{"id":14852,"date":"2019-12-27T09:42:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T14:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14852"},"modified":"2019-12-27T09:42:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T14:42:04","slug":"cvs-humana-walgreens-and-others-now-operate-hundreds-of-primary-care-clinics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14852","title":{"rendered":"CVS, Humana, Walgreens and others now operate hundreds of primary care clinics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of clinics that market themselves as primary care providers or provide a majority of primary care services are not run by your typical entity.\u00a0 Health insurers and retail pharmacies are now operating hundreds of primary care clinics in the U.S.\u00a0 Although roughly five percent of the $3 trillion spent on health care each year in U.S. is incurred in the primary care environment, a good or bad decision will determine what the next 95 percent looks like. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/health-insurers-and-retail-pharmacies-are-making-a-play-for-primary-care-2019-12-24\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Medical-exam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7838\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Medical-exam-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Medical-exam-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Medical-exam.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of clinics that market themselves as primary care providers or provide a majority of primary care services are not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-redesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14853,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14852\/revisions\/14853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}