Healthcare Finance News September 8, 2022
The collaboration will start in 2023 with 15 Walmart Health locations in Florida and Georgia, and will expand into new geographies over time.
Walmart and UnitedHealth Group, along with UHG subsidiary Optum, are beginning a 10-year collaboration the companies describe as “wide-ranging,” and intend to leverage their combined expertise to improve health outcomes and the patient experience.
The collaboration will start in 2023 with 15 Walmart Health locations in Florida and Georgia, and will expand into new geographies over time. Ultimately the companies expect to serve hundreds of thousands of seniors and Medicare beneficiaries in value-based arrangements through multiple Medicare Advantage plans.
Optum will lend Walmart Health clinicians access to its analytics and decision support tools to deliver what they...