In late April, Walmart announced it will close Walmart Health and Walmart Health Virtual Care, five years after launching the service. Walgreens' VillageMD also shut down 160 of their primary care clinics this year after reporting a nearly $6 billion loss in the second quarter. So, what does this all mean for the healthcare landscape? We don't have a crystal ball, but we do have a few potential takeaways to share.
2024 is sure to be a busy year in the Medicare market, and there is likely to be more noise competing for the limited attention of healthcare consumers. The major disruptions fall into two categories: regulatory changes and market forces. With these anticipated challenges, it is crucial that marketers plan ahead in order to meet their annual goals. Here are the major events on our radar and how payers can work around them.
The RISE Medicare Marketing and Sales Summit is an annual event bringing together a mix of health plan marketers, salespeople, agents, brokers, field marketing organizations, marketing agencies, technology partners and third-party benefit and service vendors. The following are eight topics that continued bubbling up in conversations and sessions among this diverse set of attendees.
Looking at the greatest membership gains and losses overall doesn't quite paint the whole picture. We looked at changes by plan type and noticed something interesting: Some of the biggest winners didn't gain across product types, but just one or two types of plans.
While we've seen a number of co-branded, payer-provider partnerships announced in the past, this type of joint branding between two insurance companies stands out as unique.
Telemedicine is not new, but we may be at the cusp of it taking a leading role in healthcare delivery.
Over half of the doctors surveyed said that social media enables them to care for patients more effectively, while 60 percent stated it helps to deliver a higher quality of care to patients.
Medical professionals throughout the country are replacing pamphlets and office hours with blogs, social streams, QR codes and mobile outreach.