National Med Network: Urgent Care Start-Up Consultants

With its expert urgent care consultants, National Med Network enables startup urgent centers to maximize and speed success. Joining the bargaining power of over 500 urgent care centers in its urgent care group purchasing organization (GPO), NMN, also, negotiates tremendous discounts for its members on medical supplies and equipment. Its expert consultants include:

• John Koehler, MD: twenty years of experience and CEO of a chain of urgent care centers
• Patrice Pash, RN: over ten years of nursing and consulting in every aspect of urgent care
• Monica Klosa: Billing Director, Physicians Immediate Care (previously a 250-physician multi-specialty group)

Unified Health Services: Workers Compensation Billing Specialists

Urgent care centers and occupational medicine clinics use Practice Velocity Management (PVM) with Unified Health Services (America's largest biller of workers compensation services) to receive services available nowhere else.

• At patient registration PVM sends UHS an instantaneous, electronic request for authorization of treatment
• Electronic billing of workers compensation service each evening
• Electronic transfer of all medical records each evening
• Guaranteed payment of all workers compensation services at 60-66 days after date of service
• One single weekly electronic EOB for all workers compensation services

McKesson

A strategic partner of Practice Velocity, McKesson Corporation is the leading provider of supply, information and care management products and services designed to reduce the cost and improve the quality of healthcare. From the user-friendly PVM system, users obtain:

• Electronic billing
• Electronic remittance
• Statement mailing

Urgent Care Association if America (UCAOA)

Practice Velocity is a proud founding Platinum Sponsor of the Urgent Care Association of America, the largest organization of urgent care centers in the USA. Urgent care centers benefit from UCAOA in multiple ways.

• The annual national convention of urgent care centers
• Annual fall mini-conference on starting an urgent care center and advanced urgent care coding
• Development of fellowship training in urgent care medicine
• An urgent care web forum for discussing questions and issues
• Advice and help with starting new urgent care centers
• Promoting public policy favorable to urgent care centers

Physicians Immediate Care

Practice Velocity benefits from its close partnership with Physicians Immediate Care, a nine-center urgent care provider in Bartlesville, Oklahoma and in Rockford, Loves Park, Machesney Park, Belvidere, Joliet, and Chicago, Illinois. The charting, coding and billing products of Practice Velocity owe their functionality and ease of use to the extensive testing in this busy real-life setting. Why is this?

• Initial ideas for products come directly from urgent care physicians, nurses and administrators
• All products are rigorously beta-tested in a busy urgent care setting
• Products are revised with immediate feedback from real-life use
• Urgent care center users can address questions directly to their counterparts in this urgent care center
• PIC works with the University of Illinois to offer a post-graduate training fellowship for physicians, who desire specialty training in urgent care medicine

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