Walmart Health eyes Medicare Advantage business with planned expansion

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Walmart Health is eyeing more Medicare Advantage business as it prepares to nearly double the footprint of its in-store clinics.

, a provider which specifically focuses on Medicare populations. Other competitors in the space include Walgreens, Dollar General and Albertson's."Everybody is doing it their own way. Some are doing it through major acquisitions," Carmouche said. "We think the advantage for us is the stores ... the ability to interact with [patients] not just in a traditional health care encounter, but when they are at the pharmacy or just shopping.

It's also making changes made after feedback from patients, such as integrating Epic's electronic health record system, scaling down to about 6,000 square feet per center from initial layouts of more than 10,000 feet and changing the layout of the center to have patients spend less time in the waiting room."It's really are we building a model that is differentiated, that people understand, is hopefully better than traditional health care has delivered for them.

 

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