How Employers Are Fixing Health Care

Walmart has embraced a new approach to improve the quality of care and lower costs. The results have been dramatic.

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M. Ruth Coleman

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M. Ruth Coleman

March 13, 2019 · Long read

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How Employers Are Fixing Health Care

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Inside Employers’ New Health Care Playbook

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Why Do Employers Provide Health Care in the First Place?

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Two Surgeries, Two Outcomes

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What Makes Geisinger’s Destination Care Program Tick

A 56-year-old man who works at Walmart — we’ll call him Bill — had been suffering from mild neck pain for years. Recently the pain had worsened, and his wife noticed a subtle tremor in his hands. An MRI showed some narrowing of the spinal column along with disc degeneration. A local surgeon explained that Bill’s best option was spine surgery.

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Lisa Woods is the senior director of strategy and design for U.S. benefits at Walmart.
Jonathan R. Slotkin, MD, is the director of spine surgery at Geisinger Neuroscience Institute and the associate chief medical informatics officer at Geisinger Health.
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M. Ruth Coleman is the founder of Health Design Plus and the principal at ValTrans Health.