Questions for Dr. Stern
About Your Urgent Care Center
77. I am thinking about changing my 8-month-old internal medicine clinic into an urgent care center, looking to tap into my experience working as an ED physician. I am looking for the best assistance in terms of ideas/expert advice in areas like needed tools, equipments and medications.
Thanks for contacting Practice Velocity. Converting an internal medicine practice into an urgent care center might make sense for several reasons, including increasing patient flow, improving access for the community to healthcare, and building personal equity in a successful business.
Practice Velocity is involved in helping urgent care centers in several ways. Let me review several of our affiliated businesses (all owned by the same three urgent care physicians):
- Practice Velocity: software solutions (used in over 530 urgent care centers) for marketing, charting, coding, billing, occupational medicine protocols and collections.
- National Med Network: has performed consultant to over 50 startup urgent care centers. Offers pro-forma help, purchasing advice, floor plan review, and a checklist of over 1,500 items to complete in the startup of an urgent care center.
- PV Billing: with over 50 billers, we provide full-service billing services and managed care contracting for urgent care centers in many states.
- Physicians Immediate Care: We have operated urgent care centers for over twenty years, and our twelve-clinic network is the foundation and launching pad for all of our other businesses. We have done one joint-venture clinic and are actively developing a framework for (but are not yet offering) franchising opportunities.
With over 550 urgent care centers in 46 states, Practice Velocity now serves more urgent care centers for charting and coding than all other systems combined.
Our Guarantee: Practice Velocity will exceed your expectations with the:
- fastest charting,
- easiest implementation, and
- most return on investment (usually over $10 increased revenue per patient).
Thirty-Day Trial: Try PiVoTs for charting and coding for 30-days. If we don’t deliver, simply stop using the product and you don’t pay a thing. No questions asked.
We would be delighted to host your team for a full-day tour of our headquarters. Feel free to call and schedule a visit to our urgent care headquarters (only one hour from O’Hare Airport). Over 300 urgent care professionals took advantage of tours of our urgent care operations last year. During the tour, we outline our entire operation, including:
- Reception
- Marketing
- Site selection
- Added services
- Occupational medicine
- Patient flow
- Whatever else you wish to review
To schedule a demo or phone call or to schedule a tour of our headquarters, call 888-357-4209 and ask for Dana (ext. 2051).
