Alaina Benton

Senior Director Payor Contracting at Optum

Alaina Benton brings extensive experience in payor contracting and provider relations, having served as Senior Director and Director of Payor Contracting at Optum from April 2021 to March 2025, where responsibilities included contract management and effective communication. Prior roles at UnitedHealthcare, including Senior Provider Relations Advocate, Provider Relations Advocate, and Provider Relations Representative from May 2013 to June 2017, focused on contracting and network management. Alaina is pursuing a Bachelor of Business Administration with a concentration in Management from Strayer University, expected to graduate in December 2024, and holds an Associate Degree in General Education from Cypress Community College.

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Optum is a health services and innovation company on a mission to help people live healthier lives and to help make the health system work better for everyone. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, is powering modern health care by connecting and serving the whole health system across 150 countries. We combine cutting-edge technology, the world’s largest health care database and vast expertise to improve health care delivery, quality and efficiency. We are revolutionizing health care that serves more than 100,000 physicians, practices and other health care facilities, as well as 127 million individual consumers.


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