Managed Care Mag January 2, 2020
Tashfeen Ekram, MD

More than 2,000 retail clinics have made their entry into the healthcare market as giants including CVS, Walgreens. and Walmart have become key players in the industry. The services they offer are meeting consumers’ growing demand for immediate and easy access to care. This is putting pressure on traditional health care providers to rethink how they engage, attract and retain patients within their own clinics. As patients, we continually have to pay more for the same health care services, and as a result, we’re exercising more control over our health care decisions and conducting greater research to identify the providers that fit our needs.

The success of these retail clinics is similar to what drives the winners in most...

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