{"id":11424,"date":"2018-09-09T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11424"},"modified":"2018-09-06T13:45:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T17:45:28","slug":"more-patients-are-choosing-urgent-care-center-instead-of-emergency-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11424","title":{"rendered":"More patients are choosing urgent care center instead of emergency room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">In a recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, more patients are choosing to treat low-acuity conditions in lower-cost urgent care centers and retail clinics, decreasing demand for emergency department services. However, the shift away from emergency department didn\u2019t translate to lower overall utilization. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcaredive.com\/news\/more-patients-sidestepping-ed-for-low-acuity-problems\/531679\/\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7802\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, more patients are choosing to treat low-acuity conditions in lower-cost urgent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11425,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11424\/revisions\/11425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}