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Urgent Care Centers provide access to care when your physician can't. Urgent care visits are a benefit under insurance plans as long as you receive care at an "in-network" urgent care facility. Lots of places call themselves Urgent Care when they're not. They present themselves as "participating" providers. They are not staffed by experienced Emergency Room providers. Don't be fooled!
When in doubt, always check for an "in-network" Urgent Care Center. Why choose Statcare walk in center?
Statcare is a fully certified urgent care facility under all insurance plans. You don't need referrals from primary care physicians to be seen. You don't need prior authorizations from your insurance company either. Best of all, at Statcare, you never need an appointment to be seen. Walk in and get seen, all 7 days a week!. Statcare has on-site digital X-Ray machine. Emergency and urgent care without the wait!
How are you different from a primary care physician? How can a consumer tell the difference? Are you an Emergency Room? How is Statcare different from other places? How is Statcare different from multi-specialty medical groups in Queens and Long Island? How is Statcare different from Retail Clinics or 'Immediate Care' walk in clinics in Pharmacies? How are you different from a primary care physician? How can a consumer tell the difference? Medical offices that call themselves Urgent Care may not be certified as one nor medically equipped to take care of medical problems that need Urgent Care Medicine expertise. They will accommodate you on a walk-in basis to fill a vacancy in their schedule. Expect long wait times. Such medical offices may refuse to see children and may not be open extended hours or on holidays or weekends. They may not have X-Ray capability. They may refuse to suture lacerations or treat your child's elbow dislocation or ankle fracture or other common urgencies as they don't have the expertise required for these medical conditions. Are you an Emergency Room? How is Statcare different from other places? No. Statcare is NOT an Emergency Room. Statcare is an Urgent Care walk in clinic. Walk-in patients are 'new' patients every time and you need a unique skill-set to evaluate and treat such patients. Statcare is a true Urgent Care Center run by professionals with years of experience in urgent medical care. In fact, Statcare is the first and only stand-alone certified Urgent Care Center in Hicksville and its surrounding area.
How is Statcare different from Retail Clinics or 'Immediate Care' walk in clinics in Pharmacies? Years ago, some companies got in the business of managing their own risk by hiring their own doctors and opening centers in Queens and Long Island. The goal of these long island and queens medical groups was to align with insurance companies to keep costs down by tightly controlling referrals and service usage by their members. To cut costs incurred by the plan for ER visits by their members, these long island medical groups made sure that their patients came back to them in a "urgent/walk-in area" instead of going to a local area hospital ER. Patients however remained dissatisfied with the care services and eventually these centers had to be re-christened and their physicians were allowed to accept other patients outside of their contracted insurance companies. However, even today their contractual and capitation obligations to minimize costs remains un-changed as do the provider incentives of year-end bonuses. How is Statcare different from Retail clinics or "Immediate Care" walk in clinics in Pharmacies? Just like health plans, many retail pharmacy chains also run 'walk-in' clinics. There isn't much difference. They follow a strict and rigid protocol so as not to make clinical mistakes in patient care. Statcare professionals are highly experienced and well trained and can handle any out-of the ordinary situation. Retail clinics and immediate care clinics cannot. You either flow with the flow chart or you don't. Also, like any publicly traded company, a retail clinics' loyalty is only to it's stockholder. Statcare's loyalty is to its patients. That's the difference. When you come to get treated at Statcare, you are THE priority. Always. You can trust us with your health. Other commonly used labels for Urgent Care Centers:
What services does Statcare provide for corporations? Click on our 'Services' tab to discover the range of medical services we provide. At Statcare, we also offer on-the-job injury services to surrounding businesses and industries, hotels, restaurants, and office buildings. At Statcare, we provide a wide range of occupational medicine services, including pre-employment physicals, drug screens, and Work Comp Back-to-Work programs
FAQ's on Urgent care as compared to Emergency Room Click here to see a fox news report on Urgent Care vs. ER a. Where do hospital administrators take themselves and their families? Hospital administrators were asked this question by the Schumacher Group. In the survey, one in six hospital administrators admitted they wouldn't use their own hospital's ER should they be injured! That speaks volumes about Emergency Room overcrowding, poor service and high costs!
b. Is it true that ER waiting time are reducing every year as hospitals are becoming more and more efficient? No. It's quite the opposite. According to the CDC patients spend 3 hours or more in an Emergency Room. In fact the waiting time for non-critical visits has sky-rocketed by 33%! In NY especially this problem is further aggravated by a 20% + increase in ER visits and closure/merger of a large number of local hospitals. At Statcare you will get the same or better service than the local Hospital Emergency Room with ONE BIG EXCEPTION: You won't have to wait!
c. At Statcare, my whole family can expect to get better care than in any Emergency Room. And without the wait! Would my co-pay be less? Yes. You got it! We see everyone regardless of age. At Statcare, your co-pay would be less than half of that at any Emergency Room. In fact, your final cost of care would be a fraction of the bill you would get from a "fast-track" or an Emergency Room/Hospital-based urgent care! Small wonder then, that Consumers and Insurers love and recommend us! We know how it feels to be unwell or have an injury at an odd time. We feel your frustration about not being able to get medical care on demand - when you need it, where you need it. That's the reason we opened Statcare! You deserve better service! Come and Experience it at Statcare. It will be our pleasure if we could be of service to you.
