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56. We have enjoyed our initial 8 months of operation and are looking forward to opening our second clinic in August.  I am searching for data related to common industry standards for Urgent Care Centers related to Balance sheets, Profit/Loss, and other business reporting measures related to first 6 month, 1 year, 2 years, etc...  I need this info for monitoring my own center and for info needed by building owners/developers with which I'm doing business.  If you can help direct me to a resource I would be most appreciative.

It is common for an urgent care operator to invest $500-800K before seeing any profit.  Profits of up to 15-20% are seen in thriving, mature urgent care centers, each of which can generate from $2-4 million in collections. With my two partners, we operate ten urgent care centers in Illinois and Oklahoma; and we have discussed similar issues with many other urgent care centers.  Feel free to call me with questions.

 

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David Stern, MD, CPC
CEO, Practice Velocity
Partner, Physicians Immediate Care
Board Member, Urgent Care      Association of America

Dr. Stern helped design the patent-pending Practice Velocity template (PiVoT) that is now used in over 240 urgent care centers. He is board certified in internal medicine and served as Chief Resident in Internal Medicine at Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Stern received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University after completing undergraduate studies at Houghton College in Houghton, NY. Dr. Stern serves on the Board of Directors of the Urgent Care Association of America (UCAOA). A Certified Professional Coder, Dr. Stern writes articles and presents at numerous national and regional conferences on topics, including medical charting, emr, medical coding and medical practice management. With additional partners of John Koehler, MD (CEO) and Terry Buzzard, MD (Regional Medical Director), they operate the urgent care consulting firm of National Med Network and the ten clinics (in Illinois and Oklahoma) of Physicians Immediate Care.

 

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