Becker's Healthcare June 20, 2023
Giles Bruce

Walmart Health may have an advantage over other retail healthcare clinics because the big-box store has so many other products available to patients, Arkansas Business reported.

Walmart Health “is primary care for people with no serious illnesses who are on the way to picking up the African violet in the garden center and decide to drop by about a cough that won’t go away,” Mark Pauly, PhD, a health economist at Philadelphia-based Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, told the news outlet for the June 19 story.

The retail giant plans to have more than 75 healthcare clinics open by the first quarter of 2024. Walmart also...

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