FAQ's on ER based Fast Track or hospital based Urgent Care a. I don't have a life-threatening problem. I'd rather go to an Urgent Care Center. But I'm confused... What about those Fast Tracks and Urgent Care Tracks in the hospital Emergency Room? Won't they be cheaper and efficient? As you probably now under, Urgent Care Medicine is an offshoot of Emergency Medicine except that the care gets provided NOT in the Emergency Room but in the community itself. At Statcare, our Emergency Room Professionals bring the same expertise of an ER to deliver high quality care to you, right here in your own neighborhood! That's right - the same expertise AND much better service! Why go to an ER when you can get better service near your home. Not only will your Insurance cover it, even your personal co-pay and deductible costs will be lower! It's a win-win situation! Statcare makes medical care accessible, affordable, timely and convenient. So, unless you are having a life-threatening emergency, you do not need to rush to a local area hospital's Emergency Room only to sit there and languish for hours in the waiting room. To these Emergency Rooms, you would be just another assignment waiting to be triaged and seen.
b. What about the 'Fast Tracks' and Urgent Care inside Hospital ER's? In order to change the "feel" of the poor Emergency Room experience, many Emergency Rooms have opened up "Fast Tracks" or "Urgent Care Tracks" where they quickly triage you (marketing gimmick). They may be quicker in triaging you BUT they offer no cost savings over the traditional ER visit - nothing changes - these Fast Tracks work the same way as an ER does.
c. I don't believe that Emergency Room based Urgent care is billed just like a regular full ER visit. Is that really true? Well, don't take our word for it. Ask you insurer or the hospital finance department. Or just check that hefty "ER Bill of Services" you got the last time you were in the ER! Even though they call it 'Fast Track' or some other label, the truth is that they are using the same billing systems and the same level of ER Billing. The average ER Bill in Long Island is close to $1200! Still not convinced? Just check what your expected co-pay was for that last "Fast Track" visit - you must have easily paid $50-$75 in co-pay which is actually the co-pay for an ER visit under your Insurance plan! God help you if you have ANY deductible or don't have any insurance to cover that $1000 ER bill.
d. I don't get it - Why does a simple ER visit cost me and my Insurance company more than $1000? It's true that the traditional Emergency Room's overcharge their patients. You see, you may have health insurance, but not everyone does. And those hospitals are mandated to see everyone regardless of the ability to pay. Nationally, half of all ER services delivered by a hospital go uncompensated, according to Medicare. So, who makes up the difference? You do! Now you understand why the average ER bill in Long Island is way over the $850 average! Long Island Hospitals get to cover their costs for charity care and bad debt by inflating the charges for their patients who pay or have Insurance. Hospital executives and payers call it "cost shifting". It is an accepted practice. When you go to a Long Island Hospital Emergency Room, you ARE going to pay more (directly or indirectly through your insurance company) to help that hospital cover it's costs. It's just the way it is. And this brings us to the other big difference. Statcare doesn't do any of this cost shifting. When you come to Statcare, you are paying for yourself. There is no cost shifting. Your bills are a fifth of an Emergency Room bill! So, be smart. Don't be fooled by the relatively quick ER triage into a "fast-track" area. Any "Fast Track" option will actually end up being 4-5 times the cost of an urgent care visit with us! Even your Employer and your insurance company would rather that you NOT use an ER for a non-life-threatening emergency. Humana, a major insurer clearly warns its enrollees not to be suckered in by these high-cost, hospital-based gimmicks! No wonder Statcare is a preferred Urgent Care Center on many Insurance plans. All Urgent Care Centers are not created equal ñ so you need to be aware of the ones in NY that are labeling themselves as a 'walk-in' or an 'Urgent Care'. More on this issue in our next item. At Statcare, we offer safe and high quality medical care of non-life threatening injury or illness. We use a simple fee for service system which ends up being one fifth the cost of an emergency room visit - so even if you are paying for the service, you would pay far less and at the same time get a much higher level of personalized attention than you would receive if you were the 15th assignment waiting to be triaged. If you are someone with a minor injury you would not be on anyone's priority list to be seen right away. You would be forced to wait for hours in discomfort while overworked hospital staff focuses their attention on the sickest patients ñ car accidents, traumatic injuries and heart attacks.
Other interesting facts and quotes: Studies have shown that Urgent Care Centers typically deliver safer and higher quality medical care at less than half the cost of an Emergency Room resulting in dramatic savings to patients, employers and insurance companies. Humana, a major Health Insurance Company has on their website: "Don't Let the Urgent Care Sign Fool You! All urgent care centers are not created equal, and the difference can affect your wallet. To reduce your costs, choose a free-standing urgent care center, one that isn't located in a hospital. These facilities are well equipped to provide medical care for minor illnesses or injuries. The only difference is the location. Your co-payment and other costs could be a lot higher if you choose an urgent care center in a hospital."
Statcare walk-in clinic has been serving Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk) communities. Our patients come from Hicksville, Wantagh, Commack, Bethpage, Levittown, Hempstead, Massapequa, Plainview, Deer Park, Westbury, Syosset, Dix Hills, Bellmore, Bayville, Merrick, Melville, Oyster Bay, Huntington, Smithtown, Islip, Babylon, Seaford, Freeport, Mutton Town, Stony Brook, Brentwood, Centereach, Great Neck, Port Washington, Mineola, Roslyn, East Hills, New Hyde Park, Babylon and other Long Island communities. |
