Under the agreement, CVS and UCLA will share electronic medical record information. CVS will pay physicians a fee for their role as medical directors, which will include reviewing charts and consulting by phone when nurse practitioners have questions. The physicians won’t actually work at the clinics — MinuteClinic medical staff will refer patients to permanent primary care physicians should the need arise.
“The shortage of primary care is going to be a very important problem we can help resolve,” the president of CVS’s MinuteClinic division, Andrew Sussman, said in the report.
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