- Lance Murray
- Digital Content Producer- Dallas Business Journal
- In an effort to save on health-care costs, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will begin next year offering its insured employees no-cost heart and spine surgeries and will pay for their travel at eight hospitals around the nation, including one in Texas.
The Dallas Morning News reported that the nation’s largest employer will offer the so-called “medical tourism” at Scott & Whitle Memorial in Temple and at seven other hospitals in the country.
The newspaper said that rising health-care costs are driving some employers to narrow the number of doctors and hospitals that are covered on their insurance plans.
You can read the full report in the Dallas Morning News here.
Lance Murray edits and writes for the DBJ’s website and can be reached at 214-706-7106
source: http://www.bizjournals.com / Friday, October 12th, 2012
