Journal of Urgent Care Medicine

How Urgent Care Cultivates Competition in Healthcare

Urgent message: U.S. healthcare has been a monolith of inefficiency, limited access, and untenable costs for decades, due mainly to a lack of healthy competition. Today’s healthcare landscape, however, spurred by converging market forces, is rapidly evolving into a competitive marketplace, with urgent care being one of the key catalysts for this welcomed and long overdue change. Alan A. Ayers, MBA, MAcc is Vice President of Strategic Initiatives for Practice Velocity, LLC and is Practice …

Valuation of an Urgent Care Clinic

Urgent message: Despite the fact that underlying principles are the same as for other settings, it behooves the urgent care operator to consider factors unique to the urgent care arena when determining the value of the practice. By Keith Borglum, CHBC How much is your practice worth? This is a simple question with a complex answer. There are many books on the topic—and a fair amount of debate—and the answer differs depending on the particular situation …