Fierce Healthcare October 3, 2019
Retail giant Walmart—the largest employer in the U.S.—is looking to use more of its muscle in the healthcare space.
Walmart announced Thursday it’s piloting several new initiatives in the health benefits it offers to workers, aiming to steer employees to high-quality providers and reduce unneeded costs.
The company spotlighted five new programs for its 2020 benefits, saying it intends to use its massive size to make healthcare easier for its employees to navigate. The new options build on the retailer’s existing centers of excellence programs, which proved popular with workers, said Lisa Woods, Walmart’s senior director of U.S. benefits, in a statement.
“Associates came back saying, ‘I didn’t know healthcare could look like this,’” Woods said. “They asked us...
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