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Walmarts plans to pick up the pace with plans to add 3 more this year, mainly in the larger supercentres where it 'sells fresh food as well as general merchandise."There's a need out there in the marketplace," Thompson said, noting many new immigrants don't have a family doctor. Clinics in retail settings are similar in some respects to doctors' offices anywhere. They bill OHIP for their services and pay administrative and other expenses out of the billings.But in other ways they're quite different.Clinics in retail settings see a lot more "walk-in" patients than a typical family physician's practice. They tend to be run by third-party professional management firm that buys the equipment, hires the administrative staff and oversees the billing.The doctors pay for those services either on a percentage or flat-fee basis. The retailer generally acts as the landlord to the clinics.Doctors who join this type of clinic are often recent graduates lo

Grocery stores add medical clinics to offer one-stop shopping You can get your hair done, your photo taken and have that nasty chest cough examined all in the same place you buy bread and T-shirts. In another example of trying to become "a one-stop shop," Wal-Mart Canada Corp. says it's adding more medical clinics^ to its su-percentres. The retail giant isn't the first to lease space in its stores to groups of doctors. Wal-Mart has just 19, so far. But the retail goliath's plans to ramp up the rollout could raise the stakes for other players, particularly in the wake of recent cuts in government funding for generic drug plans.The cuts have hit pharmacies hard, especially in Ontario. Shoppers' profit and sales both declined after the province said it would cut in half the amount it pays for generic drugs for people on government plans. Wal-Mart is pushing for a greater share of the pharmacy market.But while the presence of a medical clinic in a store can boost