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Urgent Care centers do not have hospital privileges and cannot admit to the hospital. If they think you need hospitalization, they send you to the ER. Bypassin
by arkades 7y ago
Urgent Care centers do not have hospital privileges and cannot admit to the hospital. If they think you need hospitalization, they send you to the ER.
Bypassing the ER is a good way to have your insurer try and deny coverage, since you’re giving them a plausible case that it wasn’t an emergency.
- fencepost 7y agoUrgent Care centers do not have hospital privileges and cannot admit to the hospital. That surprises me since (at least in my area of the Chicago suburbs) all of the urgent care centers I've seen are associated with hospitals or hospital networks. I have no experience with their admitting capabilities though, having never actually used one.