Healthcare Finance News April 21, 2017
Bernie Monegain

Hospitals, doctors’ practices, government, insurers, and healthcare IT companies could all be affected, Kalorama says.

By their very existence, retail clinics could threaten parts of the healthcare system, according to a new report from healthcare research firm Kalorama Information.

By Kalorama’s count, there are 2,200 small one-person healthcare facilities located within a retail store, across the United States and hospitals, doctors’ practices, government, insurers, and healthcare IT companies could all be affected by them.

“The retail clinic concept is brought up in nearly every discussion of healthcare, in cost-cutting for governments or methods for better preventive care,” Kalorama said in its report, Retail Clinics 2017: The Game-Changer in Healthcare. It’s Kalorama’s eighth report on retail clinics in the past 10...

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