Optum Care Network of Ohio Adds Constance Beutel, MBA, RD, LD

May 12, 2021

Optum Care Network of Ohio, the independent physician association that launched in partnership with Unity Health Network in 2020, has announced the addition of Constance Beutel, MBA, RD, LD, in the role of Director of Medical Management.

As the Director of Medical Management, Beutel is responsible for planning, assessing, monitoring and improving Optum Care Network of Ohio providers’ clinical quality and implementing clinical initiatives within the provider practices and to ensure all efforts to improve the quality of health services for the network meet evidence based standard of care. In addition, she will support ongoing operations to include delegation of claims management, implement needed clinical tools and resources, expand geographically and educate providers on risk-based initiatives.

Beutel has extensive experience in care management, financial and strategic planning, contract negotiation and clinical operations management. Most recently, she served as the Director of Hospital Operations of OB Hospitalist Group, a national provider group dedicated to women's healthcare.   

Optum Care Network of Ohio, in collaboration with Optum Care, a nationwide family of more than 60,000 dedicated physicians working together, is building a collaborative, connected network of community-based primary care and specialty providers throughout Ohio that deliver the highest care that is affordable for patients and profitable to practices. Optum Care Network of Ohio offers physicians the opportunity to advance their futures, providing the ability to achieve the quadruple aim of higher quality, patient satisfaction, physician satisfaction and lower costs of care.