Tullman on first “everyday low price” offer for self-insured employers – The Health Care Blog

By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH

Walmart wants to scale its healthcare business in a whole new way: with an eye on self-insured employers. The retail giant today announced a go-to-market partnership with Transcarent, making its prescription drugs and health services available to self-insured employers for the first time at an “everyday low price”. Glen Tullman, Executive Chairman and CEO of Transcarent, stops by to tell us the inside story of the deal with Walmart, what it means to the industry and how it could once and for all spark the “payer disruption” that is we “I’ve been waiting for since JP Morgan, Berkshire Hathaway, and Amazon came together to create Haven.

Transcarent and Glen are committed to reshaping the healthcare payment model by eliminating as many middlemen as possible while reshaping the healthcare and nursing experience. What does this partnership with Walmart mean for this mission and for Transcarent? Is this “deal” that we will look back on the one that catapulted Transcarent into a new phase of growth? Remember when Glen’s last company, Livongo, shot into the stratosphere after his deal with CVS Health? I ask Glen if he’s playing the same game in a much bigger game and finally I admit: Transcarent is NOT a healthcare navigator!