Fierce Healthcare

CVS is expanding its MinuteClinics into primary care. Here's why

In a bid to ease access challenges, CVS Health will offer in-network primary care to Aetna members in certain markets through its MinuteClinics. The services are available to certain individual plan ...
Forbes

Primary Care: Why It’s Important And How To Increase Access To It

Primary care is crucial for improving health outcomes and lowering overall healthcare costs. According to a 2021 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “People in ...
Healthcare Dive

New CVS primary care locations to include physicians for first time

CVS Health plans to ramp up its acquisitions of physician practices and clinics as it continues to pursue its primary care strategy and races with other retail pharmacies to build out medical networks ...
Healthcare Dive

CVS unveils new health-focused retail strategy, explicit move into primary care

CVS plans to close 900 stores — roughly 10% of its footprint — over the next three years in an effort to evolve with changing consumer buying patterns. The revamp, part of the retail drugstore's ...

Direct primary care: Accessible health care option | Opinion letters

Readers debate the future of the Affordable Care Act and propose direct primary care as an alternative. Several letters ...
The Conversation

Access to care: 5 principles for action on primary health-care teams

Catherine Donnelly receives funding from Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Federal Government, Ontario Ministry of Health, Ontario Health, Walton ...
Healthline

What Is Primary Care and Why Do You Need It?

You’re a complex individual with unique needs. When it comes to taking care of your health and wellness, you need a healthcare provider who can take care of you from head to toe. To stay safe and ...
UUHC Health Feed

Finding a Primary Care Provider

There are many types of physicians and care providers at University of Utah Health, but the doctor that every patient should have is a primary care provider (PCP). A primary care provider could be: a ...
Healio

Integrating oral health into primary care is 'critical,' but 'there is a long way to go'

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Health Affairs

To Strengthen Primary Care, Harmonize Medicare Advantage And Traditional Medicare Payment Policies

Medicare beneficiaries rely on their primary health care providers to address the majority of their health care needs. Medicare, funded with taxpayer dollars, compensates primary health care providers ...
Opinion

Baby Boomers Are Aging Into A Primary Care Shortage. America Isn’t Ready For This

The largest influx of new beneficiaries is aging into Medicare amid a worsening clinician shortage. Here are four ways the industry can head off this looming crisis.