Healthcare It News

APRIL 15, 2024

Primary care physicians are the heart of healthcare delivery in the United States. Virtual primary care, experts say, can address challenges in traditional care by filling existing care gaps and offering various benefits to healthcare organizations, providers and patients.

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 16, 2024

The payer has inked a deal with Clayton, Dubilier and Rice to join their primary care assets as Elevance looks to catch up with peers like UnitedHealth and CVS in care delivery.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 30, 2023

Humana's senior-focused primary care business, CenterWell, is bringing its services into patients' homes. Humana's senior-focused primary care business, CenterWell, is bringing its services into patients' homes.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 12, 2024

ORLANDO – The future of primary care and how retailers are disrupting the traditional experience was the focus of a fireside chat between Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips, chief physician executive at Press Ganey and Sashi Moodley, chief medical officer at Walgreens. Phillips, former president of Clinical Care for Providence St.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Key Senate panels have reached a bipartisan deal on a bill that aims to bolster primary care. | The package would invest more than $26 billion into primary care programs as well as initiatives to grow the healthcare workforce.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 10, 2023

LAS VEGAS — The team at retail giant Walmart didn't realize how fortuitous a virtual primary care pilot would prove to be when it launched in January of 2020. | LAS VEGAS — The team at retail giant Walmart didn't realize how fortuitous a virtual primary care pilot would prove to be when it launched in January of 2020.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 29, 2023

Primary care doctors have particularly benefited from CMS coding tweaks in 2021, according to a new survey. The gains could help narrow the compensation gap between primary care physicians and other specialties.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Walgreens is closing its remaining VillageMD primary care clinics in Florida. | The announcement does not come as a total surprise, as Walgreens first disclosed its plans to close 60 underperforming VillageMD clinics and exit five markets last fall.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 25, 2024

As Amazon builds out its healthcare business and expands its reach into hybrid primary care, pharmacy operations and virtual care, there are promising opportunities to integrate these services to o | A year after its big-ticket primary care acquisition, Amazon Pharmacy is piloting a program to provide pharmacy consultations to One Medical providers (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Primary care player Forward unveiled this week what it has been quietly working on the past two years—self-serve CarePods that use artificial intelligence to screen and diagnose health conditions.<

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Healthcare It News

MAY 31, 2023

The participating primary care practices, all part of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s clinical research network, were either general, family, ambulatory internal medicine, preventive medicine or geriatric medicine practices. They self-identified their point of maturation.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Despite a recent leadership shakeup and sub-par third quarter financial results, Walgreens’ executives maintain that its transformation from a retail store to a full-blown healthcare company is the | Walgreens execs gave reporters a peek behind the curtain at its Chicago primary care office and micro-fulfillment center.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The role of primary care physician has been evolving – along with our understanding of medicine and the social drivers of whole health. From reactive to proactive, and symptom-focused to holistic, primary care physicians are engaging more deeply with patients in four key ways.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Kroger is piloting value-based primary care clinics as it joins a growing list of retailers looking to cash in on the booming sector of senior-focused medical care.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Retail giant Walmart is reportedly exploring buying a majority stake in primary care clinic operator ChenMed to expand its healthcare business. Retail giant Walmart is reportedly exploring buying a majority stake in primary care clinic operator ChenMed to expand its healthcare business.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 28, 2024

While there are common struggles for the primary care model in many wealthy countries, the U.S. is a particularly poor performer with overburdened physicians and unsatisfactory patient care in general.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As new primary care models, including retail health clinics, continue to scale, the national supply of clinical providers will become even more constrained. | As new primary care models, including retail health clinics, continue to scale, the national supply of clinical providers will become even more constrained.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

When Florida Blue announced this week that it’s partnering with Sanitas Medical Center in Jacksonville to deliver primary care, officials with the company considered it in keeping with a healthcare | Among the primary care services to be offered at Sanitas Medical Center in Jacksonville are onsite pharmacy dispensing, chronic condition management, (..)

