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Healthcare stocks tumble as Wall Street rout slams sector
Companies listed in the S&P 500 Healthcare Index fell more than 4 percent at market open.
Walgreens To Open New Clinics Staffed, Owned By Hospital Partners
In a new twist on its retail health clinic model, Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) says it will open up to 25 new retail clinics in Oregon and Washington states that will be owned and operated by a Seattle-based health system. The collaboration calls for Walgreens’ partner, Providence Health & Services, a large hospital operator in the Seattle and Portland areas, to own and operate the clinics inside Walgreen drugstores throughout the northwestern U.S. states.
“Cowboy Doctors” and Health Costs
http://harvardmagazine.com/2015/08/cowboy-doctors-and-health-costs
WHO’S DRIVING UP U.S. healthcare costs? A recent study by Harvard professors and colleagues revealed that the culprits may be “cowboy doctors”—physicians who provide intensive, unnecessary, and often ineffective patient care, resulting in wasteful spending costing as much as 2 percent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product—hundreds of billions of dollars annually
