“In this clinician job market, how many nurses are going to want to work in a potentially career-unstable [retail healthcare] environment, with, in some cases, potential pay cuts compared to working inside bricks-and-mortar-based health systems?”
In a recent analysis of Walmart’s decision to exit the clinic business, Healthcare Innovation’s Mark Hagland nailed one of the big stumbling blocks for challengers such as the discount retail giant, the abandoned Amazon-Berkshire Hathaway-JPMorgan Chase collaboration and traditional drugstore titans CVS and Walgreens.
You won’t find many people arguing against the idea that effective population health management and value-based care form the long-term path to improving quality and thus lowering costs. Stakeholders (public and private) are trying things and funding programs—Healthcare Innovation’s population health management section showcases the scope of those efforts—but it sure feels like the expected travel time isn’t getting any shorter.
