This CLE course will provide information on retail clinics including a discussion of the key healthcare regulatory and business issues involved with establishing, operating, or working at a retail clinic. This will include not only the formation, operation, and regulation of retail clinics, but also the increased use of digital health technology in the delivery of services.
Retail clinics have become a common feature at most “big box” stores with clinics located within retail outlets such as Target (MinuteClinic), Walmart (Care Clinics), CVS Health (MinuteClinic), and Kroger (The Little Clinic). Pharmacies were early adopters of onsite clinics and during COVID, the role of these clinics became an important part of the COVID response; enabling hospitals to attend to more critically ill patients. Where physicians and hospitals once widely regarded retail clinics as a threat to their business and risky for patients, the market has shifted with retail clinics adding to the pantheon of participating providers of healthcare services.
With the increased need for healthcare access, retail clinics have found their niche in the delivery system and offer a convenient alternative for not only patients, but also for hospitals, physician groups, retailers, insurers, local pharmacies, and private investors. However, as with any healthcare service, there must be due consideration of the legal and regulatory landscape.
Listen as our authoritative panel of healthcare attorneys examines the expanding role of retail clinics and the issues raised by their emerging relationships with pharmacies, physicians, hospitals, health systems, and payers in a post-pandemic healthcare system.
