Retail health clinics are adding treatments for chronic diseases as part of their efforts to halt losses at the clinics.
The chains are also lobbying for more insurance coverage, and angling for a place in pending health-care reform legislation, while trying to temper calls for regulations.
Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants, who typically staff the clinics, "are very important parts of health-care teams," said Dr. Ted Epperly, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
But "for them to create retail health clinics and take care of the community as if they were family physicians, that's not their skill set."
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