Walgreens and VillageMD to open 29 primary care practices in Texas this year

Walgreens Boots Alliance and VillageMD have declared plans to open up 29 new Village Medical at Walgreens procedures in Houston, Austin and El Paso this year. 

The strategic partnership is on keep track of to fulfill its general target of opening at minimum 600 Village Medical at Walgreens in far more than 30 U.S. marketplaces in excess of the next 4 many years, with the intent to build hundreds far more, according to Walgreens. 

The growth is component of the $1 billion accelerated investment exertion declared in January 2021 to integrate Village Medical principal treatment doctors and Walgreens pharmacy companies.

Present day information follows Walgreens’ strategic program to provide its wholesale pharmacy small business to AmerisourceBergen for $6.5 billion, a transaction finished in June, for the enterprise to use the funds to speed up expansion of its core retail pharmacy and health care companies.

WHY THIS MATTERS 

Walgreens is continuing its growth into principal treatment through an integrated treatment delivery model that combines the shopper advantage of a retail pharmacy with the advantage of claims entry to increase treatment adherence and reduced expenditures.

Physicians and pharmacists are positioned underneath 1 roof.

“These gains aid people choose the right treatment and the right doses at the right time, getting rid of the obstacles to accessing principal treatment and pharmacy by owning it all in 1 location,” the enterprise said.

In Austin, El Paso and Houston, there are far more than 825,000 people in just five miles of a new or planned Village Medical at Walgreens who are in excess of 65 many years old, according to Walgreens.

In addition, the providers have expanded their coordinated treatment model to make it possible for Village Medical people to entry the exact sort of pharmacy companies – which include between-visit refills, treatment substitutions and consultations – from pick out Walgreens web sites that do not have a colocated Village Medical. 

This plan has released at all colocations and is launching at nine non-colocations in the Houston and Phoenix regions. 

With Walgreens currently being able to digitally entry info from Village Medical, people can receive the exact sort of coordinated treatment as they would at colocations, which include saving time on prescription refills, navigating insurance coverage protection, locating significantly less high priced treatment choices and controlling co-shell out expenditures, the enterprise said.

THE Much larger Development

A year in the past, Walgreens said it would open up far more than 500 Village MD principal treatment workplaces in just retailers. Walgreens has far more than 21,000 retailers.

It is competing versus principal treatment companies and other massive retail pharmacy chains, these types of as CVS, which has HealthHubs.

VillageMD associates with doctors to supply instruments, technologies, functions, staffing support and marketplace associations. The Village Medical manufacturer offers principal treatment for people at traditional freestanding clinics, at Village Medical at Walgreens clinics, at household and by way of digital visits. 

VillageMD said is also among the largest participating sponsors of CMS’ new Immediate Contracting plan.

ON THE Report

“This strategic partnership between Walgreens and VillageMD demonstrates our continuing determination to the treatment and nicely-currently being of our people, and we’re energized to broaden our principal treatment and pharmacy service choices in Texas,” said Jamie Vortherms, vice president of health care companies for Walgreens. 

“With Village Medical principal treatment companies and Walgreens pharmacy companies sent through an integrated treatment model, we’re facilitating typical and immediate interaction with people, aiding produce enhanced health outcomes and cost-effective treatment,” said Dr. Clive Fields, cofounder and chief medical officer of VillageMD.

“We are happy to broaden these choices in Texas so inhabitants can deal with their serious circumstances and emphasis on currently being nutritious, energetic customers of their community.”
 
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