Advantage Urgent Care Fax Number — Send Your Visit Summary to Your Doctor
After a walk-in visit, Advantage Urgent Care faxes the summary to your primary care office so your chart stays current; here is how to get it to the right desk. Advantage Urgent Care, an urgent care center in Sterling Heights, Michigan, sends and receives visit summaries, results, and referrals by fax every day. Because a visit summary is protected health information, this guide covers both where to send it and how to keep the transmission compliant.
Advantage Urgent Care Fax Number
Confirm the right fax with Advantage Urgent Care; the records line may differ from the front desk
Hours: Front-desk coverage tracks the center's long daily hours, including weekends, so an incoming fax is received when the clinic is open, but a records release sent after hours is worked the next business day.
Send a Fax NowWhat You Can Fax to Advantage Urgent Care
- A return-to-work or return-to-activity status note
- Discharge and follow-up instructions from the visit
- A visit summary sent to the patient's primary care physician for continuity of care
- A signed records-release request for a copy of the visit record
- A work or school excuse note verifying the visit
Getting the Advantage Urgent Care visit summary into your chart
A walk-in visit at Advantage Urgent Care does not replace a patient's regular doctor, so the visit summary is faxed to the patient's primary care physician to keep the medical record whole. Send the summary as one document so the diagnosis and the follow-up instructions stay together. A follow-up call confirms the primary office received the summary if it is time-sensitive.
X-ray and lab results at Advantage Urgent Care
Imaging reports and laboratory results are among the everyday faxes Advantage Urgent Care sends after a walk-in visit. Note whether the result should reach the primary care office, a specialist, or the patient's records. Keep the confirmation so you can show the result was transmitted.
HIPAA and your fax to Advantage Urgent Care
Faxing PHI to Advantage Urgent Care is allowed, but the service you use has to protect it. A consumer fax app is not enough; the channel needs to be encrypted and HIPAA-compliant. Send FAX Mail encrypts pages in transit and includes HIPAA from the $39.99/month Professional plan, a safer route for patient records going to Advantage Urgent Care than a public machine.
Faxing to Advantage Urgent Care — FAQ
Faxes reach Advantage Urgent Care whenever you send them, and the extended hours help, though prior-authorization and records work follows a business-day schedule. Because Advantage Urgent Care stays open late, someone is usually at the desk to receive a fax. Time-sensitive results reach the clinical staff while the clinic is open; routine paperwork waits for office hours. Flag anything urgent on the cover sheet so staff see it is time-sensitive.
It is, provided your fax service is HIPAA-compliant. Faxing itself is accepted for PHI; the transport is what has to be secure. Send FAX Mail encrypts pages in transit and includes HIPAA starting at $39.99/month — safer for PHI headed to Advantage Urgent Care than a public machine. The safeguard is the service you use, not the act of faxing.
The right number depends on which staff should receive the document. A larger center may take some documents through a records office, so confirm Advantage Urgent Care still accepts fax for your request. A quick check beats faxing PHI to a number that has moved. Skip the stale listing and confirm the line at the source.
File a signed authorization with the center's records office. Advantage Urgent Care routes the request to the staff who pull the record. A complete request — identifiers, visit date, and records wanted — moves fastest. Once processed, Advantage Urgent Care releases the records to you or the party you named.
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