Retail clinics do not reduce ER visits for minor ailments

A new study provides further evidence that retail clinics may not cut health costs. There has been hope that retail clinics will help lower health care costs by diverting care from costly emergency departments to more convenient and lower-cost retail clinics, but the new findings do not support that idea.

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