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Trip to ER might be costly
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<blockquote data-quote="&#039;Lord Brown&#039;s bidding&#039;" data-source="post: 1323163" data-attributes="member: 32753"><p>Acute stomach pain may not be life threatening, which is why you get it seen at an urgent care facility; let them upgrade it, and you don't have to worry whether or not it is an emergency. And wait times at most of them are relatively short, compared to going to an ER (I once sat in an ER with an ASTHMA ATTACK for 5 hours!)</p><p></p><p>Last year I had a bout with what ended up bbeing some bacterial sinus infection. Went to an urgent care facility, and they diagnosed me with strep throat; I was given antibiotics. Situation didn't improve, and my uvula (that fleshy thing that hangs down in the back of the throat) had swollen so that it was causing me to gag. I went back to the urgent care facility, which preceeded to send me to an ER. The attending doctor at the ER said he understood the mistake made by the urgent care physician, and would have made the same mistake himself. However, if HE had made the mistake, it would have cost me $100 for being a non - emergency. Having the urgent care send me, and I only paid half that in copay for both facilities.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="'Lord Brown's bidding', post: 1323163, member: 32753"] Acute stomach pain may not be life threatening, which is why you get it seen at an urgent care facility; let them upgrade it, and you don't have to worry whether or not it is an emergency. And wait times at most of them are relatively short, compared to going to an ER (I once sat in an ER with an ASTHMA ATTACK for 5 hours!) Last year I had a bout with what ended up bbeing some bacterial sinus infection. Went to an urgent care facility, and they diagnosed me with strep throat; I was given antibiotics. Situation didn't improve, and my uvula (that fleshy thing that hangs down in the back of the throat) had swollen so that it was causing me to gag. I went back to the urgent care facility, which preceeded to send me to an ER. The attending doctor at the ER said he understood the mistake made by the urgent care physician, and would have made the same mistake himself. However, if HE had made the mistake, it would have cost me $100 for being a non - emergency. Having the urgent care send me, and I only paid half that in copay for both facilities. [/QUOTE]
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