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November 2018 Issue of Beckers Hospital Review   ON THE COVER Walmart Is Changing How We Pay For Healthcare: 5 Things to KnowWith nearly 1.5 million employees across 4,700 stores, Bentonville, Ark.-based Walmart is the nation’s largest private employer. And…

Walmart is partnering with media company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios to produce original programming for Walmart's Vudu streaming service, according to Bloomberg.

Bookseller Barnes & Noble is evaluating a possible sale after multiple parties, including its executive chairman and founder Leonard Riggio, expressed interest in the move, according to The Wall Street Journal.

EBay is accusing Amazon of trying to poach merchants for its own marketplace through eBay's seller messaging system, according to The Wall Street Journal.

FedEx is offering pilots approaching retirement age bonuses ranging from $40,000 to $110,000 to stay on the job through the busy holiday delivery season, according to Fortune.

Emma Passé, an account executive at Employee Benefit Management Services, described her unsuccessful efforts to turn down prescribed painkillers after abdominal surgery and said clinicians must realize "pain is a symptom, not a disease," in an op-ed for USA Today.

Grocery chain Kroger is partnering with Walgreens for a pilot program that will allow customers to pick up groceries at Walgreens locations, according to Fortune.

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou,  founder of low-cost airline easyJet, is suing Netflix over its series "Easy," which the lawsuit claims breaches his company's European trademarks, according to The Guardian.

The number of applicants for U.S. graduate business school programs has declined for the fourth year in a row, according to Fortune.

GE is replacing CEO John Flannery, who was appointed in August 2017, with Lawrence Culp, the former CEO of Danaher, according to Fortune.