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The 2024 AHA Environmental Scan details data and trends that have implications for the health care field for the coming year and beyond. The Scan will help your staff, leadership and board strategize and plan for the future.
The 2024 AHA Environmental Scan details data and trends that have implications for the health care field for the coming year and beyond. The Scan will help your staff, leadership and board strategize and plan for the future.
CVS Health announced last week that it now will provide in-network primary care for Aetna members in select markets through its MinuteClinics.
In 2024, retail health care faced significant disruption as industry giants like Walgreens, CVS and Walmart reevaluated their health care strategies in response to rising operational costs, reimbursement challenges and shifting market conditions.
Walgreens, CVS Health, and Walmart have invested billions of dollars in providing primary care and health and wellness services. By the end of Q2 2024, it is apparent that the great experiment is crumbling.
Amazon’s primary care subsidiary One Medical will lose its long-standing contract with Google at year-end. Google’s roughly 180,000 employees who received discounted medical care under the contract, accounted for about 10% of One Medical’s revenue in 2020.
Humana’s CenterWell will be leasing space to open 23 senior-focused primary care clinics outside former Walmart health clinics just three months after Walmart announced it was closing its 51 Walmart Health centers in five states and exiting its telehealth business.
The recently released third installment of the 2024 National Consumer Survey Series from Jarrard Inc., a Chartis Company, explores what leads patients to choose providers, how patients want to access care and what they want in their relationship with providers.
Walmart’s announcement last week that it will close its 51 health centers in five states and exit virtual care services stunned many observers.