Interesting findings from the latest study from FAIR Health:
- From 2007 to 2016, urgent care centers showed an increase in claim lines of 1,725 percent—a growth rate more than seven times that of ER claim lines (229 percent) in the same period;
In retail clinics and urgent care centers in 2016, acute respiratory infections, such as the common cold, were the number one diagnostic category—but in telehealth, mental health-related diagnoses were the number one diagnostic category;
- Across all places of service studied in 2016, more claim lines were submitted for women than men in every adult age group;
- In 2016, the median charge for a 30-minute new patient office visit (CPT®1 code 99203) ranged from $294 in an office to $242 in an urgent care center to $109 in a retail clinic;
- From 2007 to 2016, claim lines for ASCs increased more in rural (127 percent) than urban (95 percent) areas; and
- The age group 31 to 40 years accounted for the greatest percent of claim lines among patients using urgent care centers (18 percent),
but among those using telehealth, the peak age groups were 41 to 50 and 51 to 60 years (each 19 percent).
Read the full report: FH Medical Price Index and FH Healthcare Indicators–white paper