Walmart Health is significantly expanding its presence in Florida, with plans to open 16 medical centers across the Jacksonville, Orlando and Tampa areas by the fall of 2023, the company said Wednesday.
The clinics will be located next to Walmart Supercenters and are set to provide primary care, labs, radiography, behavioral health, oral health and public health seven days a week. .
Walmart said WOMENThe first half of appointments made in the past year are for primary and chronic care.
“As the population in Florida continues to grow at a rate more than double that of the rest of the United States, so does,” said Dr. David Carmouche, Walmart’s Senior Vice President of Omnichannel Care. There is a need to increase access to quality health care. , in a newsletter.
In addition to 32 in-person locations in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, and Texas, Walmart Health is also providing virtual care through telemedicine provider MedMD, which it acquires in 2021.
Several Walmart Health centers in Florida and Georgia will begin providing value-based care to Medicare Advantage patients in January 2023 as part of a partnership between Walmart and UnitedHealth Group, the companies that have announced in September. Florida clinics will be the first of Walmart locations to roll out Epic electronic health records.
Last year, Walmart’s health division generated nearly 11 percent of the company’s total revenue, $42.84 billion.
