Walmart wouldlike to to grab a bigger slice of the health care market's revenuesand hopes that its new heath centers can do the job.

Venturing further into the health care arena, Walmart is testingout yet another concept in providing some forms of care whethercustomers are insured or not.

According to a KCRA report, Walmart is testingits new health center in Georgia, where customers can stopin to see a doctor for routine checkups as well as for ongoingtreatment of chronic illnesses like diabetes and heartdisease—even if they have no health coverage.

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It's not free, of course, but the costs are low at "WalmartHealth"—and not just for the abovementioned services. The facility,which opened in January, also offers lab work, X-rays, dental care,behavioral health counseling, eye and hearing exams and otherservices—with the bill for an annual adult checkup just $30 withoutinsurance. Eye exams are $45, while dental exams are $25. They caneven get therapy sessions for $60.

There are two of these health centers; the first is in Dallas,Georgia, and opened back in September; this second one is locatedin Calhoun, Georgia. Walmart would like to wade into the healthcare market's 15+ percent share of the national economy and hopesthat such heath centers can do the job.

By starting in areas in which care is both expensive and hard tocome by, Walmart hopes to make some inroads against conventionalhealth insurance by providing primary care options to those whonormally may have little or no access to care for chronic diseases(both areas have higher-than-normal rates) and fewer primary carephysicians to go to (again, a circumstance haunting the regionsaround both new health centers).

According to KCRA, "Walmart believes it can fill thatgap for its customers without health insurance, as well as thosewho have insurance plans with high deductibles and out-of-pocketcosts." And it thinks it can do so by easing its own doctors intothe slots currently filled—when available—by patients' currentprimary care providers.

It certainly won't hurt the megachain's retail side, with healthcare bringing in ready-made customers in the form of patients whocan't get—or can't afford—care anywhere else. And the addition ofmedical, dental and therapist care, in addition to itsalready-established pharmacies and optical departments, signals notjust a broader approach but also a more concentrated effort toenlarge the relationship it already has with its customers.

In doing so, it's challenging not just Amazon's efforts to provide health care, butalso CVS and Walgreens clinics—and it thinks it can be profitable,because it's not operating the same way as the current health caresystem. In addition, it has all those big-box stores and massiveparking lots to take advantage of.

Walmart vice president of health and wellnesstransformation Marcus Osbore, speaking in aninterview, explained that those who visit its clinics havenot seen a primary care provider or dentist in a number of years,and that for many patients, this was their first opportunity toaccess mental health services.

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