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How Big Retailers Are Becoming Healthcare Disruptors
Table of Contents
Report Snapshot
Retailers are making multibillion-dollar healthcare investments and acquisitions.
Consumers value what many established healthcare providers aren’t offering.
Most patients get retail clinic care at CVS and Walgreens.
Some retailers hope their health clinics will boost other sales.
Value-based care could be retailers’ revenue growth engine.
Retailers’ reputations will help determine their success in healthcare.
The primary care market is still big enough for established healthcare providers.
How should traditional providers respond to retailers’ healthcare ventures?
What does all this mean for healthcare providers and retailers?
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About This Report
Retailers are bolstering their healthcare services by spending billions on provider groups and platforms. Retail health players and traditional providers will need to differentiate their offerings to stay on top of the competition.
Table of Contents
Report Snapshot
Retailers are making multibillion-dollar healthcare investments and acquisitions.
Consumers value what many established healthcare providers aren’t offering.
Most patients get retail clinic care at CVS and Walgreens.
Some retailers hope their health clinics will boost other sales.
Value-based care could be retailers’ revenue growth engine.
Retailers’ reputations will help determine their success in healthcare.
The primary care market is still big enough for established healthcare providers.
How should traditional providers respond to retailers’ healthcare ventures?
What does all this mean for healthcare providers and retailers?
Sources
Media Gallery
Report Snapshot
Retailers want a piece of the $4.3 trillion US healthcare pie. They’re now investing billions of dollars in healthcare companies and platforms to fortify their internal clinic and pharmacy offerings. These players will disrupt the industry by bringing convenient, technology-centric care to consumers, while also boosting their own bottom lines. Incumbent providers will feel mounting pressure to match the competition.
Key Question: Why are retailers increasingly moving into healthcare, and how concerned should incumbents be?
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KEY STAT: We estimate that 83.7 million US adults, or 31.6% of the population, will visit a retail health clinic in-person this year.
Table of Contents
Report Snapshot
Retailers are making multibillion-dollar healthcare investments and acquisitions.
Consumers value what many established healthcare providers aren’t offering.
Most patients get retail clinic care at CVS and Walgreens.
Some retailers hope their health clinics will boost other sales.
Value-based care could be retailers’ revenue growth engine.
Retailers’ reputations will help determine their success in healthcare.
The primary care market is still big enough for established healthcare providers.
How should traditional providers respond to retailers’ healthcare ventures?
What does all this mean for healthcare providers and retailers?
Sources
Media Gallery
About This Report
Retailers are bolstering their healthcare services by spending billions on provider groups and platforms. Retail health players and traditional providers will need to differentiate their offerings to stay on top of the competition.
Table of Contents
Report Snapshot
Retailers are making multibillion-dollar healthcare investments and acquisitions.
Consumers value what many established healthcare providers aren’t offering.
Most patients get retail clinic care at CVS and Walgreens.
Some retailers hope their health clinics will boost other sales.
Value-based care could be retailers’ revenue growth engine.
Retailers’ reputations will help determine their success in healthcare.
The primary care market is still big enough for established healthcare providers.
How should traditional providers respond to retailers’ healthcare ventures?
What does all this mean for healthcare providers and retailers?
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authors
Rajiv Leventhal
Contributors
- Jeane Han
- Senior Researcher
- Lisa Phillips
- Principal Analyst, Digital Health
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