Healthcare DIVE April 30, 2024
The unexpected closure of Walmart’s 51 health centers and virtual care business highlights the difficulty of providing healthcare at this moment in time.
Walmart is closing its network of health clinics after failing to make them profitable, in a major setback for the retail giant’s push into healthcare.
Walmart Health launched as a one-store pilot in Georgia in 2019, and has since grown to 51 centers in five states, along with a virtual care offering. Yet the network has shown recent signs of trouble: Earlier this month, Walmart decelerated its expansion plans for the centers, which offer inexpensive, fixed-cost medical services like primary and dental care.
Walmart is now closing the clinics entirely due to a challenging reimbursement environment and...
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