Retail and Employer-Based Clinics Will Play Important Role in Healthcare Reform
A panel at the annual meeting of the American Telemedicine Association in San Jose, Calif., this week described retail- and employer- based clinics as major emerging forces in healthcare reform. Panel participants discussed how retail clinics will prosper under reform as low-cost sites and how connecting them with other providers will be critical to reform’s [...]
MinuteClinic joins coalition dedicated to raising diabetes awareness in Chicago’s South Side
MinuteClinic, which is owned by CVS Caremark, announced on Monday that it has joined a coalition of organizations dedicated to raising diabetes awareness among families on Chicago’s South Side. The coalition is working with Perspectives Charter School Calumet Campus to educate, screen, diagnose and, if needed, provide follow-up care to any student diagnosed with pre-diabetes [...]
Walgreens Launches New and Improved Prescription Savings Club as Approximately 1 in 4 U.S. Adults Lack Adequate Prescription Drug Coverage
The Prescription Savings Club offers discounts on more than 8,000 brand name and generic medications, and now includes more than 700 value-priced generics — nearly twice the number previously offered — for as low as $1 per week for a 90-day supply. The use of generics has resulted in more than $1 trillion in savings [...]
Kroger’s Little Clinics to expand in 2012
Kroger Co.’s Little Clinic operations didn’t grow in 2011 but should pick up a bit of speed in 2012, according to a new report. The stagnation was attributed to a severed relationship with Publix Super Markets Inc. and Little Clinic’s leadership change, according to Shoreview, Minn.-based Merchant Medicine’s ConvUrgentCare 2012 Market Report. Michael Stoll, a Kroger veteran, took [...]
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