Why Healthcare Insurers Are Entering the Services Market

Los Angeles

Healthcare insurers are entering the healthcare business. Recently, insurers have entered the vertical by offering services directly, and some are even buying lab facilities and moving into dialysis. JLL southwest region market director Peter Belisle explored the trend on a recent podcast with Bryan Lewitt and Chris Isola, healthcare brokerage professionals at the firm.

Belisle asked the duo what is diving the trend on the JLL Way Podcast Series. “They want to capture it so that they can control the costs,” explained Lewitt. “One of the major healthcare providers in Southern California is capturing all different aspects of healthcare so that they can control the costs. They have the three legs of the stool: they have the hospitals, the physician groups and they are an insurance company. They are an $80 billion revenue company and they are non-profit.”