Merchant Medicine helps hospital systems and large physician groups understand the emerging market for alternative site healthcare delivery, such as retail and employer clinics.  The company provides structured approaches to strategic decision making, operations and rollout planning, and technology infrastructure.

Current growth curves won’t bring us to 6,000 retail clinics by 2011.  There are three major factors affecting growth that every hospital system and physician group should pay attention to.

By the Numbers:
Total retail clinics on November 1: 1104

Total retail clinics on December 1: 1135

Net growth since November 1: 31

News

- $1,000 deductibles the norm in 2008 and what that means to retail clinics

- Take Care opens in new markets and will finish the year with between 320 and 330 clinics.

- QuickHealth cuts back in California

Charts:

- Clinics by Operator showing net increases

- Clinics by Operator and State

- Clinics by Top-100 Metro Areas

- Hospital System Operators (now comprising 113 clinics in 18 states

- Clinics by Retail Host and State

- Alphabetical Listing of Operators and Web Sites