Healthcare IT News December 16, 2020
Kat Jercich

The company has declined to comment on Business Insider’s report that it will seek to expand the app-based Amazon Care beyond its own employees.

Business Insider reported this week that Amazon is planning to extend its app-based health service beyond its own employees, to workers at other companies.

According to the outlet, who spoke with five anonymous sources on the matter, the retail behemoth plans to sell its Amazon Care health service to other large companies, “bypassing health plans and brokers.”

An Amazon representative told Healthcare IT News that the company does not comment on rumor or speculation.

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