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☆ Walmart is tackling its $6 billion healthcare bill by pushing employees to see telehealth doctors
  + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Walmart is expanding its virtual health care service to employees across the US. Roughly half of traditional health plan participants do not receive primary care, due in part to lack of access. AdvertisementAdvertisementMore Walmart workers across the US will soon have access to virtual health care services as the country's largest employer expands the offering to all states starting October 14, the company said Tuesday. Employees in 21 states were previously eligible for the telehealth benefit through a provider called Included Health, which rolled out its virtual primary care offering in 2020. Walmart's US health plan spent more than $6 billion last year on claims, premiums, and administrative costs, Bloomberg reported, citing Labor Department filings.
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☆ Workers are clamoring for pricey new weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. Companies are grappling with how to respond.
  + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +10 min
Companies that pay for workers' health insurance are grappling with how to cover the pricey drugs. Medicare, the federal program that provides health coverage for people 65 and older, doesn't cover weight-loss drugs. ArcBest already has a program to help workers lose weight through behavior changes and nutrition. Krutsch said he wants to build on that, covering the weight-loss drugs Wegovy and Saxenda for employees who aren't able to lose weight without medication. The new weight-loss drugs were in short supply in 2022, and that gave employers time to figure out how to handle them, he said.
☆ Digital health's funding slump isn't a death sentence. Here's what startups are doing to stand out to investors.
  + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | Blake Dodge | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
It's getting harder for digital-health startups to get investor attention. Fewer digital-health startups are fundraising, and the ones that are will be held to higher standards than before, investors told Insider. This year, a smaller group of digital-health startups is beginning to stand out. "It's been amazing to watch what this business has accomplished," she told Insider. Quantum is already earning enough to fund itself, Zane Burke, the CEO of Quantum, told Insider.
☆ Inside digital health's reckoning, where once-hot startups are suddenly scrambling for cash
  + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Blake Dodge | Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +11 min
Analysts and CEOs told Insider more than half of healthcare startups will shut down by 2024. Healthcare startups looking to stay afloat have been laying off employees left and right. The online pharmacy Truepill burned through its cash as it struggled to fill prescriptions efficiently, two former employees told Insider. A spokesperson for Truepill told Insider in an email that the company's burn rate was in line with its projections. Courtesy NOCDWhile the broader economic pressures will hurt many startups that can't raise, it may help others, experts told Insider.
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