IBM – aka ‘Big Blue’ – and Denver-based credit union service CULedger, are to collaborate to develop new blockchain-based services for credit unions that globally have some 260 million members and over $1.7 trillion in assets. Improving customer satisf…
The number of U.S. urgent care centers rose 8% to 8,774 last year from 8,125 in 2017, a new report from the Urgent Care Association shows.
Walmart said Ochsner Health System will be the 12th healthcare provider in its Center of Excellence program for joint replacement surgeries for its workers.
Ending a dispute over prices, CVS Health said Walmart will continue to use its Caremark pharmacy benefit management (PBM) commercial and managed Medicaid retail pharmacy networks as part of a new multiyear agreement.
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.
CVS Health and Sharecare have launched a “digital pharmacy savings card” to help the uninsured and those with high deductibles get access to discounts on prescriptions medicines.
Hospitals and health systems face further deterioration of operating profits as new competitors emerge like CVS Health, Amazon, and other “non-traditional entrants” into the healthcare business, Fitch Ratings says in a new report.
Humana’s relationships with Walgreens Boots Alliance and Walmart to establish closer ties with national retail healthcare providers is going well, Humana CEO Bruce Broussard said.
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.
Recent months have seen a surge in opioid-related lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies and individual leadership of pharma, as well as retail pharmacies and dispensaries. Interestingly, they are being filed by cities, counties, state’s attorneys g…
