Are you a doctor? Want to work with Apple employees? Here's your shot.
Employees working at Apple's Cupertino, Calif. headquarters will soon benefit from a new "concierge-like healthcare experience," more evidence of big companies leveraging healthcare to both lure talent and streamline a costly expense.
A new company called AC Wellness on Monday began advertising jobs both on its website and on sites such as Glassdoor for positions that include care navigator, phlebotomist and acute care physician.
A lead care navigator overseeing the care of Apple employees will make around $144,000 a year and is expected to "always appear polished and composed," according to Glassdoor. "Personal hygiene must be impeccable," the ad reads.
Citing a launch date of 2018, AC Wellness describes itself as an "independent medical practice dedicated to delivering compassionate, effective healthcare to the Apple employee population."
Apple declined to comment. AC Wellness did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
LinkedIn, Facebook and other tech companies feature on-site doctors for their employees, a perk that is in line with tech company benefits that often include chef-cooked meals, massage therapists and bowling alleys.
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The more than 10,000 employees who work at Apple's old Infinity Loop campus in Cupertino, between San Francisco and San Jose, access medical assistance through Apple Wellness Centers. Some of the new AC Wellness jobs are for Apple Park, the company's new spaceship-like offices which eventually will house most of the iPhone-maker's workers.
Apple currently provides medical services through Crossover Health; the company's Wellness Center site asks for employees to input their Crossover Health ID. In October, CNBC reported that Apple had been in discussions to acquire Crossover Health, but the deal fell through.
The new venture, first reported by CNBC, is part of a growing shakeup of the traditional healthcare provider system and one that seems designed to give particularly large employers more control over their healthcare costs.
Health care spending was 17.9% of the U.S. economy in 2016, or about $10,348 per person, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Amazon recently announced it was joining forces with Warren Buffett's Bershire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase to reinvent the healthcare space.
Although few details are available about how the trio might handle such a makeover, experts say that there are savings to be had in both streamlining prescriptions and investing more heavily on disease and injury prevention.
At Apple's recent shareholder meeting, CEO Tim Cook said the company could make a "significant contribution" in the healthcare space, one that perhaps eventually incorporates the Apple Watch's ability to track basic fitness markers.
Apple also is looking to use its iPhone Health app to better aggregate and streamline patient medical records, something that could come into play when employees use the in-house Wellness Center.
Tech rivals such as Google, Microsoft and Samsung have similar ambitions to untangle a records thicket that frequently leaves patients frustrated.
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