The Pressure to Keep Prices High at a Walk-in Clinic

IT would be difficult today to be connected to medicine as either a provider or a consumer and not be aware of the existence of free-standing ambulatory care centers. Their usual habitat is along a suburban commercial strip, and their presence is generally announced by a well-lit sign displaying a hyphenated medical name, corporate-logo style. The ambulatory care center, known to much of the public as the "walkin clinic," is less well known to much of the medical community, perhaps because of its newness and the tendency of doctors and their families to visit their colleagues' well-established offices.I intend . . .