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Dr. Stern is CEO of Practice Velocity, the leading supplier of software and electronic medical records (EMR) for urgent care centers. In addition to operating the largest billing service company for urgent care, Practice Velocity provides EMR, medical coding, online patient registration, and practice management software to more than 800 urgent care centers in 49 states. With over 20 years experience in urgent care medicine, he is a partner in Physicians Immediate Care, operating 20 urgent care centers in Illinois, Oklahoma, & Nebraska. He is board-certified in internal medicine and is a certified professional coder (CPC). He speaks frequently on the topics of urgent care strategy, coding, billing and managed care contracting. He has been listed four times in the Castle-Connolly publication of Top Doctors in America. He has received a Lifetime Membership to the Urgent Care Association of America and served as a founding Director on the Board of Directors of UCAOA. You can read his regular column the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine. He welcomes your questions and comments about any aspect of urgent care medicine.

Friday, April 15, 2011

32-Clinic Urgent Care Chain Sold

Urgent Care News sent out a Newsflash yesterday about Florida Governor Rick Scott’s sale of his shares of Solantic, the Jacksonville-based chain of urgent care clinics he founded in 2001. Although news reports credit the deal to increasing questions regarding conflicts-of-interest with healthcare changes the governor is trying to pass, the Urgent Care News article illustrates this sale is yet another in a growing trend of large investment companies pushing their way into urgent care.

Click here to read the Urgent Care News article.
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