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...clinics in Oregon and Kansas and plans to match MinuteClinic's numbers by next year. Take Care just got $77 million, primarily from Chicago private equity firm Beecken Petty O'Keefe & Co., to help finance that expansion. RediClinic, a subsidiary of the Houston consumer medical-screening firm InterFit Health, has 11 clinics and got an injection of funds from Revolution LLC, the investment house launched last year by AOL founder Steve Case with $500 million of his online fortune...
Webster Golinkin, CEO of InterFit, dismisses the concern. Half of RediClinic's customers, he says, have no primary-care physician. It's often the clinics that refer such patients to doctors. "We're not replacing any part of the health-care system," says Golinkin. "We're complementing it." And possibly improving it. The A.A.F.P. has lately urged its members to take steps to cut wait times and generally treat patients a little more like paying customers. A little competition should help drive that message home...
...some of which are not innocuous at all." Take, for example, the CA-125 test, pitched by some entrepreneurs as a possible way to detect ovarian cancer. Studies have shown that the vast majority of positive CA-125 results are false, which is why few physicians recommend it. Yet InterFit Health in Houston still offers the CA-125 test--albeit with caveats. "We get a lot of requests," says president Laurie Lee. "People want to take charge of their health, and they don't trust their doctors to do all the health screenings they need...
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