And Urgent Care will often just send the patient to the ER with the same company, because it makes them more money. My girlfriend went to an Urgent Care with a

And Urgent Care will often just send the patient to the ER with the same company, because it makes them more money. My girlfriend went to an Urgent Care with a stomach bug. They asked if she had any abdominal pain, and she said yes. That was a flag for them to say "We can't handle you because abdominal pain is a flag for possible appendicitus so you have to go to the Emergency Room now." There was no way she had appendicitus. She just needed an antibiotic. But you follow the hospital's advice, and stepped into the ER and suddenly was charged $5,000 for useless tests and had to stay there for 6 hours.