Becker's Healthcare October 5, 2023
Unlike other healthcare disruptors, Walmart isn’t partnering with hospitals and health systems. At least not yet.
Walmart Health, which has more than 45 healthcare centers in five states, is still strategizing how it will handle specialty care referrals, according to Claude Pirtle, MD, its inaugural chief medical informatics officer. The clinics offer primary, dental and behavioral care.
“It’s in discussions,” Dr. Pirtle told Becker’s. “People are going to need a cardiologist, they’re going to need a neurologist, they’re going to need that type of care. So we’re mapping that out. I think we’ll know in the next number of months. We’re thinking about it,...
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