News Report | October 27, 2019
Walmart Employee Health Plan Expands ‘Centers Of Excellence’ Program To Cover Kidney Transplants In 2020
On October 3, 2019, Walmart announced it had expanded the employee health plan for 2020 to add kidney transplants to the list of procedures covered by their Centers of Excellence (COE) program. The kidney transplant COE locations are Mayo Clinic sites in Rochester, Minnesota; Phoenix, Arizona; and Jacksonville, Florida.
The COE program launched six years ago. Through its COE program, Walmart covers the full cost of travel and treatment for employees seeking certain heart and spine surgeries; hip and joint replacements; breast, lung, colorectal, prostate, and blood cancers; specific weight loss surgeries; and certain organ and tissue transplants, except cornea . . .