Amazon’s recent purchase of OneMedical is not generically about primary care – or even direct primary care. It’s about Medicare. Specifically, Medicare Advantage.
Walmart Health was launched to provide affordable, transparent pricing for key health center services for local customers, regardless of insurance status
Pandion Optimization Alliance (Pandion), a rapidly growing player in the group purchasing organization (GPO) space, announced it will acquire New Source GPO, which has 12,000+ membership base in the Southeast as well as around the country
Health systems are increasingly collaborating with consumer genetic testing companies
Walgreens is strongly focused on creating neighborhood health destinations around a more modern pharmacy
Walmart Health, is an expansion of the clinics in response to CVS Health’s HealthHUB and Walgreens’ partnerships
Health systems are increasingly investing in express care strategies to expand their reach deeper into their communities as well as cut costs. Health systems are seeking to connect with the patient at all levels of care and are creating their own urgent care centers and often affiliating themselves with retail clinics. Urgent care centers can […]
Insurers-Hospitals Face Cost Structure Change Insurance fundamentals (risk) that supersede the ACA are driving changes seen in coverage, and at a more rapid pace each year, resulting from ACA impacts. One of those changes has been a significant increase in the use of alternate sites of care (ASOCs) due to medical policy changes driven by […]