Check up before you check out: Retail clinics and emergency room use

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Retail clinics are an innovation that has the potential to improve competition in health care markets. We use the universe of emergency room (ER) visits in New Jersey from 2006-2014 to examine the impact of retail clinics on ER usage. We find significant effects of retail clinics on ER visits for both minor and preventable conditions; Residents residing close to an open clinic are 4.1-12.3 percent less likely to use an ER for these conditions. Our estimates suggest annual cost savings from reduced ER usage of over $70 million if retail clinics were made readily available across New Jersey.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2017-11

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: Gesundheitsversorgung ; Gesundheitsmarkt ; Patienten ; Krankheit ; Konsumentenverhalten ; New Jersey ; USA

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Alexander, Diane ; Currie, Janet M. ; Schnell, Molly
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
• (where): Chicago, IL
• (when): 2017

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/200601
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET