Questions for Dr. Stern
About Your Urgent Care Center
66. The agency that I work for is located in North Carolina. We presentaly provide Hospice, Home Health and Mental Health Service. My question pertains to opening of and Urgent Care facility. When do we begin with the licensing/permiting process. We have RNs and LPNs and two Dr. consultants but owners are not Physicians. Where do we start?
If you will not have physician owners, the biggest issue is generally setting up a medical management company to own the centers.
Permitting is generally an issue of local codes. You will need a location, and your architect should help guide you through this.
Unless things have changed recently, I don’t believe that urgent care facilities are required to get licensed by the state of NC. You will need to apply to get a CLIA-waved certificate.
We are very familiar with billing and startup issues in North Carolina, and we see North Carolina as one of the best states for urgent care centers. We would be honored to be a part of your success in urgent care.
Practice Velocity does charting, coding and billing for urgent care centers throughout the USA. The industry response has been so enthusiastic that more urgent care centers (over 500 urgent care centers in 42 states) now use Practice Velocity for charting and coding than any other system.
Our experience tells us that, Practice Velocity will exceed your expectations with the:
- fastest charting,
- easiest implementation, and
- most return on investment.
Satisfied urgent care colleagues are our number one source of new clients. We will work hard to transform you and your staff into another glowing reference for our products and support.
Many customers choose to use our sister company PV Billing to do their billing. Other customers use the system to process their own billing. This is your choice.
The owners of Practice Velocity also operate ten urgent care centers in Illinois and Oklahoma. We would be delighted to host your team for a full-day tour of our urgent care centers. Over 300 urgent care professional toured our urgent care operations in 2007. 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
Please do call and schedule a visit to our urgent care headquarters (only one hour from O’Hare Airport) or to schedule a web demo/discussion of our products and services. Ask for Dana (ext 2051) or Tina (ext 2052)
