in which more than two dozen Virginia behavioral healthcare providers had their managed care contracts terminated by six managed care organizations (MCOs). Emanuel, a member of the RACmonitor editorial board,