Insurers don't care. I recently got mono. It took three visits to a doctor, who just prescribe two back to back courses of antibiotics, a referral to see an ENT

Insurers don't care. I recently got mono. It took three visits to a doctor, who just prescribe two back to back courses of antibiotics, a referral to see an ENT on the last visit (which did not seem right and would have taken three weeks to get an appointment for). And finally me deciding "fuck it" and making a trip to the ER to get to the bottom of it. At the ER I sat in a chair four or five hours. They took some blood and ran a simple test and it was done. Total cost to my insurer was something around $4000. I paid about $160 all up. I tried contacting my insurer and the provider to explain this was ridiculous cost to sit in a chair, give some blood, and have a test done. My insurer is Cigna. They literally have no online way of sending them email or a message. And their call center is useless. So I gave that effort half an hour and gave up.