Urgent Care
Your patient check-in
takes 16 minutes.
The visit itself might be 12.
Every urgent care visit is a new encounter — new intake, new insurance verification, new documentation, new billing. The administrative load per visit is disproportionately high. We automate the parts that don’t need a clinician so your throughput stops capping out at the front desk.
The real problems you’re living
These are the specific pains we see in urgent care centers every week.
Your front desk is the bottleneck at every peak hour.
Walk-in check-ins, phone triage, insurance verification, and patient flow management all hit your front desk simultaneously during peaks. Average check-in time runs 12–20 minutes — longer than some visits. Patients see the queue and leave.
Source: Blueprint Part 3.5Your providers spend 37% of patient encounter time on EMR documentation.
37% of the time a clinician is with a patient is spent on the EMR, not on the patient. In urgent care — where visits are already short and acute — that ratio is a throughput killer.
Source: Urgent care EMR studies; Clinic Gaps Gap 5Claim denial rates run 8–15% because eligibility isn’t verified in real time.
Every urgent care visit is a new episode. There’s no “established patient” shortcut. Manual eligibility verification fails or skips under peak load, and the denials hit weeks later when there’s nothing to do about them.
Source: Blueprint Part 3.5Self-pay price transparency is now a regulatory requirement — and most UCs can’t deliver it.
Urgent cares are required to offer price transparency for self-pay patients, but most practices can’t generate an accurate estimate at check-in because the pricing lives in a system no one can access in real time.
Source: Blueprint Part 3.5Duplicate patient records pile up because walk-ins happen faster than verification.
The same patient walking in three times can end up as three records if the identity verification step gets skipped under pressure. Every duplicate is a future billing error and a broken care continuity.
Source: Clinic Gaps Gap 7We built this because we saw you
You don’t need more staff — you need the front desk to stop being the ceiling.
Urgent care volumes are growing — $29B in 2025 projected to $42B by 2035 — but margins are thin and the operational tension is constant. The practices that scale are the ones that maximize throughput and minimize denials by automating everything that doesn’t require a clinician. We build exactly that.
What we automate for you
Six automations we deploy first for urgent care.
Ranked by hours recovered and throughput lifted. Every one maps to a specific pain point category and integrates with your existing PMS.
Digital pre-registration with real-time eligibility
Before
Walk-in fills paper forms, front desk calls insurance, 12–20 min check-in
After
Patient pre-registers from phone in queue; real-time Availity API eligibility; 3–5 min check-in
Check-in 16 min → 5 min
Walk-in queue management + SMS wait times
Before
Patients wait without visibility; frustrated patients leave
After
Real-time queue with SMS updates on current wait; patients can leave and return
Walk-out rate cut, satisfaction lifts
AI ambient scribe for documentation
Before
Provider spends 10–15 min per encounter on documentation
After
Ambient AI scribe generates structured note during the visit; provider reviews and approves
Documentation 13 min → 6 min per encounter
Point-of-care charge capture + E&M level suggestion
Before
Biller enters codes hours or days after visit — missed charges, wrong E&M level
After
AI suggests E&M level and charges from provider note at visit completion; provider approves
Revenue per encounter +8–12%; denial rate 12% → 5%
Self-pay price transparency engine
Before
Price transparency requirement not met or met with rough estimates
After
Real-time cost estimator at check-in based on likely service codes and self-pay schedule
Compliance + lift in self-pay collection
Patient identity verification for duplicate prevention
Before
Duplicate records created under peak load
After
Automated identity matching on check-in flags potential duplicates before creation
Duplicate record rate drops toward zero
Your impact model
Here’s the math on what changes after we deploy.
Annual impact: $100K–$250K recovered revenue and reduced overhead. Weekly time saved: 20–30 hours.
Why ANOXIS for urgent care
Four things that make us different — specifically for urgent care.
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We build for urgent care’s episodic model — every visit is “new” and the automation has to assume zero context.
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Ambient scribe integration without forcing you onto a specific vendor.
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Point-of-care charge capture designed for the E&M complexity of urgent care.
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HIPAA-aware by default.
See the 14-day throughput audit.
We walk your urgent care workflow live. You leave with a prioritized gap list, ranked by hours saved and dollars recovered, whether you hire us or not.
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