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Amazon is rolling out its virtual health clinic service nationwide, the company announced Tuesday. Amazon does not provide the telemedicine services itself, but instead provides Amazon Clinic as a platform to connect telemedicine partners with patients. With Tuesday's announcement, users in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., can access Amazon Clinic via video visits. Due to regulatory issues, message-based chat on Amazon Clinic is only available in 32 states. Amazon Clinic doesn't yet accept insurance, but consumers can use insurance to help pay for medications prescribed through the service.
Persons: Nworah Ayogu, Ayogu, Berkshire Hathaway Organizations: Amazon Clinic, Curai, Alpha, D.C, CNBC, Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan Locations: Washington, PillPack
Amazon Clinic launched last November and offers customers 24/7 access to third-party health-care providers directly on Amazon’s website and mobile app. Amazon Clinic currently does not accept insurance, but medication prescribed by clinicians may be covered by insurance. Amazon’s foray into the health care space comes as other retailers have made similar moves, from CVS to Walgreens to Walmart. From AmazonIn recent years, Amazon has gradually been growing its footprint in the health care sector. Earlier this year, Amazon also closed its acquisition of health care provider One Medical in a $3.9 billion deal.
Persons: , Nworah Ayogu, Ayogu, Berkshire Hathaway Organizations: New, New York CNN, D.C, Amazon Clinic, CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, Amazon, Amazon Pharmacy, JPMorgan Chase Locations: New York, Washington
In 2018, it bought online pharmacy PillPack for $750 million, which it followed up by launching its own virtual clinic for chronic conditions. Now Amazon Clinic, which launched in November, is looking to open up a new option for virtual care to help with common issues like allergies, acne and hair loss. That hasn't come without some setbacks – Amazon Care, its effort to take on telemedicine and primary care for the employer market nationwide, was shut down in August after just three years. Health care, he said, can at times be correctly described as paternalistic. "Care can be a thing that we do to patients rather than with patients or for patients," Ayogu said.
Premarket stocks: Wall Street bonus outlook is grim
  + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
New York CNN Business —Ferragamo belt-buckles are being tightened across Wall Street as bankers prepare for a gloomy bonus season. “This is a canary in the coalmine for the economy, if the canary dies that’s not good for anybody,” said Johnson. In recent years, Amazon has gradually been growing its footprint in the health care sector. Earlier this year, Amazon agreed to acquire One Medical, a membership-based primary care service, for $3.9 billion. The big picture: Amazon isn’t the only Big Tech company attempting to cash-in on a chunk of the health care industry.
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