Walmart is continuing its push into healthcare with the help of a powerful new partner: UnitedHealth Group. The two companies have agreed to a 10-year partnership that aims to drive value-based care adoption for Walmart's clinicians as well as launch a new Medicare Advantage plan.

Amazon's acquisition, announced in July, would provide nearly 200 clinics, over 8,000 customers and a trove of member data, jumpstarting its presence in the employer primary care market. The online retailer has also already begun to unwind Amazon Care, its in-house take on hybrid primary and urgent care.

98point6, a text-based virtual primary care company, will now offer its platform to Indigo Health’s hybrid ambulatory care program. The partnership marks 98point6's first venture as a third-party software provider with $20 million of support raised from existing investors including L Catterton and Activant Capital.

Insurer groups are clamoring that CMS scrap a controversial proposed rule that could leave plans on the hook for greater overpayments to Medicare.

Here are four policy items and legislation to keep an eye out for as lawmakers return from nearly a month off and get back to work in Congress, including must-pass actions on government funding.