Walmart said Ochsner Health System will be the 12th healthcare provider in its Center of Excellence program for joint replacement surgeries for its workers.
Amazon.com’s plans to revolutionize healthcare are starting to come into focus. It should come as no surprise that the Seattle ecommerce giant plans to upend this sector, too.
Amazon’s brick-and-mortar rival Walmart is expanding a specialized health benefit program for workers and launching accountable care plans across the U.S.
Walmart and Ochsner Health Network in New Orleans are offering a new “accountable care plan” to employees that could be a national model to reducing costs and improving quality of care to the retailer’s U.S. employees.
Saddled with one of the costliest and least performing healthcare systems in the world, the U.S. should embrace the oncoming wave of healthcare technology innovation and watch the experiments with alternatives among startups and bellwether firms alike.
Employer health costs are nearing $15,000 per worker as corporate America looks to disruptors from outside the health industry like Amazon for help, a new National Business Group on Health employer survey shows.
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