DAILY UPDATE: Telehealth and the RealPage

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Telehealth has taken more hits lately than a piñata at a birthday party. For example:

In April, UnitedHealth Group announced it was shutting down its Optum Virtual Care program. Days later, Walmart announced it would shutter both Walmart Health and Walmart Health Virtual Care.

And in July, Teladoc posted a net loss of $838 million in Q2. The drop was largely driven by an impairment charge of ~$800 million for BetterHelp, the virtual mental health platform it acquired in 2015, Fierce Healthcare reported. Executives attributed the decline to increased customer acquisition costs, among other factors.

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  • The Justice Department and the attorneys general of eight states sued RealPage, an apartment-pricing tool widely used by corporate landlords, alleging that it lowers competition by allowing property owners to coordinate higher rents.

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CORPORATE: Entrants in Healthcare Struggle

By Health Capital Consultants LLC.

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On April 30, 2024, retail giant Walmart announced their closure of Walmart Health, a network of 51 health centers that provided “primary and urgent care, labs, x-ray and diagnostics, behavioral health, dental, optometry and hearing services.” Walmart cited the lack of profitability, escalating costs of operation, and challenging environment for reimbursement as the reasons behind Walmart Health’s unsustainability.

This Health Capital Topics article discusses Walmart’s closures, the other corporate entrants struggling in the healthcare market, and what these challenges indicate for the primary care space. (Read more…)

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