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I've been treated by urgent care for an anaphylactic reaction and a major cut on the hand. They definitely can and will treat and triage something seemingly as
by danans 7y ago
I've been treated by urgent care for an anaphylactic reaction and a major cut on the hand. They definitely can and will treat and triage something seemingly as mild as flu like symptoms, if you have insurance.
Given the situation, urgent care clinics should be allowed to bill Medicaid or a similar program for treating uninsured people with covid19 symptoms. Sometimes, they are the only general medical care available.
The question I have is if hospitals are unprepared for the surge of covid19 cases, how much can most urgent care clinics do, since they are by design much leaner operations. The whole point of them is low cost, low overhead emergency care.
- redis_mlc 7y ago> I've been treated by urgent care for an anaphylactic reaction and a major cut on the hand. Good to know. How major was the cut?
- danans 7y agoDeep enough to require stitching - from a kitchen knife
- jariel 7y agoThis is just it. In a 2 Trillion dollar bill, there's no payment for those with Covid directly? It's inhumane but also irrational. During a pandemic, you need those with no insurance or scary-high co-pay to get tested and get help, otherwise, they become vectors for spread. It's literally probably cheaper to pay for their coverage. It's weird that they were fighting for a few billion here and there in this bill for special projects, I thought some would be saying: "no bailouts without everyone covered for covid" or something like that. But to see American leaders and press basically spend all day fighting each other on cable news, just another day of bickering, contrasted to almost every other nation where it's mostly muted and they talk about things they are doing, what you should do for Covid, updates etc.. It's really embarrassing.
- _delirium 7y ago> urgent care clinics should be allowed to bill Medicaid or a similar program I believe they can already, at least if it's patients who qualify for Medicaid (if you're proposing expanding Medicaid to temporarily cover all uninsured, then it's true that isn't the case). But it's up to the urgent-care clinics whether they want to take Medicaid patients or not. Around me, some do and some don't. The ones that don't, refuse it because they aren't willing to perform services at the Medicaid rates (Medicaid has fixed reimbursement schedules, set by each state).
- danans 7y ago> if you're proposing expanding Medicaid to temporarily cover all uninsured, then it's true that isn't the case Yes, specifically for COVID19 cases.