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Wal-Mart to join Arkansas health care program

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Thursday it will add its Arkansas employees to a state effort aimed at lowering health care costs by changing the way private insurers and Medicaid pay for services, and it committed $670,000 to create a tracking system that would measure the initiative's success.

By Andrew DeMillo | Updated on January 10, 2013

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Thursday it will add its Arkansas employees to a state effort aimed at lowering health care costs by changing the way private insurers and Medicaid pay for services, and it committed $670,000 to create a tracking system that would measure the initiative’s success.

The world’s largest retailer announced that it would participate in the state’s payment improvement initiative, which moves away from a fee-for-service model to one where insurers pay for “episodes” of care rather than each individual treatment.

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