Optum, a Southfield-based health services technology subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), said today it will hire about 75 employees over the next eight months with plans for a total of up to 120 in three years.
Gov. Rick Snyder made the announcement with UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley.
“Michigan’s business environment and exceptional and growing technology workforce make the state a natural partner for UnitedHealth Group in our efforts to make the health care system work better for everyone,” said Hemsley in a statement.
Snyder said the new UnitedHealth jobs will help Michigan compete in the “modern innovation economy.”
The new jobs will be in software development, Internet design and program management. They will help customers and providers access health care products and services through digital and mobile technologies.
By 2017, Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth will have about 700 employees in Michigan to serve 685,000 people in its various health plans. UnitedHealth, the largest nonprofit health insurer with 38 million covered lives, employs 50,000 worldwide.
