Clinical ArticlesIsolated Sternal Fractures After Trampoline Falls in Children: A Case Series
Web ExclusiveA New 4-Year-Old Patient with Fever and Sore Throat After a COVID Exposure
Case ReportsAn Atypical Cause of Fever and Confusion: A Case Report of Delayed Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis
Practice ManagementSupervising Doctors May be Held Liable in Malpractice Suits
Images Challenge47-Year-Old With Left Hip Pain
Clinical ArticlesIsolated Sternal Fractures After Trampoline Falls in Children: A Case Series
Isolated Sternal Fractures After Trampoline Falls in Children: A Case Series
By Ashley Blachford / March 1, 2024
Urgent Message: Isolated sternal fractures in children can occur from relatively minor trauma, such as a trampoline fall, and patients…
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Web ExclusiveA New 4-Year-Old Patient with Fever and Sore Throat After a COVID Exposure
A New 4-Year-Old Patient with Fever and Sore Throat After a COVID Exposure
By Ashley Blachford / January 24, 2023
Bradley L. Laymon, PA-C, CPC, CEMC PRESENTATION A mother brings in her 4-year-old, who has never visited your urgent care…
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Case ReportsAn Atypical Cause of Fever and Confusion: A Case Report of Delayed Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis
An Atypical Cause of Fever and Confusion: A Case Report of Delayed Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis
By Ashley Blachford / March 1, 2024
Francesca Cocchiarale, DO; Alexa Bailey, MS-3; Michael Weinstock, MD Urgent Message: Pulmonary embolism can be frequently missed as a diagnosis…
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Practice ManagementSupervising Doctors May be Held Liable in Malpractice Suits
Supervising Doctors May be Held Liable in Malpractice Suits
By Ashley Blachford / March 1, 2024
Urgent Message: A supervising physician can be named in a lawsuit for malpractice against a nurse practitioner or physician assistant,…
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Images Challenge47-Year-Old With Left Hip Pain
47-Year-Old With Left Hip Pain
By Ashley Blachford / December 19, 2023
One afternoon, a 47-year-old man presents in the urgent care with left hip pain that he says just started in…
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Urgent Care News
Rapid Viral Tests Best When They Inform Treatment Decisions
A recent review suggests that the routine application of rapid respiratory viral tests in emergency …
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Couple Locked in Urgent Care Center in Texas
A couple in Texas spent more than an hour locked in an urgent care center …
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Free COVID-19 Antiviral No Longer Free
In December 2023, drug manufacturer Pfizer changed its strategic sales approach for nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (Paxlovid) by …
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Patients, Clinicians Have Similar Accuracy With Interpreting At-Home COVID Tests
When patients use at-home tests to check for COVID-19, their results are similar to results …
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Could the US Lose Its Measles Elimination Status?
Rising measles outbreaks in the United States have raised concerns about whether the country is …
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Web Exclusive Articles
A New 4-Year-Old Patient with Fever and Sore Throat After a COVID Exposure
Bradley L. Laymon, PA-C, CPC, CEMC PRESENTATION A mother brings in her 4-year-old, who has …
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Code Case Files: An Established Adult Male Patient with 2 Days of COVID-Like Symptoms
Bradley L. Laymon, PA-C, CPC, CEMC PRESENTATION A 47-year-old established male patient presented after 2 …
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What Qualifies Someone to Take X-Rays in the Urgent Care Center? It All Depends on Where You’re Located
X-rays are high on the list of services patients expect urgent care centers to provide …
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Repairing Parallel Lacerations in the Urgent Care Center
Urgent message: Parallel lacerations or those that simply occur in close proximity pose a unique …
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Getting the Most Out of Your Urgent Care Google Ads Budget in 2022
Urgent message: As urgent care volume has dropped from pandemic highs, the average cost per …
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Clinical Articles
Isolated Sternal Fractures After Trampoline Falls in Children: A Case Series
Urgent Message: Isolated sternal fractures in children can occur from relatively minor trauma, such as a trampoline fall, and patients …
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Updates in Weight Management Pharmacotherapy: Essential Knowledge For The Urgent Care Clinician
Urgent Message: As more glucagon-like peptide-1 and gastric inhibitory polypeptide agonists are prescribed, it is important for clinicians to have …
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Case Report of Renal Cell Carcinoma Presenting to Urgent Care with Indolent Back Pain: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Urgent message: Although back pain is often due to benign etiologies, symptoms of progressive pain, weakness, and near syncope in …
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Charting with Purpose: Precision Strategies for Accurate Coding and Malpractice Defense
Jeff Willis, MD Urgent Message: A well-told story explaining your thought process during a patient encounter will contain all the …
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Practice Management Articles
Supervising Doctors May be Held Liable in Malpractice Suits
Urgent Message: A supervising physician can be named in a lawsuit for malpractice against a nurse practitioner or physician assistant, …
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Which IV Infusion Services are Most Appropriate for Urgent Care?
