PYMNTS.com June 29, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic and the related U.S. recession have combined to make already-soaring healthcare costs even more of a crisis. But an increasing number of players are wondering if lowering healthcare costs might be less complicated than it seems. They aim to compete on price and pressure the existing, inefficiently expensive system to cut costs.

Two big innovations:

Walmart’s Network Of Healthcare Clinics

Walmart is looking to take its expertise at building retail supercenters and driving down costs and apply that to healthcare.

The retail giant has been slowly wading into healthcare services, operating about two dozen low-cost clinics in Georgia, South Carolina and Texas. This month, the company opened its latest clinics in Loganville, Ga., and Springdale,...

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