Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Community Health Systems is the latest for-profit health system to invest in urgent care, following peers like HCA and Tenet.

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Health Care Dive

MAY 19, 2023

The purchase, which includes clinics in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Houston and El Paso, will boost the for-profit health system’s urgent care footprint.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Urgent care visits are lower revenue, so the shift in mix had an unfavorable impact on total revenue per visit. Amwell's revenue was down 1% year over year to $62.2 million, lower than analyst expectations.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 4, 2022

The hospital operator continues to double down on the Florida market where it has invested $3 billion in new hospitals and facility renovations over the past three years.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 18, 2023

HCA Healthcare acquiring 41 Texas urgent care centers from FastMed dmuoio Thu, 05/18/2023 - 13:39

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Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The nonprofit insurer said it would focus on bringing the clinics up to pre-pandemic standards after suffering staffing shortages.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 12, 2023

Urgent care center chain FastMed has signed another deal handing off many of its Southwest locations to a health system buyer. Word that FastMed is selling off 26 Arizona urgent cares to partner HonorHealth comes just months after the chain sold 41 of its Texas locations to HCA Healthcare.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 23, 2023

Zocdoc adds urgent care centers to its platform, citing growing demand agliadkovskaya Tue, 05/23/2023 - 11:40

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p3care

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Giving a miss to urgent care medical billing or compromising over the urgent care services could be a reason. Let’s get familiar with urgent care and the influence of urgent care profit margins on a provider’s financial status. Why Consider Urgent Care Profit Margin in Billing?

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HIT Consultant

MAY 16, 2024

What You Should Know: – athenahealth , a leading provider of healthcare software, unveils athenaOne for Women’s Health and athenaOne for Urgent Care. – The new specialty solutions address the specific needs of Women’s Health and urgent care, empowering them to deliver exceptional patient care.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 29, 2024

The cuts will affect urgent care locations, primary and specialty care clinics, and infusion centers, as well as office and remote workers.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 22, 2023

Monte Sandler, COO of Experity Over the past several years, urgent care centers nationwide have opened their doors to millions of patients in need of COVID-19 testing and treatment, driving an increase in daily patient visit volumes and new, challenging patient care demands.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 6, 2024

A South Florida-based academic medical center, Memorial operates six hospitals, including the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital; numerous primary, urgent and 24/7 care facilities; a health specialty center; and a nursing home. Notably, the service was successfully launched just two months later, beginning on January 17, 2023.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Hundreds of Allina Health physicians have voted in favor of unionizing, creating what their representation believes to be the largest collection of unionized private-sector physicians in the countr | Primary and urgent care clinicians' 325-200 vote was announced late last week and follows another in-favor unionization push by Allina Health inpatient (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 6, 2023

Baylor Scott & White Health (BSW) is adding dozens of Texas urgent care clinics to its network thanks to a newly announced deal with NextCare Urgent Care. |

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 10, 2023

LAS VEGAS—Pharmacy retail giant Walgreens plans to roll out virtual healthcare services later this month for common health needs like urgent care, birth control and seasonal allergies.

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 25, 2021

Outpatient revenues fell 2% in July from the month prior, suggesting patients might again be delaying non-urgent care due to virus concerns.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 1, 2024

News this week that Walmart is shuttering all 51 health cen | Many digital health leaders say recent moves by Walmart and Optum to exit telehealth are not a signal that the telehealth era is over but that the virtual care market is moving away from commoditized models like virtual urgent care.

