{"title":"Staying Mad: Walmart Gets Even-by Contracting Directly.","authors":"Lola Butcher","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 1991, the world's second richest man griped about health care costs. Today, Sam Walton's Walmart empire is striking back with direct contracting. The retail giant is using centers-of-excellence contracts by which it pays high-value provider organizations to treat specific medical problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":39329,"journal":{"name":"Managed Care","volume":"28 3","pages":"19-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Managed Care","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In 1991, the world's second richest man griped about health care costs. Today, Sam Walton's Walmart empire is striking back with direct contracting. The retail giant is using centers-of-excellence contracts by which it pays high-value provider organizations to treat specific medical problems.