Why Urgent Care is Growing So Fast

CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered. · Feb 1, 2023 · 15m · transcript

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Urgent care centers are popping up everywhere! Patient volumes ballooned 60% since before the pandemic, and investors keep eating it up.

In this episode of CareTalk, John and David explore what's behind the rapid growth of urgent care and why it matters.

Topics:

(0:53) What is urgent care?

(1:50) Urgent care growth by the numbers

(3:30) Is urgent care actually more expensive?

(4:30) How urgent care promotes more access to care

(5:50) Why is urgent care growing so much?

(11:20) Why are investors bullish on urgent care?

(13:17) Will urgent care centers undermine the…