This review is for the Minute Clinic. I got sick in February. I'm a temp and have no health insurance. I had heard that the Minute Clinic was a good option for uninsured people to get care, so I dragged my feverish self to the clinic.
I was given an in-office strep test, and when the test came back negative, I was told it was viral and to go home and sleep. I paid for the office visit and the rapid strep test and went home.
The first problem was that I was misdiagnosed. The negative strep test was accurate, but it wasn't viral. I had a bacterial ear infection that I discovered 3 weeks later when I was still sick and went to the Walgreens clinic instead. I was prescribed antibiotics and got better in a few days. If the practitioner at the Minute Clinic had diagnosed me correctly, I would have been spared weeks of suffering.
The second problem, which is the one that has me so upsed that I'm writing this review, was that after the practitioner gave me the in-office strep test, she sent it off to a laboratory without telling me that she was going to do it and without obtaining my consent. Then the laboratory, several months later, sent me a bill for a test I didn't know about or request and wouldn't have allowed if I had known.
Save your money and go to Walgreens instead. The Minute Clinic can't diagnose a simple ear infection and extorts money from poor people.