What is minute clinic

We are providing local health care that touches millions of lives. Our approximately 1, MinuteClinic locations offer convenient, high-quality, care for common family illnesses. MinuteClinic offers expanded services where clinicians can screen, diagnose and treat customers and provide follow-up care for chronic conditions as well as provide services for minor injuries and illnesses, immunizations and annual exams, in-store or virtually.

If patients are unable to visit us in a clinic, they can select a virtual E-Clinic visit with a local MinuteClinic provider for a wide variety of routine health care needs. This option is available in the 35 states and Washington, D. Video Visits are also covered by most Aetna insurance plans.

Video Visits are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and can be accessed via a mobile device or computer. While you can easily make an appointment online at MinuteClinic. We have new protocols in place to help keep our customers and our providers safe and we are asking customers to wear a mask throughout their visit. Not all services offered by MinuteClinic are covered by L. Care, such as video visits.

Call Member Services to check coverage, or if you're not sure if you should use MinuteClinic or another care option. MinuteClinics are open seven days a week, including evenings and weekends, with no appointment required. Hours of operation vary. You can look up a MinuteClinic location in the L.

Care Provider Directory under Retail Clinics. From there, you'll also be able to visit that specific location's web page to view wait times and options to make an appointment. Visit the retail clinic page on the L. Care website to view details about this benefit. There are no X-ray machines, lab testing or CT scans. Urgent care clinics offer more services for more serious illnesses and condition. While they are certainly equipped to treat the same minor illnesses as Minute Clinics, such as colds, flus, strep throat and sinus infections; they are equipped to treat more acute illnesses and injuries such as deep cuts and broken bones.

Another difference between Minute Clinics and urgent care clinics is that urgent care clinics have not only nurse practitioners and physician assistants on staff, they also have one or two board-certified physicians on staff as well. While urgent care clinics are beyond the scope of Minute Clinics, they do offer some of the same benefits, namely no appointment is required, wait times are also typically 20 minutes or less, and the services offered are much more affordable than a trip to the ER or even your own doctor.

And, with most urgent care facilities open 7 days a week, days a year, including extended hours, they allow busy people to get the treatment they need when they need it. In short, urgent care clinics can offer everything a Minute Clinic can and much, much more.

Only those with life-threatening illnesses should seek treatment from an emergency room, otherwise, an urgent care clinic will be able to provide the medical treatment you need when you need it.

We always do our best to offer the most affordable rates and payment options to our patients.