About American Caresource Holdings

American CareSource Holdings, Inc. provides urgent and primary care services. The company owns and operates 13 urgent and primary care centers in the east and southeastern United States. Its centers deliver convenient, affordable urgent and primary care primarily on a walk-in basis to local community members. The company also owns an ancillary services network business. Urgent and Primary Care Business The company's community-based, walk-in medical centers offer a range of medical services. It treats colds, influenzas, ear infections, hypertension and other routine medical conditions, which it considers to be among its ‘primary care’ offerings, and it also treats higher acuity conditions, such as lacerations, dislocations, bruises, sprains and strains, which it considers its ‘urgent care’ offerings. The company also offers occupational health services to local employers, which involve its performance of pre-employment drug screens, physicals and the treatment of on-the-job injuries to employees or contractors of its employer clients. Services and Service Lines The company’s centers offer a range of medical services that include urgent care, primary care, family practice and occupational medicine. Specifically, it offers non-emergent, out-patient medical care for the treatment of acute, episodic, and some chronic medical conditions. Patients typically visit its centers on a walk-in basis if they do not have an existing relationship with a primary care provider, when their condition is beyond the scope of their regular primary care provider but not severe enough to warrant an emergency visit or when treatment by their primary care provider is inconvenient. The company also attempts to capture follow-up, preventive and general primary care business after each walk-in visit. The services provided at its centers include, but are not limited to, routine treatment of general medical problems, including colds, influenza, ear infections, hypertension, asthma, pneumonia, urinary tract infections, and other conditions typically treated by primary care providers; treatment of injuries, such as simple fractures, dislocations, sprains, bruises, and cuts; minor, non-emergent surgical procedures, including suturing of lacerations and removal of cysts and foreign bodies; diagnostic tests, such as x-rays, electrocardiograms, complete blood counts, and urinalyses; and occupational and industrial medical services, including drug testing, workers’ compensation cases, and physical examinations. The company’s occupational medicine service line involves the rendering of treatment to employees or contractors of employer clients. Occupational medicine services are sold directly to employers and are generally paid for in cash by the employer. The services typically rendered include, but are not limited to general employee wellness services; drug and alcohol screening; pre-employment physicals; and employee vaccine administration. Clients The company's healthcare payor clients engage it to manage an array of ancillary healthcare services that they and their payors have agreed to make available to their insureds or beneficiaries, or for which they have agreed to provide insurance coverage. History American CareSource Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1995.