Humana has major growth ambitions for its CenterWell senior-focused primary care business and plans to open 50 new centers by 2025.
"Those are aggressive growth targets and we want to grow by thousands of patients," Erica Savage-Jeter, M.D., division chief medical officer for CenterWell Senior Primary Care, told Fierce Senior Editor Paige Minemyer during the Fierce Health Payer Summit in Austin last week.
The U.S. population is aging, with 10,000 people turning 65 every day, according to U.S. Census data. By 2030, all boomers will be at least age 65, data show, and this will increase the demand for primary care and specialty care services.
Humana sees a major opportunity to grow in the provider space and opened its 250th CenterWell clinic in Dallas this past summer. CenterWell clinicians treat more than 272,000 seniors at hundreds of centers in 12 states.