Employee Benefit Advisor October 22, 2019
Walmart is experimenting with new benefits designed to help make healthcare more accessible to its employees.
Starting early next year, select Walmart locations will have access to a new platform that pairs employees with a local doctor. Employees in Colorado, Wisconsin and Minnesota will have access to expanded telehealth benefits that cost $4 per appointment. Locations in North Carolina and South Carolina will be testing a healthcare concierge service that helps with billing and appointments. All of the programs will roll out the beginning of next year.
“If we get this right, we can raise the tide for all healthcare,” says Lisa Woods, Walmart’s senior director of U.S. benefits.
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