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May 18, 2009
Hospitals are invading the market:
Around the country, hospitals are now affiliated with more than 25 Wal-Mart clinics. The Cleveland Clinic has lent its name and backup services to a string of CVS drugstore clinics in northeastern Ohio. And the Mayo Clinic is in the game, operating one Express Care clinic at a supermarket in Rochester, Minn., and a second one across town at a shopping mall.
Consumers who use the clinics are often "exactly the customers that hospitals want – women of child-bearing age….. the hospitals want to deliver babies.
So why can't doctors own walk-in clinics? Answer: Pete Stark.
4 Responses to “Anybody Can Own a Walk-in Clinic, Except Doctors”
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Helium
May 18th, 2009 at 8:22 am
I don’t understand why doctors don’t get off their duffs and insist on the sames rights everyone else has.
May 18th, 2009 at 8:30 am
Frank, the problem is not that doctors are sitting on their duffs. The AMA is almost totally focused on what doctors get paid by Medicare and not on liberating the doctors from a dysfunctional system
May 18th, 2009 at 8:46 am
The Stark Laws don’t make sense.
Are mechanics prohibited from owning car repair shops?
Are chefs prohibited from owning restaurants?
Are barbers prohibited from owning barbershops?
Why are doctors prohibited from owning walk-in clinics?
May 19th, 2009 at 11:33 am
More and more hospitals are operating retail clinics as a way to build brand awareness. Few hospitals have any idea how to compete in a retail environment. It will be interesting to see how well hospitals fare when they have to compete on price, quality and convenience in order to attract customers.