Walmart expands standalone health center model
(Ayla Ellison for Becker’s Hospital Review) Walmart has moved deeper into the primary care market by opening its second freestanding
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Health Care Redesign
‘Concierge’ Medicine Gets More Affordable, But Is Still Not Widespread
(By Selena Simmons-Duffin) Some people pay $200 a month on the golf course or a fancy cable TV package, says
Read MoreMore Medicare Advantage Plans offering palliative care
A Duke University report indicates a rising number of Medicare Advantage plans (61) are offering home-based palliative care as a
Read MoreReduce Health Costs By Nurturing The Sickest? A Much-Touted Idea Disappoints
(By Dan Gorenstein and Leslie Walker for Kaiser Health News) Improving health and lowering costs for the sickest and most
Read MoreCare Ecosystem improving the quality of life of Alzheimer’s patients
With the greater awareness in the U.S. and the world about the increasing number of people with Alzheimer’s disease and
Read More3 drug pricing policy experiments to watch in 2020
(By Nicholas Florko for STAT) WASHINGTON — Politicians spent the better part of 2019 bickering over the best way to
Read MoreAmazon’s PillPack seeking to win over new insurers in 2020
(By Alia Paavola for Becker’s Hospital Review) Amazon is quietly attempting to get more big named insurers to integrate its
Read MoreNew York to launch healthcare price comparison site
(By Emily Rappleye for Becker’s Hospital Review) New York plans to develop a consumer-friendly healthcare price comparison website in 2020,
Read MoreCVS, Humana, Walgreens and others now operate hundreds of primary care clinics
Hundreds of clinics that market themselves as primary care providers or provide a majority of primary care services are not
Read MoreThe proposed Medicare changes could spell relief for millions of enrollees.
There are coverage gaps in the Medicare program that leave countless enrollees responsible for extensive out-of-pocket costs; however, that may
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