Optum’s MedExpress & Walgreens Team Up On Urgent Care

Optum company MedExpress and Walgreen Boots Alliance recently announced they will be collaborating to launch a number of urgent care centers. Some centers – which are attached to Walgreens stores – have already opened, and are located throughout Virginia, West Virginia, Dallas, the Twin Cities and Omaha, Nebraska.

The partnerships comes in the wake of CVS Health offering $69 billion to purchase Aenta, one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies. Moves such as this have been on the rise recently, as consumers push for reduced prices via increased care outpatient settings. Walgreens currently has 8,100 drugstores throughout the United . . .