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Cost to Go to a Urgent Care Clinics Without Insurance

For many years, uninsured people were forced to visit an emergency room for something as minor as a cut finger.

Urgent care clinics are an alternative option to primary care and emergency room services. They began to evolve in the 1990’s as an answer to many Americans’ complaints of not having access to their primary care doctors at nights or on weekends.


Urgent care centers, of which there are about 9,300 in the country, are typically open seven days a week until 9 PM or even later in some metropolitan areas. They are staffed primarily by family care and emergency room physicians and offer nearly all of the services offered in a traditional doctor’s office or ER. urgent care without insurance

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