Becker's Healthcare November 13, 2023
CommonSpirit Health’s Virginia Mason Franciscan Health and Amazon’s One Medical have inked a deal to allow CommonSpirit’s specialists to provide care to Amazon’s primary care patients, according to a Nov. 9 release from the health system.
Here are five things ASCs need to know:
1. Virginia Mason will be One Medical’s referral partner for eight clinics and will give members in the Seattle area access to more than 2,000 specialists from the hospital.
2. Amazon became a new force in the push to employ physicians when it purchased One Medical in February for $3.9 billion. The acquisition gave Amazon access to more than 200 brick-and-mortar physicians offices and around 815,000 One Medical members.
3. One Medical offers unlimited...