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Chief says CVS’s clinics can help control costs

By D.C. Denison

 |  Globe Staff  

  June 05, 2012

CVS Caremark Corp. plans to open hundreds more in-store clinics as a way to provide basic medical services and help control the nation’s health care costs, the Woonsocket, R.I., company’s chief executive told a group of Boston-area business leaders Tuesday. Larry J. Merlo said the company already operates about 600 of its MinuteClinics — including about 30 in Massachusetts — and wants to expand the number to 1,000 in the next few years. But if Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino has his way, none of the new MinuteClinics will be in the city.

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