{"id":16449,"date":"2020-07-15T13:47:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T17:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16449"},"modified":"2020-07-15T13:48:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T17:48:27","slug":"walmart-has-started-offering-health-plan-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16449","title":{"rendered":"Walmart has started offering health plan options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a local news outlet in Arkansas, Walmart Insurance Services LLC has officially filed to conduct business in the state of Arkansas, but the Walmart Insurance Services LLC is considered a Delaware company.\u00a0 So what does this mean?\u00a0 Walmart has confirmed to CNBC, that they have started offering health plan options, indicating that the new plans would be Medicare plans: \u201cWalmart strives to be a center of wellbeing in the communities we serve, and we have a unique, brand-new opportunity to help millions of people find the best Medicare insurance available.\u201d Although this is not Walmart\u2019s first foray into healthcare, they opened four Walmart Health clinics that provide typical primary care services such as annual checkups or strep tests in addition to counseling, dental and vision healthcare services. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/healthpayerintelligence.com\/news\/walmart-forays-into-medicare-with-walmart-insurance-services-llc\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/health-care.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7804\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/health-care-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/health-care-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/health-care.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>According to a local news outlet in Arkansas, Walmart Insurance Services LLC has officially filed to conduct business in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-redesign","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16449","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=16449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16451,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16449\/revisions\/16451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}