Urgent Care

Benefits of Urgent Care Service

• First, you can immediately receive medical assistance once you step inside the facility. Accidents can happen at any time and there is nothing more frustrating than having to wait for a healthcare professional to be available to tend to you.
• Second, even though most urgent health care clinics are not open 24 hours a day, they are open extended hours as well as open on Saturday, Sunday and holidays. Therefore, your medical needs can be attended to by a primary care physician even during non-business hours – just when you need it the most.
• Third, seeking urgent care services for non-fatal or non-emergent medical conditions will cost you less when you opt for urgent care service instead of going to hospitals or to your family doctor.
• Fourth, unlike in a regular visit to the doctor’s office, appointments for urgent care services are also not required and you can still receive medical attention even if you are a walk-in patient.
• Fifth, urgent care service is an ideal solution for administering first aid to minor health issues or providing instant relief to simple illnesses without the high cost associated with a trip to a hospital emergency room.

Which NYC urgent care location is the best for me?

Nao Medical urgent care services are readily available and easily accessible in 14 NYC area locations (Hicksville, Long Island; Astoria, Jamaica, Jackson Heights in Queens; Brooklyn, NYC; the Bronx at Bartow Avenue in Co-op City; and the Bronx at E. 174th Street). Nao Medical provides reliable, convenient, and flexible urgent care medical services because you deserve shorter wait times than in emergency rooms. Our urgent care services are covered by most major medical insurances. Nao Medical takes pride in providing reasonable and affordable urgent care services even for those without health insurances.

How are you different from a primary care physician? How can a consumer tell the difference?

Medical offices that call themselves urgent care may not be certified as one nor medically equipped to take care of medical problems that need urgent care medicine expertise. They will accommodate you on a walk-in basis to fill a vacancy in their schedule. Expect long wait times.

Such medical offices may refuse to see children and may not be open extended hours or on holidays or weekends. They may not have X-ray capability. They may refuse to suture lacerations or treat your child’s elbow dislocation or ankle fracture or other common urgencies, as they don’t have the expertise required for these medical conditions.

Are you an emergency room? How is Nao Medical different from other places?

No. Nao Medical is NOT an emergency room. Read our blog regarding where to go – Urgent Care vs. Emergency Room. Nao Medical is an urgent care walk-in clinic.

Walk-in patients are “new” patients every time, and you need a unique skill-set to evaluate and treat such patients. Nao Medical is a true urgent care center run by professionals with years of experience in urgent medical care. In fact, Nao Medical is the first and only stand-alone certified urgent care center in Hicksville and its surrounding area.

How is Nao Medical different from multi-specialty medical groups in Queens and Long Island?

Years ago, some companies got in the business of managing their own risk by hiring their own doctors and opening centers in Queens and Long Island. The goal of these Long Island and Queens medical groups was to align with insurance companies to keep costs down by tightly controlling referrals and service usage by their members.

To cut costs incurred by the plan’s members for ER visits, these Long Island medical groups made sure that their patients came back to them in a “urgent/walk-in area” instead of going to a local area hospital ER.

Patients, however, remained dissatisfied with the care services and eventually these centers had to be re-christened and their physicians were allowed to accept other patients outside of their contracted insurance companies.

However, even today their contractual and capitation obligations to minimize costs remains unchanged, as do the provider incentives of year-end bonuses.

What services does Nao Medical provide for corporations?

At Nao Medical, we also offer on-the-job injury services to surrounding businesses and industries, hotels, restaurants, and office buildings. At Nao Medical, we provide a wide range of occupational medicine services, including pre-employment physicals, drug screens, and work comp back-to-work programs

How is Nao Medical different from other urgent care facilities?

Many urgent care centers use a medical provider that bills out of network for their services. Nao Medical does not. Nao Medical does not have stockholders. On the other hand, many urgent care centers are backed by financial players such as private equity firms. Nao Medical does not have any such allegiance or alliance. Nao Medical is fully owned and operated by physicians. Nao Medical also offers Telemedicine visits so you can get treated from the comfort of your home!