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 2, 2023

Primary care advocates Ann Greiner and Shawn Martin argue the U.S. needs to turn around decades of underinvestment in its primary care chassis to lower costs and improve care quality.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 20, 2023

. | Patients are looking for easier access to medical services and more convenience and this is opening big opportunities for insurers, retailers, tech companies and nontraditional players to muscle their way into primary care.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 13, 2022

Many healthcare consumers today are disconnecting from traditional primary care, since the current experience is not meeting consumers' expectations, some industry observers say. When consumers disengage, the promise of traditional primary care cannot be realized. You are big on reimagining primary care.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 9, 2023

The Making Care Primary Model, which will begin next summer in eight states, aims to strengthen primary care delivery, particularly for safety net and small or independent organizations.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Wellvana, a value-based care enabler, is joining forces with AdventHealth as an exclusive partner to its primary care network in Florida. | AdventHealth is transitioning its entire primary care network in the state to value-based care for Medicare and Medicare Advantage patients.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 8, 2023

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aims to advance value-based primary care, especially in rural areas and among underserved populations, with a new pilot project. |

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

To meet the demand for primary care services, Summer Health rolled out a new on-demand text message service for parents to connect with pediatricians, sleep coaches and lactation experts. Summer Health launched a year ago as a text-based service for parents to get answers to urgent needs from pediatricians.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Everside Health and Marathon Health announced the closing of their merger to enhance access to advanced primary care in a value-based model. | The two companies serve employer and union-sponsored clients with primary care, mental health, occupational health, musculoskeletal and pharmacy services.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The primary care chain will serve as a virtual and in-person primary care provider for companies like Coca-Cola, Boeing and JPMorgan.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 5, 2023

Humana's primary care arm opened its 250th clinic in Dallas on Tuesday, marking another milestone in the insurer's growth in the provider space. Humana's primary care arm opened its 250th clinic in Dallas on Tuesday, marking another milestone in the insurer's growth in the provider space.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 2, 2023

To explore the efficacy of primary care telehealth, a recent Epic Research study examined the frequency of in-person physician visits that followed 18,636,522 primary care telemedicine appointments. They also looked at the differences in the rate of in-person follow-up based on a patient’s insurance coverage.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 19, 2024

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the ACO Primary Care Flex Model (ACO PC Flex Model), allowing eligible accountable care organizations to treat people with with | Accountable care organizations are largely supportive of CMS' new primary care model released Tuesday, they wish the agency would broaden its scope (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 8, 2023

primary care will be owned by non-traditional players like Amazon and Walmart. In 2021, Walgreens Boots Alliance acquired VillageMD for $5.2 | By 2030, it is projected that 30% of U.S.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Elation Health has long been known as an electronic health record provider, but the company has set its sights on being an "all-in-one" technology solution for primary care practices.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Jefferson Health has announced the launch of a recent program focused on primary care for Philadelphia’s aging LGBTQ+ community. | Pride at the Jefferson Center for Healthy Aging is said to be the first of its kind, combining clinical care and research efforts to create a primary care clinic for LGBTQ+ older adults.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 28, 2023

Nearly one-third (32%) of people already say they would be comfortable with artificial intelligence leading a primary care appointment, according to a new survey from Outbreaks Near Me – although fewer (25%) would be comfortable with AI-led therapy Twelve percent of adults in the U.S.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Tech-enabled primary care company Cano Health is selling off its senior-focused clinics to Humana's CenterWell in Texas and Nevada, according to an announcement. Tech-enabled primary care company Cano Health is selling off its senior-focused clinics to Humana's CenterWell in Texas and Nevada, according to an announcement.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 2, 2023

acquisition of Oak Street Health to expand primary care footprint hlandi Tue, 05/02/2023 - 09:36 CVS closes $10.6B

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Amazon's One Medical inked a major partnership with Health Transformation Alliance, expanding access to its primary care services to 67 employers and nearly 5 million employees.

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