VP-level executives and above were assessed confidentially by the HR department in preparation for the next round of workforce reductions. According to a credible source, the evaluation considered factors such as salary ranges, employee engagement results, documented HR complaints about leadership behavior, and potential organizational liability. Multiple lawsuits tied to leadership actions have already been filed, creating significant financial and reputational risk for the company.
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Get rid of WellMed already, be done with that financial disaster of a failed company.
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I am so sorry to hear you all are going through layoffs. I know how hard that can be. I am a recruiter with Conviva and CenterWell and we do have clinical openings across Texas as well as the US. Please feel free to email me or my sourcer and we can do our best to get you connected with recruiters with openings in your area.
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Laid off here in South TX. I documented a co-workers lazy work and fraudulent record keeping. But management didn't care as long as someone was going in to correct it or covering it. Now they are stuck with this employee.
10/30/25 layoff confirmed wellmed/optum
The north texas out patient team was laid off around this morning. This impacted around 60 people, care advocates, nurses, lvns and management.
More layoffs coming 10/31 and in February per management.
It’s a shame, corporate is in trouble. So far, 10 people just at our location where I go today. UHC seems to be making desperate moves. Plus the 5.5% reimbursement rate is not Going to help for 2026 as the inflation rate projected for healthcare is 9.1%. Blindly letting go staff with no real strategic goal will result in operation in efficiencies and in loss quality and customer care. UHG took a big hit yesterday, and I don’t think this restructure is being priced into the market.
@61j haven’t seen anything he’s done help or improve Wellmed. Just spend
@61e I’m thinking your one of his gurus he’s so worried about his image and what he’s done but has shown no improvement in anything he has touched for WellMed. All of his department are losing money left and right.
@61f Nope! I’m not even part of South Region but in Finance and have heard him push back on the rif logic several times in wider discussions. He has his issues like many of the leaders there, but calling him an “id--t” is FAR from accurate, he’s actually one of the smarter ones there with lots of non-WellMed experience that is logical.
@61e funny but all his departments are getting ax’d. What sense do you make. He’s a bullsh-tter and an a-s kisser. He won’t be around much longer Plus the old leadership were his friends and brought him in.
@618 That is the whole point…they ARE CHANGING the business model pretty dramatically and quickly. It will still be Medicare Advantage primarily but will be done much more efficiently with a lot less administrative and frankly non-value-added corporate areas. Those types of teams were fine when the company was making $1Billion a year but now when it was LOSING $300 million a year they simply have to go. The company has to cut back to a profitable core business and then build back in 2027 and on.
@61e we found Shan’s anonymous account
@617 You sound like someone who is probably an old “legacy” WellMed person who doesn’t understand how large healthcare companies need to be run. Shan actually does and has run large hospital networks for years successfully from what everyone has seen. He probably had to hold you or your team accountable for something and you didn’t like it and now disparage him on the internet anonymously. He actually is one of the good leaders who has railed against a lot of the RIF logic in meetings saying all it does is push patients to more expensive healthcare options like the ER…just moves medical cost from managed capitation to exponentially more expensive. You probably didn’t know that.
@5w5 That sort of cultural attitude at WellMed is part of the pervasive problem…The WellMed owners sold the company (80% initially) to Optum in 2011…WellMed has been an Optum company for almost 15 years but still thinks it is it’s own thing. Optum/OptumHealth left it alone when it could make $1Billion a year but when it started tanking due to poor/indecisive/bad senior leadership they had to step in and clean house and get real leaders in place who understand how to run a multi-state multi-billion dollar company. These old leadership never adapted to the new world of V.28 despite HUGE financial indicators that were plain as day.
@604 The elimination of the Houston clinic operations (merge/join with Kelsey Seybold) is a long time coming…The Houston clinics have been struggling and not having positive rev generation for years.
@603 As long as they continue with the current business model, it is not going to go well. WellMed put all of its eggs in the Medicare basket. The leadership also responds to changes in revenue by harassing doctors into seeing patients more often, adding diagnoses that increase reimbursements. Doctors spend no less than three hours per week in meetings.
@615 yep Shan is an id--t and the few departments he has left will be gone soon. He should’ve been gone first.
@607 They built two 6 story towers in San Antonio.
@5vw San Antonio has already experienced lay offs. Endo, neurology and imaging are gone. The leadership which caused this mess is still there.
@608 yes it is, just recently acquired.
@605 is Kelsey Seabold an Optum company
@606 that’s wild, especially considering how much money they spent renovating so many clinics in the Houston market.
@605 merging with KS
@604 are they fully closing in Houston or merging with Kelsey Seybold?
Houston market closed
@600 there are still November an December downsizing dates planned so more will be coming. The goal is to cut out non-revenue generating/supporting areas and shrink backbone to a profitable core business snd then grown in 2027. We should have done this a couple years ago but the previous senior leadership was inattentive, indecisive and ineffective. They need most of the blame here
I don’t believe that today is the last rif of the year there are more to come
What we are seeing is the result is the total indecisiveness and inaction taken by the former CEO, CFO and President of the medical group. The dire financial indicators were plain to see for a long time and these senior leaders refused to take real action by strategically adjusting the company. Instead they took very minor and ineffective actions around risk and quality and some basic market consolidation. Nothing to really address the major issues around so many non-revenue generating functions lead by poor leaders for years. They could get away with it when WellMed was generating $1billion a year but when we went to losing over $300 million a year they should have seen they couldn’t run it like they were. But they refused to change what they had been doing for over 20 years. WellMed went from being the biggest revenue source for Optum health to dragging it down in 2 years. Catastrophic and they did little to adjust, even when many on the wider team were pushing for change that would allow for people to post out to other roles in the wider Optum and UHG areas. Now this change all has to occur in a few months and it is costing many good employees their jobs. Blame those former senior leaders and their refusal to take action even when others were pushing them to do so. They all got HUGE lucrative exit agreements and severance amounts while many now are scrambling to get jobs to pay bills and take care of their families. It is disgraceful.
Old Wellmed corporate didn’t get hit hard enough. There are still plenty of departments that are dragging the company down when these corporate leaders are just su-king the system and have no clue what they’re doing. There are still too many leaders and not enough, hard-working employees, and they rif the wrong people
Optum Corporate got hit hard.
@5ze If the governors of those states are notified, they will investigate. I'm not sure it was smart of the company to pick those states to do 100% offshore.
Texas and Florida, payment compliance specialists responsible for investigating and resolving all types of claim aberrancies, recovery and resolution for health plans and government entities, including IT and business analysis, will offshore to India and Ireland.
Nonsense
@5x8 employed clinics
@5x6 contracted or clinic?
@5x6 wellmed clinic, expecting layoffs :(
@5x5 Houston, Tx
@5x4 what location ?
@5vs yes at our location, eveyone has received invites for a meeting on 10/30
@5w4 face to face ornTEAMS meetings?