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Retail health clinic utilization climbed by 202% by 2022

March 26, 2024 - Retail health clinic utilization soared a whopping 202 percent nationally from 2021 to 2022, signaling the continued care access shift into alternative care sites, according to the FAIR Health Healthcare Indicators and Medical Price Index reports. The report, which measured healthcare utilization in a number of alternative outpatient settings, also...

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