Depending on the complexity and acuity of the problem, I'm surprised that urgent care providers are willing to make these referrals. It puts them on the hook fo

Depending on the complexity and acuity of the problem, I'm surprised that urgent care providers are willing to make these referrals. It puts them on the hook for reviewing consultation notes and followup results on potentially dozens of visits, time for which I assume they have no capacity to bill, since they are not your PCP and have no longstanding relationship (just an acute care provider). Not to mention a lack of context (no followup visits to see how PT is going), lack of infrastructure for keeping track of consultation results (for us they just show up in a big manilla envelope and need some kind of system for reviewing, scanning, storing). My system thankfully has great access to PCPs, so I virtually never make a nonemergency referral; coordinating this care is the role of the PCP and entirely outside of my scope of expertise and training. Urgent care seems like a poor replacement for having fair access to a PCP, but maybe that's just like, my opinion, man.