amedisys shares jumped nearly 15 on monday after the healthcareservices provider received an unsolicited 326 billion takeover proposal from unitedhealth groups optum healthservices arm optum said it is offering 100 a share in cash for amedisys in a bid that could scuttle a prior agreement by option care health to acquire amedisys in an allstock transaction option care in early may said it would issue 30213 shares worth 9907 when the deal was announced for each share of amedisys but shares of option care have fallen since then bringing the value of the transaction to 8629 a share at the close of trading friday optums offer meanwhile represents a 26 premium to fridays closing price of 7947 for amedisys and a 27 premium to the baton rouge la companys closing price of 7863 on may 3 before the option care deal was announced amedisys said its board determined that the optum proposal could reasonably be expected to result in an superior deal under the terms of its agreement with option care and that it has begun exploratory talks with its new suitor optum said its proposal has no financing contingency and that it is confident it can secure regulatory approval for a deal option care for its part said its planned union with amedisys offers a high degree of certainty in obtaining regulatory clearance due to the complementary nature of their businesses and that the deal would allow shareholders of both companies to participate in the upside of the combined organization shares of amedisys were recently up nearly 15 to 9109 in early trading monday while shares of option care tacked on 75 to 3069 and shares of unitedhealth edged up 01 to 49982