That's how it looks when the pharmacy chain and the health insurer connect.

In November, CVS finished the position of buying Aetna for $ 69 billion, the largest healthcare deal in the situation. Now CVS is piloting 3 healthhub stores in Houston with a set of honey offerings that have every chance of freezing the pharmacy of the future.

Fresh HealthHubs fits in the arrogant project of the General Director of CVS Larry Merlo reincarnate 9800 stores his firm's “purpose healthcare.” CVS wants to arm its own sprawling network of shops close to the whole honey of the proposals for the defense of competition from Amazon and the waves of mergers in the branch.

"The service component will be a component that is not easy to reproduce on the Internet," Merlot said at a conference last year.

The CVS already has 1,100 roam in MinuteClinics providing basic care for pharyngitis or otitis media. But his HealthHub stores are significantly more equipped than any other to heal patients with acquired diseases, these like diabetes and respiratory diseases. Refreshed shops with nutritionists, nurse practitioners, laboratory services and medical devices on the shelves suggest that CVS actually wants to move its own stores beyond the aisles with snacks and toothpaste.

“Do you need to own half a row for greeting cards? Quick, no. And how many different types of shampoo do you need?” said Lisa Gill, an analyst at JP Morgan healthcare.

Houston stores are replacing the more fragile segments, these as greeting cards, with a 20% larger area dedicated to Wellness products, such as asthma and sleep apnea and iPad, which will explore apps for Wellness and good health.

"This is a natural evolution, for example, as they recently acquired Aetna," said Ross Muken, an analyst at Evercore ISI. The summary wants to assume "a complete alignment to health care", - he added.

Rising health care costs
CVS comes with tremendous outstanding quality. It has pressed into healthcare for Years: it bought the pharmacy superiority Manager Caremark more than a decade that back. In 2014, the company acquired Omnicare in order to expand business between patients with the acquired disease and stopped the resale of cigarettes.

It is the largest pharmacy chain in the country, and almost 70% of the USA population lives within 3 miles of the CVS store.

More than 30,000 honey employees of the company are still doing HealthHub strategy reliable for customers: "in the health care system, one of the most reliable consultants is considered a pharmacist," said Gill.

CVS has acquired Aetna in order to make a huge client base: it collects health awards in the range of 39 million Yankees. The firm believes, in fact, that the purchase will undoubtedly help them to lower costs and increase the benefits of these intentions.

But these stores will face competition from emergency support hospitals that are seen across the country, and more retailers, these like Walmart, who are still playing in healthcare.

CVS has targeted patients with acquired conditions as the main method of lowering costs. Patients with acquired diseases are considered the most expensive to insure in the United States. 5 the criterion is drawn up within 80% of $3.5 trillion in the health care costs taking place every year: heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, asthma and mental health.

"Here we see huge abilities. People with diabetes, asthma, cardiovascular diseases-we know their names," said Merlot last year. “They do not achieve their own best health.”

Shopping hub, these are as fresh in Houston, will be focused on data from patients with advanced proposals MinuteClinic, which has all chances to inspect, diagnose, cure and give the following support. Shops in Houston will still own more rooms for patient care, and more classes for seminars on health and nutrition. For example, in Houston there is a class with The American heart Association.

But there will be no healthcare workers in Houston, CVS is partnering with TelaDoc, a virtual healthcare platform that brings healthcare professionals and patients together.

How to avoid a trip to ER
CVS wants that the patients came to its stores for more of the smaller criterion, but not in the branch of urgent support, in fact that is considered the most expensive option of care for insurers, as these Aetna. Trips to fast have all chances to cost thousand $ for any visit.

"Think about the number of visits that end at the emergency branch," Merlot said. “They could be seen in a retail clinic for a small fraction of the price.”

CVS believes, in fact, that it has the ability to freeze "patient care coordinator", advising them on the tasks of body exercise, diet and weight loss intentions. Patients with acquired diseases have all chances to address to the doctor and to leave with intention of healing, but subsequently this they quite often remain on for themselves. That's where CVS wants to cut the role.

"We do not intend to treat diabetes, but we can help this patient with diabetes to achieve their own best health and avoid unintentional medical events that occur any day with thousands of people across the country," said Merlot.

‘Fan’
The company plans a "nodal approach" to the reconstruction of stores across the country.

CVS will still know what the hub stores will look like. Habitat for habitat, CVS talks, in fact he will settle what the circumstances are more versprochenen in communities and what honey deals, in order to guarantee that actually has the ability to lower costs.

"If there is an Association where there is an elevated degree of diabetes, they will have specialists placed in those stores that offer outreach, space for buyers to get the materials, space to work on weight loss and find out the degree of insulin," said Muken Evercore.

Some stores will offer vision and hearing or blood pressure screening, while others have a good chance of owning blood laboratories and offering vaccines. He still runs the pilot with SmileDirectClub, in order to offer dental offers in 6 stores.

Visits to the clinic increase the benefit of CVS and give it a chance to inject funds back into the creation of a more competitive intentions of medical insurance through Aetna.

CVS receives a fee for the visit of the buyer, instead of this, in order to scribble a check for visiting the ER. 90% of the time patients visit the primary health center, a prescription will be written, said Gill.

Finally, the summary fills in these recipes. And if customers hang around, while the pharmacy fills their prescription, CVS relies, in fact, that they will wander to the store for a Supplement without a prescription or one of the fresh healthy snacks CVS.