Patients face uncertainty as Optum shuts down dozens of medical offices by December Erin Vogt Published: November 5, 2025 Optum medical offices in Belleville are among dozens closing in NJ (Google Maps)

🏥 Offices to close: Optum shuts down dozens of medical offices in New Jersey.

💼 Workforce cuts: Primary care, pediatrics, and specialty services like gastroenterology.

🗓️ Effective Dec. 1: Closures and service cancellations are effective after November.

Patients and their doctors are both feeling blindsided as a health provider has announced plans to shut down medical offices around New Jersey, effective at the end of this month.

Optum, a health provider owned by UnitedHealth, will no longer offer eight specialty services in New Jersey and is closing those offices as of Dec.

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