Use of Retail Clinic by Commercially Insured Increases 10X in Two Years

In 2009, people with commercial health insurance made 6.5 visits per 1,000 to retail clinics. That utilization represents a ten-fold increase since 2007, when the rate was 0.6 visits per 1,000 per month. These were the findings of a report, titled “Trends in Retail Clinic Use Among the Commercially Insured,” by J. Scott Ashwood, MA; Rachel O. Reid, BA; Claude M. Setodji, Ph.D.; Ellerie Weber, Ph.D.; Martin Gaynor, Ph.D.; and Ateev Mehrotra, M.D., MPH. For the purposes of this analysis, a retail clinic was defined as providing a limited set of . . .