Practice Management
Urgent care operators considering adding a concierge medicine component to their business may find rationale to do so—or not to do so—in a new position paper published in the November 10 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. The paper declines to give either a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down to direct patient contracting practices (DPCPs)—aka “concierge medicine”—but does offer perspective on the pros and cons relative to medical quality, cost, access, and other factors. On the …
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Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) is doubling down on its stake in the Las Vegas healthcare market by buying 14 urgent care centers owned there by Urgent Care Extra. The deal includes six more urgent care centers currently under development in Nevada. HCA already has four hospitals and four surgery centers in the area by virtue of owning Sunrise Health Systems. Based in Nashville, TN, HCA now operates 65 urgent care centers in 20 states, …
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When researchers at Entrepreneur magazine crunched the data in its Entrepreneur360 Performance Index, urgent care provider American Family Care (AFC) emerged as one of the top entrepreneurial companies in the U.S. The magazine cites AFC’s growth, sustainability, and ability to achieve lasting success for its inclusion in the list. AFC founder and CEO Bruce Irwin, MD says an entrepreneurial spirit is a “key facet” of the company, which tries to balance accelerating growth with a …
Read MoreIf your practice is in its first year or two of operations, it is easy to stay on top of what your patients want, the quality of their care, and the customer service they are receiving. But as your practice grows, patient counts increase, and you add more corporate clients to your occupational medicine business, you also add links to the customer service and quality care chain. Increasing the number of care providers, nurses, office …
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