Cardio Diagnostics Holdings, Inc. Expands Partnership with Family Medicine Specialists to Bring Its Specialty Cardiology Tests to Select Walmart Supercenters

Cardio Diagnostics Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDIO), an AI-driven precision cardiovascular medicine company, today announced that the Company’s AI-driven epigenetic-genetic blood tests, Epi+Gen CHD and PrecisionCHD, will be available beginning Q2 2024 in a retail healthcare setting inside the Walmart Supercenter in Round Lake Beach, Illinois.

Round Lake Beach, a northern suburb of Chicago in Lake County, has been chosen as the strategic starting point for this retail healthcare initiative. This initiative is an expansion of the ongoing Heart Attack Prevention Initiative with Family Medicine Specialists (FMS) to increase the accessibility of clinical cardiovascular diagnostic solutions, moving them beyond traditional provider settings and into the more accessible realm of retail healthcare for hundreds of additional patients in Lake County, Illinois. The retail healthcare footprint and market share continues to grow as more Americans embrace the convenience and accessibility to high quality healthcare services. In a recent report, AMN Healthcare reported that 30.3 percent (79.6 million) Americans received care at a retail clinic, and expect 32.8 percent of Americans to do so in 2024.

“Our partnership with FMS to bring our tests to their Walmart locations is a game-changer in the field of cardiovascular health management. By integrating Cardio Diagnostics' state-of-the-art clinical tests within FMS’s expansive retail network, we are shifting the paradigm from a model that relies on specialty care infrastructure to one that meets American communities in their backyard. This strategic alliance not only democratizes access to top-tier heart disease services but also propels Cardio Diagnostics as a leader in cardiovascular retail healthcare innovation. Our ultimate goal is to meet patients where they are, weaving advanced medical services seamlessly into the fabric of their everyday lives," shared Meesha Dogan, Ph.D., Co-Founder and CEO of Cardio Diagnostics.

Employees and customers in the Round Lake Beach Walmart location of FMS will have access to both of Cardio Diagnostics' clinical blood tests on a walk-in basis. The Company’s epigenetic-genetic cardiovascular clinical blood tests, Epi+Gen CHD and PrecisionCHD, detect heart attack risk and coronary heart disease status, respectively. These tests are easy to administer in the retail healthcare setting because they only require a simple blood draw, bringing this vital service closer to patients.