Fierce Healthcare

JULY 1, 2024

Digital primary care startup K Health raised $50 million in an equity funding round to build out its AI-powered medical services and fuel its growth, the company announced Monday.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Two years ago, Bain and Company forecasted ma | Nontraditional providers will account for about one-third of the primary care market in 2030, according to Bain and Company. Payer-owned primary care, population-focused models and advanced primary care providers are all poised for growth.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 15, 2024

Elevance Health is teaming up with private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its latest bid to expand access to advanced primary care. Elevance Health is teaming up with private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its latest bid to expand access to advanced primary care.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 15, 2024

Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Bill Cassidy want to reform how primary care providers get paid through Medicare, and they also want to hear from the healthcare industry about the best way to do it.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 13, 2022

Many healthcare consumers today are disconnecting from traditional primary care, since the current experience is not meeting consumers' expectations, some industry observers say. When consumers disengage, the promise of traditional primary care cannot be realized. You are big on reimagining primary care.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 15, 2024

Primary care physicians are the heart of healthcare delivery in the United States. Virtual primary care, experts say, can address challenges in traditional care by filling existing care gaps and offering various benefits to healthcare organizations, providers and patients.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 10, 2023

LAS VEGAS — The team at retail giant Walmart didn't realize how fortuitous a virtual primary care pilot would prove to be when it launched in January of 2020. | LAS VEGAS — The team at retail giant Walmart didn't realize how fortuitous a virtual primary care pilot would prove to be when it launched in January of 2020.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Key Senate panels have reached a bipartisan deal on a bill that aims to bolster primary care. | The package would invest more than $26 billion into primary care programs as well as initiatives to grow the healthcare workforce.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Academic health system Cleveland Clinic is teaming up with an industry disruptor to expand primary care services in Northeast Ohio. Academic health system Cleveland Clinic is teaming up with an industry disruptor to expand primary care services in Northeast Ohio.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 22, 2024

Walgreens-owned VillageMD sold 11 primary care clinics in Rhode Island to Boston-based Arches Medical Partners. Walgreens-owned VillageMD sold 11 primary care clinics in Rhode Island to Boston-based Arches Medical Partners.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Primary care player Forward unveiled this week what it has been quietly working on the past two years—self-serve CarePods that use artificial intelligence to screen and diagnose health conditions.<

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

faces a critical shortage of primary care physicians, and the labor crunch is projected to get worse. | The company is working with New Mexico-based Presbyterian Healthcare Services to pilot its primary care AI pilot.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

found himself swept up in the same current so many newly trained family physicians are in upon graduating from residency: employed by the health system where he previously tr | There is no single solution to this primary care shortage. Charles Jantzen, M.D.,

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Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Despite broad bipartisan support for telehealth in Washington, the return of restrictions — even nominal ones — threaten the viability of virtual services offered by cash-strapped primary care offices, a new survey finds.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 29, 2023

Primary care doctors have particularly benefited from CMS coding tweaks in 2021, according to a new survey. The gains could help narrow the compensation gap between primary care physicians and other specialties.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

New Jersey-based Hackensack Meridian Health is teaming up with K Health to launch a new 24/7 virtual primary care service to provide easier access to the health system's clinicians. |

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Despite a recent leadership shakeup and sub-par third quarter financial results, Walgreens’ executives maintain that its transformation from a retail store to a full-blown healthcare company is the | Walgreens execs gave reporters a peek behind the curtain at its Chicago primary care office and micro-fulfillment center.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Everyone agrees primary care is crucial to a functioning healthcare ecosystem and to a healthy society. Everyone agrees primary care is crucial, yet it isn't working as well as it should be.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Over the past several years, Humana has made significant strides in growing its senior-focused primary care business, and a new study highlights areas where it's seeing success in this model.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Along with outlining three new store formats — including sites for primary care delivery, a new area for the retail drugstore behemoth — CVS plans to close 900 stores over the next three years as consumer buying patterns change.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Retail giant Walmart is reportedly exploring buying a majority stake in primary care clinic operator ChenMed to expand its healthcare business. Retail giant Walmart is reportedly exploring buying a majority stake in primary care clinic operator ChenMed to expand its healthcare business.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Walgreens is closing its remaining VillageMD primary care clinics in Florida. | The announcement does not come as a total surprise, as Walgreens first disclosed its plans to close 60 underperforming VillageMD clinics and exit five markets last fall.

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 16, 2024

The payer has inked a deal with Clayton, Dubilier and Rice to join their primary care assets as Elevance looks to catch up with peers like UnitedHealth and CVS in care delivery.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Industry Voices—Why primary care is the future of sustainable healthcare in the U.S. Sat, 11/06/2021 - 21:45.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 18, 2024

Intermountain Health and NeuroFlow have teamed up to bring behavioral health screening and analytics to primary care patients in Colorado. NeuroFlow will integrate behavioral health analytics into care workflows and engage patients with relevant digital resources and interventions.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 8, 2023

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aims to advance value-based primary care, especially in rural areas and among underserved populations, with a new pilot project. |

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Kroger is piloting value-based primary care clinics as it joins a growing list of retailers looking to cash in on the booming sector of senior-focused medical care.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 25, 2024

As Amazon builds out its healthcare business and expands its reach into hybrid primary care, pharmacy operations and virtual care, there are promising opportunities to integrate these services to o | A year after its big-ticket primary care acquisition, Amazon Pharmacy is piloting a program to provide pharmacy consultations to One Medical providers (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As new primary care models, including retail health clinics, continue to scale, the national supply of clinical providers will become even more constrained. | As new primary care models, including retail health clinics, continue to scale, the national supply of clinical providers will become even more constrained.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 12, 2024

ORLANDO – The future of primary care and how retailers are disrupting the traditional experience was the focus of a fireside chat between Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips, chief physician executive at Press Ganey and Sashi Moodley, chief medical officer at Walgreens. Phillips, former president of Clinical Care for Providence St.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 2, 2023

acquisition of Oak Street Health to expand primary care footprint hlandi Tue, 05/02/2023 - 09:36 CVS closes $10.6B

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 28, 2023

Nearly one-third (32%) of people already say they would be comfortable with artificial intelligence leading a primary care appointment, according to a new survey from Outbreaks Near Me – although fewer (25%) would be comfortable with AI-led therapy Twelve percent of adults in the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 2, 2023

To explore the efficacy of primary care telehealth, a recent Epic Research study examined the frequency of in-person physician visits that followed 18,636,522 primary care telemedicine appointments. They also looked at the differences in the rate of in-person follow-up based on a patient’s insurance coverage.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 21, 2024

The time has come to recognize the power of primary care to lead transformation of the U.S. There is an old saying that if you do not make time for your wellness, you will be forced to make time for your illness. | healthcare system.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 10, 2023

JPM23: CVS Health still weighing next steps as it plans foray into primary care. Tue, 01/10/2023 - 12:37.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 20, 2023

. | Patients are looking for easier access to medical services and more convenience and this is opening big opportunities for insurers, retailers, tech companies and nontraditional players to muscle their way into primary care.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 28, 2024

While there are common struggles for the primary care model in many wealthy countries, the U.S. is a particularly poor performer with overburdened physicians and unsatisfactory patient care in general.

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