Forbes July 30, 2019
Bruce Japsen

Humana and Walgreens Boots Alliance say they are are expanding a joint venture developing senior health clinics to more locations.

The two began a test in the Kansas City market where a pilot of two sites inside drugstores has been underway for about a year. On Tuesday, Walgreens and Humana said they will open “three additional Partners in Primary Care centers inside Walgreens stores – two in the Kansas City area and another in Anderson, South Carolina.”

The effort is designed in part to keep people out of the more expensive hospital setting and make sure Medicare patients have their care more closely monitored by Walgreens pharmacists and physicians in Humana’s health plan networks. The two companies think they can...

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