| Many mobile urgent care practitioners offer services | | | | call providers are able to spend with patients. Because |
| that can save patients, insurance providers and other | | | | mobile practitioners tend to be less hurried, patients are |
| corporate entities significantly off the cost of such | | | | better able to have their questions answered, and the |
| medical services. Staffed by board certified | | | | evaluation in many cases may be more thorough. |
| emergency physicians and their assistants, these | | | | Most urgent care practitioners maintain easy telephone |
| providers offer comprehensive, efficient and highly | | | | access anytime after the house call visit so that if |
| convenient mobile urgent care brought to the patient | | | | problems arise, rapid troubleshooting of the situation is |
| wherever they are, whether at home, in hotel room, at | | | | available thus further enhancing convenience and cost |
| work or elsewhere. | | | | savings. Medications dispensed by urgent care |
| When utilizing these mobile services, patients may | | | | providers are priced comparable to pharmacy prices, |
| avoid the discomfort of travel, sitting in public waiting | | | | and in some cases are much lower. For most foreign |
| rooms, further return travel and stopping to wait for | | | | travelers with travel insurance, reimbursement for |
| pharmacy prescriptions to be filled. Because patients | | | | services will be 100%. For domestic travelers with |
| can rest in the comfort of familiar surroundings while | | | | PPO insurance policies reimbursement may be up to |
| awaiting house call services, stress is lowered, and the | | | | 80%, is considered out-of-network, and based on the |
| recovery process can, in many cases, begin sooner. In | | | | unmet annual deductible. |
| addition to these benefits of house call services, the | | | | HMO's potentially reimburse for house call services up |
| cost of a physician or other practitioner visit is usually | | | | to 100% when locally contracted medical services and |
| much lower than emergency department care. In | | | | facilities are not available. While primary care house call |
| some cases the fees may be less than 20% of the | | | | services may be cost effective in cases where the |
| cost or ER care. | | | | patient is mobility challenged, mobile urgent care |
| House call service fees are generally very reasonable | | | | medical services are usually highly cost effective |
| because the ER facility fee and other clinic fees are | | | | compared to all other options, especially that of |
| eliminated. The cost of procedures is usually much less | | | | emergency department care. These mobile medical |
| than the ER and many clinics too. Other advantages to | | | | services are bringing the humanity back into medical |
| house call services include the excess time that house | | | | care. |