CVS, Walmart, Walgreens, Dollar General hiring docs to get a piece of what hospitals have dominated for years.
A spokesman for the American Hospital Association declined to comment for this story.Loren Anthes, a health-care expert at Cleveland-based nonprofit Community Solutions and aat Ohio University's medical school, said the ongoing hospital consolidation and expansion is"not sustainable" because health care is moving away from traditional brick-and-mortar settings.
"They're shifting towards a more primary care model, where it's like instead of a place where you go buy greeting cards and chocolate, and then maybe pick up a medication, it'll be more like that's where you go to get your flu shot and your annual checkup, and then, if you want to on the way out, buy a piece of chocolate.", who teaches both accounting and health policy/management at Johns Hopkins University.
"I think this is a a promising development that can have a disruptive impact on health care market competition," she said. The challengers might find success because"they have a competitive cost structure." For example, the big box stores have to devote only a portion of their facility to the new primary care push. And the doctors they hire also can supervise much-less-expensive physicians assistants or nurse practitioners, she said
Another key: The new competitors already are in convenient locations that often are well known to consumers.Could Walmart, Dollar General help solve America's rural health care crisis?
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