Shopping For Health Care

Retail health, or convenient care, is capturing more of the children’s health market share. A just released study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Percentage Of Children And Adolescents Aged ≤17 Years Who Visited An Urgent Care Center Or A Clinic In A Drug Store Or Grocery Store In The Past 12 Months, By Age Group And Year — National Health Interview Survey,§ United States, 2021–2022, found that in 2022, 28.4% of children up to age 17 had visited a retail health clinic or urgent care center in the previous 12 months. In 2021, that number . . .