Tag Archives: Walmart

Sam’s Club Accelerating Implementation of Healthcare Strategy

The Care Accelerator launched last year which was only the beginning of Sam’s Club’s increased involvement in health care

Capital Rx Expands Transparency Model to Specialty and Mail Prescriptions

Capital Rx works to increase cost transparency and consistency for its clients by using the government-maintained National Average Drug Acquisition Cost database, which aims to provide accurate, upfront costs of drugs across pharmacies to health plans

Amedisys Strengthens Hospice Market Leadership

Amedisys, a market-leading provider of home health, hospice and personal care plans to continue its acquisition growth strategy by acquiring AseraCare Hospice for $235 million. This is another step in the company’s goal of shifting individuals from one in-house setting to the next over time. Amedisys will operate, once the AseraCare acquisition is complete, 190 […]

Walmart Health Continues Expansion into Primary Care

Walmart Health centers will help the company learn to design the ideal model to provide customers with better and unique solutions for their everyday healthcare needs

Walmart Health Focuses on Patient Care

Walmart Health, is an expansion of the clinics in response to CVS Health’s HealthHUB and Walgreens’ partnerships

Walmart Slashes Pharmacist Part — Smart?

Whatever the diminished share of Walmart’s health workforce — and make no mistake, Walmart shedding 40% of its senior pharmacists creates a big wave in the labor pool for that profession —  this news is the opening page of the latest in an ongoing series of “who knew health care could be so hard?” chapters in the story of the retailer’s zigzagging health strategy.

Employers Use of Copay Accumulator Programs is Growing

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Walmart and Home Depot, two of the top 10 U.S. employers, are using copay accumulator programs