QuickHealth To Open No-Insurance Health Clinic in San Francisco

QuickHealth, Burlingame-based, is opening open another "retail health care store" -- a clinic that does not accept appointments or health insurance -- in San Francisco. The company opened a similar clinic in San Mateo in August 2005. QuickHealth tells the uninsured upfront the cost of different medical exams, procedures and treatments. QuickHealth officials say the retail clinic model reduces costs to the patient by eliminating overhead costs associated with billing, and by investing in electronic medical records technology and in-store diagnostic equipment. Doctors at the clinic treat "routine family medical problems," such as ear aches, fevers, sore throats and rashes, as well as providing immunizations and physicals.