WHAT HEALTH CARE REFORM MEANS TO YOU

Monday, April 5th, 2010

What Health Care Reform Means for You

If you have:

Health insurance through your employer

Very little will change. Some new benefits include no lifetime dollar limits on policies, elimination of co-pays for some preventive care, and older children may stay on their parents’ policies until age 26.

Individual/family insurance you purchase on your own

You will be able to purchase health insurance through a state “exchange” starting in 2014. Although the exchanges have yet to be designed, they are intended to provide more affordable and subsidized individual and small business plans.

Medicare coverage

The “doughnut hole” in prescription drug benefits you currently receive will be gradually filled. If you have a gap in coverage this year, you will receive a $250 rebate check.

Medicaid (Healthy Options) coverage

Medicaid coverage is expanded to cover more people. Adults without children will be eligible for the first time in 2014.

No coverage

You may be eligible for expanded enrollment in Medicaid. By 2014 you will be able to purchase affordable coverage in an “exchange.” Those who do not purchase coverage in 2014 will pay a penalty.

Amazing Care – HIGHLY EXPERIENCED BOARD-CERTIFIED PROVIDERS

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

At Advantage Urgent Care we advocate “walk in for amazing care.” So what does amazing care look and feel like?

The dictionary defines amazing as “causing great surprise or sudden wonder.” If you think about it, what is appropriate for a patient to be surprised about unless it was extraordinarily positive or wonderful in a way that they had yet to experience medically.

Over the next 11 weeks I will be outlining how we at Advantage Urgent Care define Amazing Care. This first edition is dedicated to our Providers.

When you are cared for by our physicians and physician assistants you can be assured they are highly experienced board-certified and board-eligible providers. In fact a majority of our physicians have multiple years experience as emergency room doctors. There is virtually nothing they have yet to see or treat. When you or a family member are guests at Advantage Urgent Care, know that you are being cared for by “the right medical professionals, who are trained medically and in customer service, to treat your urgent care needs quickly and professionally.”

Paul Wright, Ed.D.

Welcome to Advantage Urgent Care

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Welcome to our blog of information that we hope you’ll find useful.

Advantage Urgent Care is a licensed medical provider serving
patients in the Phoenix metropolitan area for non-life-threatening illnesses
and injuries – including the flu, swine flu, cuts, scrapes, injuries,
strains and sprains.

Some of the benefits you’ll find with Advantage Urgent Care include:

Family-friendly environment
Occupational medicine
Board-certified medical providers
Most insurance accepted
Insurance not necessary
Onsite X-rays and prescriptions
Physicals for sports, school and work
Arizona’s flu headquarters
Convenient web check-in

Walk in for amazing care!  Thank you for visiting!

Advantage Urgent Care 602-530-6189