Millennials more likely to use walk-in clinics, telemedicine, survey shows

Dive Brief:

• Younger consumers are opting for nontraditional ways of engaging with healthcare and applying their shopping behaviors to the decisionmaking process, a new EBRI Research survey finds.
• Millennials — those born between 1980 and 2000 — are also more than twice as likely as baby boomers to use a walk-in clinic (30% versus 14%) and more than twice as likely to consider telemedicine (40% versus 19%).
• They are also more likely to research their care options online. For example, 51% of millennials report checking a doctor’s or hospital’s rating and 28% use cost tracking, too. Those figures drop to 31% and 10% for baby boomers.

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