Urgent Message: When offered as a medical service consistent with an urgent care center’s branding, IV infusion services can enable …
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Thinking Outside the Box to Bring Urgent Care to the Patient
Alan A. Ayers, MBA, Macc Urgent Message: Urgent care is a consumer-driven phenomenon, and physician entrepreneurs continue to evolve the …
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Considerations for Holiday Hours in Urgent Care
Alan A. Ayers, MBA, MAcc Urgent Message: Whether an urgent care center should be open 365 days per year or …
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CASE REPORTS
An Atypical Cause of Fever and Confusion: A Case Report of Delayed Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis
Francesca Cocchiarale, DO; Alexa Bailey, MS-3; Michael Weinstock, MD Urgent Message: Pulmonary embolism can be frequently …
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Incomplete Kawasaki Disease Clinically Diagnosed From Urgent Care: A Case-Report-Based Review
Urgent Message: The accurate and prompt diagnosis of Kawasaki disease depends on clinicians’ familiarity with the …
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Case Report of Renal Cell Carcinoma Presenting to Urgent Care with Indolent Back Pain: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Urgent message: Although back pain is often due to benign etiologies, symptoms of progressive pain, weakness, …
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Quadriceps Pyomyositis After Aspiration of Patellar Bursitis: A Case Report
Urgent Message: Deep tissue infections are possible considerations for diabetic patients presenting to urgent care with …
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Does This Finger Laceration Need Immediate Vascular Surgery Consultation? Perspectives Based on an Urgent Care Patient Experience
Patrick O’Malley, MD Urgent Message: Clinicians can apply best-practice care principles for lacerations of the hand …
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HEALTH LAW
Changing an Employee from Full-Time to Part-Time Status
Urgent message: Whether due to reduced staffing needs or employee preference, some employees in urgent care …
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Are Urgent Care Providers Liable if They Don’t Test Patients for COVID?
Click Here to download the PDF. Urgent message: As the severity of newer strains of SARS-CoV-2 …
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Who Can Take X-Rays in an Urgent Care Center?
Urgent message: Given that x-ray is a differentiating feature of “urgent care” and the current challenges …
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What Qualifies Someone to Take X-Rays in the Urgent Care Center? It All Depends on Where You’re Located
X-rays are high on the list of services patients expect urgent care centers to provide when …
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Avoiding Defamation Lawsuits in Urgent Care
Urgent message: People are unlikely to trust their healthcare to a provider with a sullied reputation, …
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CLINICAL CHALLENGES
42-Year-Old Soccer Player With Knee Injury
A 42-year-old man presents to urgent care with knee pain. He says the pain started when he was playing soccer, …
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38-Year-Old With Rash After Heating Pad Use
A 38-year-old woman presented to urgent care for rash that had developed on her trunk 2 months prior. On examination, …
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55-Year-Old Male With Dyspnea
A 55-year-old male with a history of heart failure presents to the urgent care with dyspnea. An ECG is obtained …
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53-Year-Old Female With Fatigue
A 53-year-old female with no significant past medical history presents to the urgent care with progressive fatigue for several weeks …
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12-Year-Old With Facial Trauma
A 12- year-old male presents to urgent care with his mother complaining of facial pain. The patient experienced a trip-and-fall …
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OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE
Does Concentra’s New Acquisition Foreshadow a New Era for UC and Occ Med?
