Forbes January 9, 2020
Bruce Japsen

Walgreens Boots Alliance sees the physician inside or attached to its drugstores as key to the company’s long-term survival as a community healthcare provider.

Though two partnerships Walgreens has to strengthen the drugstore chain’s relationships with physicians remain in testing stages, company executives say they are performing well and a future expansion could be around the corner. Walgreens provided an update on its physician partnerships Wednesday during its fiscal 2020 first quarter earnings call after inquiries from analysts who in the past have wondered when these partnerships are going to start contributing financial results to the company.

One relationship involves the big health insurer Humana and its Partners in Primary Care Centers inside two Walgreens stores in the Kansas City...

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