Managed Healthcare Executive January 14, 2022
Deborah Abrams Kaplan

The company is expanding the reach of Amazon Care and partnering with health systems and senior living companies to support at-home care.

Amazon is poised to continue its 2022 expansion in more than just e-commerce sales. It’s about to become the largest U.S. carrier for delivery services. Yes, larger than the U.S. Postal Service, UPS and FedEx. That may sound unrelated to healthcare, but it really isn’t. That infrastructure is helping Amazon deliver their own branded PCR COVID-19 tests. It’s helping them deliver pharmaceuticals through PillPack. And it may help them become an even bigger player in the home health arena.

With Amazon, “their movement is large, but it’s also really long,” says Robin Gaster, a visiting scholar at George...

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