On the surface, it seems like the kind of event that has become commonplace in urgent care: A large, national …
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Update: The COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Many Businesses Is Off—Again
Just when you thought you had clarity on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s mandate to vaccinate workers at businesses …
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That Vaccine Mandate for Private Businesses That Was Called Off? It’s on Again—and the Clock Is Ticking
The Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s plan to require employers with 100 or more workers to institute a COVID-19 vaccine …
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Your Occ Med Clients Need Your Support with the New COVID-19 ETS—Immediately
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration just issued an Emergency Temporary Standard intended to protect workers from getting infected with …
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More People Are Trudging Off to Work on Site. Do You Know Who’s at Greatest Risk for COVID-19?
While some employers are content to maintain remote or hybrid work situations for their workers, either because of strong stances …
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Revenue Cycle Management
What is a False Claim?
Benjamin Barlow, MD; Phyllis Dobberstein, CPC, CPMA, CPCO, CEMC, CCC The False Claims Act (FCA) is a federal statute enacted in …
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Nine Recurring Coding Pitfalls for Urgent Care Clinicians to Avoid
Brad Laymon, PA, CPC, CEMC Over my career as a physician assistant, I have delved extensively into the intricacies of …
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How to Survive a Payer Review
Benjamin Barlow, MD; Phyllis Dobberstein, CPC, CPMA, CPCO, CEMC, CCC One of the biggest challenges facing urgent care operators is increased …
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The Challenges of Billing Out-of-Network
Phyllis Dobberstein, CPC, CPMA, CPCO, CEMC, CCC One of the biggest challenges for an urgent care is billing insurance as …
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ICD-10-CM: What’s New for 2024
Phyllis Dobberstein, CPC, CPMA, CPCO, CEMC, CCC, is RCM Compliance Manager, Experity With the fall season comes all the coding …
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DEVELOPING DATA
How Urgent Care is Becoming More Corporatized
In 2023, the urgent care industry added 1,057 de novo locations—new sites that did not previously exist. But these new …
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Robust Urgent Care De Novo Growth Continues
The urgent care industry continues to add de novo centers, according to data from Experity and National Urgent Care Realty …
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Flu Season Begins For Urgent Care
In late November, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted that the number of healthcare visits related to …
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Urgent Care Scope of Services
Same-day ambulatory healthcare services are the hallmark of urgent care (UC). Because UC clinicians care for a wide range of …
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Telehealth Adoption Rises Steadily in Urgent Care
Consumers have come to expect a level of convenience from the healthcare system that parallels the digital innovations they enjoy …
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Abstracts in Urgent Care
Abstracts in Urgent Care – March 2024
Omicron versus Flu & RSV – Which is Most Dangerous for Children? Take Home Point: In this study, hospitalization rates …
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Abstracts in Urgent Care – February 2024
Predicting Which Patients Need an X-Ray Before Attempting Shoulder Reduction Take Home Point: In this study, the Fresno-Québec Rule showed …
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Abstracts in Urgent Care January 2024
Can Artificial Intelligence Be Used as a Behavioral Health Tool for Adolescents? Take Home Point: Conversational Artificial Intelligence (CAI) may …
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Abstracts in Urgent Care December 2023
Blood Pressure Monitoring—Cuff Size Matters Take Home Point: The use of an inaccurately sized automated blood pressure (BP) cuff resulted …
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Abstracts in Urgent Care November 2023
What Should We Do with the Nail? Nailbed Repair in Children Take Home Point: After nail bed repair, discarding the …
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Our Success in Urgent Care is Defined by How We Play Our ‘Greatest Hits’
Recently one evening, I meandered into a bar on iconic 6th Street in Austin, Texas— America’s epicenter for live music …
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‘What Happens If We Do Nothing?’ Is Still the Right Question
Joshua Russell, MD, MSc, FACEP, FCUCM “It only hurts right here,” Rich told me, pointing to a tender spot on …
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Broader Issues Surround ‘Work Note Seeking’
Joshua Russell, MD, MSc, FCUCM, FACEP Who among us has worked a single urgent care (UC) shift without at least …
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What Happens If We Do Nothing?
Joshua Russell, MD, MSc, FCUCM, FACEP In its most modern form, medicine revolves around action. We are trained as clinicians …
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Analogy: A Powerful and Underutilized Bedside Tool
Joshua Russell, MD, MSc, FCUCM, FACEP Click Here to download the article PDF Sophie was back with another one of …
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