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To curb wasteful health spending, Walmart to send employees traveling for spine surgery

By Wall Street Journal  
   November 15, 2018

Walmart Inc. said it will require its employees to use certain hospitals for costly spine surgeries, an effort to weed out unnecessary procedures and lower its health-care spending. The retailer has been trying since 2013 to encourage employees to undergo the surgeries at hospital systems known for their quality by offering to pay the full cost of the procedures and travel.

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