UnitedHealth: Larry Renfro Named CEO of Optum

UnitedHealth Group UNH today announced that Larry C. Renfro has been named chief executive officer of Optum, its health services business platform, effective immediately. Renfro takes over from G. Mike Mikan, who is leaving to lead a private equity fund. Optum is UnitedHealth Group's $27 billion information and technology-enabled health services business platform serving the broad health care marketplace, including care providers, plan sponsors, payers, life sciences companies and consumers. Its business units – OptumInsight, OptumHealth and OptumRx – employ more than 30,000 people worldwide. The CEOs of the three Optum businesses – Dawn Owens, CEO of OptumHealth, Andy Slavitt, CEO of OptumInsight, and Jackie Kosecoff, CEO of OptumRx – will report to Renfro.