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Home Health Care

JULY 3, 2024

The senior care company Lifespark has been building out its value-based care model for years. Now, it has added in-home urgent care, a key service line for a company taking on upside and downside risk. The urgent care service line will be added to Lifespark COMPLETE, Lifespark’s value-based population health business.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2022

FSH Virtual Primary Care is available via app, website or phone to help improve members’ health by delivering whole-person, digital-first care. It includes three key care components: – 24/7 access to urgent care (telemedicine) for episodic, non-emergent issues.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 3, 2025

Ardent Health is making good on its ambitions to grow its footprint in ambulatory care through acquisitions. The for-profit system kicked off 2025 by buying 18 urgent care clinics across New Mexico and Oklahoma from NextCare Urgent Care.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 22, 2024

From providing free urgent care via video consultations to around 500 Victorians per day, the VVED now targets to accommodate over 1,000 persons a day, based on a media release. VVED to double capacity Australia's first virtual ED, the Victorian Virtual Emergency Department (VVED), is also set to be expanded.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Cigna Healthcare, the health benefits division of The Cigna Group, has launched an E-Treatment option through MDLIVE by Evernorth Beginning this month, Cigna members can connect for urgent care from board-certified doctors without any direct interaction via phone or video.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 27, 2023

"In addition, we could use the device to enhance other video visit workflows like that in schools or an urgent care setting for patient overflow," he noted. " Baptist Health also uses the devices for remote on-demand urgent care. "And the vendor plans on adding AI to their tool. "Earache at 9 p.m.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 2, 2023

Missouri's $10 billion health system merger, HCA Healthcare's urgent care pickups and more merger and acquisition news from the month of May.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 2, 2024

Primary and urgent care providers within HCA Healthcare’s network now have the option to refer their patients to Talkiatry’s full-time psychiatrists from within their electronic health record thank | The integration, which is live across the "vast majority" of HCA's systems, allows primary and urgent care physicians to quickly refer (..)

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Healthcare It News

MAY 4, 2023

More residential aged care residents in Western Sydney can now access an IT-enabled urgent care service by the New South Wales government following its expansion. It was later expanded to support residential aged care facilities in April last year.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Clintel to power HEAL Urgent Care's upcoming Newcastle site Clintel Systems has been chosen to provide an end-to-end PAS, EMR, and billing and claiming solution to the soon-to-rise HEAL Urgent Care facility in Newcastle. It will also be used to handle pre-admission and post-discharge care.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The New South Wales Government has recently expanded statewide its virtual urgent care service for children. It provides them with a centralised view of all requests and resource availability and allows them to self-assign and self-dispatch to outstanding tasks or reallocate when they are busy.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Walmart has been slowly opening health centers designed to deliver primary and urgent care, labs, x-ray and diagnostics, counseling, dental, optical and hearing services. Cheryl Pegus, executive vice president at Walmart Health and Wellness, in a statement. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Outside of some tele-stroke and behavioral health virtual care there wasn't any robust programming for patients to participate with Franciscan Alliance providers through telemedicine. THE PROBLEM. Everything changed in March 2020 when COVID-19 appeared. "Franciscan Health chose to use iPads for inpatient rounding and consults.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 13, 2022

Many healthcare consumers today are disconnecting from traditional primary care, since the current experience is not meeting consumers' expectations, some industry observers say. When consumers disengage, the promise of traditional primary care cannot be realized.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The deal includes more than 70 urgent care and physical therapy clinics, which Novant said would complement its portfolio in South Carolina.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 9, 2022

These services initially used an internally developed telehealth platform with TV room kits and mobile carts as patient care connection points. Over time, it has become Intermountain's largest urgent care service and now is adding behavioral health and other care options. Expanding collaborations with other hospitals.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

According to a media release, this new service is for patients at risk of hospitalisation, including those with heart and respiratory disease and infections; aged care residents; and COVID-19 patients with chronic comorbidities. About seven million Australians, or around 28% of the total population, live in rural and remote areas.

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Healthcare Success

JULY 15, 2024

For example, FastMed Urgent Care is a multi-location urgent care business in Raleigh, NC, with three primary urgent care competitors: Duke Urgent Care, WakeMed Urgent Care, and UNC Urgent Care.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Michael Gorton is founder and CEO of Recuro Health, a virtual care company that offers Digital Medical Home, which enables members in all 50 states to virtually access comprehensive healthcare services, including virtual primary and urgent care, behavioral health, at-home lab testing, genomics testing, as well as a suite of supplemental benefits.

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