Journal of Urgent Care Medicine

Is Orthopedic Urgent Care Really Urgent Care?

As the urgent care industry moves forward, other specialties seek to get on board by establishing niche markets within the urgent care industry. Across the United States, subspecialty urgent care such as orthopedic urgent care, pediatric urgent care, and psychiatric urgent care, etc. are already trying to establishing themselves within the urgent care industry. As these facilities become more specialized and exclusive, the question must be asked: Are these subspecialty facilities urgent care—or just marketing …

Advantage, Urgent Care? Plans Are Already Passing ACA Losses Off on Members

Urgent care operators may have new leverage when negotiating reimbursements or appealing to cash-paying patients in North Carolina. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) says it has lost $280 million by covering residents under the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or “Obamacare”)—and in response, it’s filing for a 2017 rate increase of 18.8%. BCBSNC says higher-than-expected ED visits and orthopedic treatments (the cost of which could be greatly diminished if appropriate patients visited …

USPI Adds Urgent Care Centers by Buying CareSpot Express Healthcare

United Surgical Partners International (USPI) added 35 urgent care centers to its portfolio by virtue of acquiring CareSpot Express Healthcare, a regional provider in Florida and Tennessee. United Surgical Partners International Acquires CareSpot Express Healthcare. CareSpot will operate as a division of USPI, managing the 35 centers plus 46 MedPost Urgent Care locations owned by Tenet. No changes in brand identity are planned, currently. The deal comes on the heels of CareSpot spending much of …

How JUCM’s Editorial Process Helps Our Authors

Our authors do the hardest part of publication, researching and writing articles to add to the urgent care literature. Then once we have assessed the big-picture issues during peer review, we polish the manuscripts until they shine, through a process called copyediting. We take care to ensure that after editing, your writing still sounds like you, not like our editors. Here is a partial list of the issues that our editors address during copyediting: Grammar …

Millennials Make Cities A Better Place To Live — For Everyone

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Apple Will Attempt World Domination With Its New iPhone

Officials: NSA Accessed Phone Records Reasonable

Abstracts in Urgent Care – February 2009

Assumptions About Uninsured Patients in U.S. EDs: More Fiction Than Fact Key point: Commonly held beliefs were either debunked or found to be equally true for insured patients. Citation: Newton MF, Keims CC, Cunningham R, et al. Uninsured adults presenting to U.S. emergency departments: Assumptions vs, data. JAMA. 2008; 30: 1914-1924. Recent physician testimony before Congress asserts that uninsured and underinsured patients unnecessarily drain emergency department medical resources. To evaluate the evidence for this and …

Developing Data: December, 2008

In early 2008, UCA revamped its annual survey in conjunction with researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University with the goal of assuring that the UCA Benchmarking Committee’s efforts produced a scientifically valid report. Over the coming months in Developing Data, JUCM will present some of the findings from this landmark survey, to which 436 urgent care centers responded. In this issue: How much money do physicians who work in urgent care centers make? …