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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

found himself swept up in the same current so many newly trained family physicians are in upon graduating from residency: employed by the health system where he previously tr | There is no single solution to this primary care shortage. Charles Jantzen, M.D.,

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JULY 1, 2024

Digital primary care startup K Health raised $50 million in an equity funding round to build out its AI-powered medical services and fuel its growth, the company announced Monday.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

New Jersey-based Hackensack Meridian Health is teaming up with K Health to launch a new 24/7 virtual primary care service to provide easier access to the health system's clinicians. |

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

The academic medical giant is the latest health system to notch a deal with One Medical, defraying the cost of expansion for the primary care chain while creating a valuable source of referrals for the hospital.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

In a bid to ease access challenges, CVS Health will offer in-network primary care to Aetna members in certain markets through its MinuteClinics. | In a bid to ease access challenges, CVS Health will offer in-network primary care to Aetna members in certain markets through its MinuteClinics.

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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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MARCH 22, 2024

Walgreens-owned VillageMD sold 11 primary care clinics in Rhode Island to Boston-based Arches Medical Partners. Walgreens-owned VillageMD sold 11 primary care clinics in Rhode Island to Boston-based Arches Medical Partners.

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APRIL 15, 2024

Elevance Health is teaming up with private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its latest bid to expand access to advanced primary care. Elevance Health is teaming up with private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its latest bid to expand access to advanced primary care.

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MAY 15, 2024

Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Bill Cassidy want to reform how primary care providers get paid through Medicare, and they also want to hear from the healthcare industry about the best way to do it.

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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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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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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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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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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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JULY 18, 2024

Intermountain Health and NeuroFlow have teamed up to bring behavioral health screening and analytics to primary care patients in Colorado. NeuroFlow will integrate behavioral health analytics into care workflows and engage patients with relevant digital resources and interventions.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Just three years ago, primary care was a hot category with major players making sizeable investments to build out healthcare businesses. Forward, with its focus on technology and AI-enabled CarePods, was “ahead of its time,” founder Adrian Aoun said on the More or Less from the Morins and the Lessins podcast.

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JUNE 21, 2024

The time has come to recognize the power of primary care to lead transformation of the U.S. There is an old saying that if you do not make time for your wellness, you will be forced to make time for your illness. | healthcare system.

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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

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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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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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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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Nearly 300 primary care doctors at Mass General Brigham (MGB) have petitioned to unionize. | The group, if approved, would join the Doctors Council, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union representing attending physicians nationwide.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 29, 2024

As artificial intelligence tools make their way into hospitals and doctor's offices, Elation Health saw a big opportunity to leverage its expertise in building clinical-first tech to roll out AI pu | As artificial intelligence tools make their way into hospitals and doctor's offices, Elation Health saw a big opportunity to leverage its expertise (..)

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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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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

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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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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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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MAY 27, 2022

CVS on Thursday announced the launch of its new CVS Health Virtual Primary Care service. CVS Health Virtual Primary Care will feature a member-selected physician-led Care Team – comprising, for example, nurse practitioners, RNs or licensed vocational nurses – who can be accessed through the platform.

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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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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

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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AUGUST 28, 2024

To lower costs of specialty medications, Reliance Rx said it has joined the Waltz Connect marketplace while Elation Health, an electronic health records vendor focused on primary care, launched ambient note-taking as a first step in redesigning a better experience for doctors.

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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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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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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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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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