Fierce Healthcare September 15, 2022
Heather Landi

CVS, Walgreens and Amazon are ramping up their focus on in-home medical services and primary care and it will cause major disruptions for more traditional brick-and-mortar providers, industry experts say.

Major retailers, including Walmart, are extending their reach deeper into the care continuum and it has major implications for how and where care is delivered and paid for, and by whom.

Earlier this month, drugstore giant CVS announced it would acquire home healthcare company Signify Health for $8 billion, a company sought after by many healthcare and retail companies.

“It’s sort of like these companies have been sort of poking around the edges to see what might work and we’re finally starting to break through,”...

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