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Walmart’s Sam’s Club is teaming up with several health care companies to offer discounts on routine care that customers might delay or skip because of the cost. Starting next month, Sam’s Club members in Michigan, Pennsylvania and North Carolina will be able to buy bundles of health care services that include discounted dental care, free prescriptions for certain generic medications, and telehealth consultations.

Walmart’s Sam’s Club announced a pilot program Thursday in partnership with Seattle-based telehealth startup 98point6 and health-care company Humana to offer affordable health-care services to its members.

Grabinski is among a growing cohort of physicians who have traded clinic jobs for the tech life. But since leaving his job at the Polyclinic in Seattle, his day-to-day hasn’t changed as much as you might think. Grabinski still sees — or, more accurately, messages — roughly the same number of patients in a day, but he’s also involved in building an app that is trying to radically change how patients seek care.

98point6 is pioneering a new approach to primary care. By pairing deep technology with board-certified physicians, its vision is to make primary care more accessible and affordable—leading to better health and reducing the cost of care.

Today’s college students are the least likely generation to go to a primary care doctor. Only 55 percent of Generation Z have a primary care physician, compared to two thirds of millennials and 76 percent of Generation X, according to a 2019 Digital Health Consumer Survey. 98point6 partnered with Ohio Wesleyan University to provide students with free telemedicine services