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Others have pointed these things out individually, but I wanted to say them all in one place: An urgent care is well suited to needing a couple stitches or a c
by repiret 4y ago
Others have pointed these things out individually, but I wanted to say them all in one place:
An urgent care is well suited to needing a couple stitches or a cast. At the ER, you're also paying for:
* A facility and staffing equipped to handle serious trauma and critical illness.
* (In the US) A facility that legally cannot turn away people for inability to pay. Exacerbated by being in a national medical system where lots of people can't pay for basic care, so they go to the ER to receive it.
If you don't need those things, then don't go to an ER if you can help it. Some large hospitals essentially operate an urgent care with the same waiting room as the ER in order to lower their costs, but I've only seen that at the largest of hospitals, and I've been to at least one large hospital that didn't work that way.
- mrguyorama 4y agoAs an insured person, an urgent care costs the same as an ER visit and does less for me. My equally insured girlfriend had to pay several hundred dollars to an urgent care facility for a rapid strep and rapid covid tests, about $50 in a civilized country.
- maybeinsured 4y agoI pay $80 for Urgent Care services such as this in the US, a civilized country, the trick being I pay out of pocket then send in the receipt to my insurance for credit. Sorry to hear your girlfriend found a crap business. https://www.holycitymed.com/primary-care/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_Lutm93o_AIVibbICh0pLAKbEAAYASAAEgJgJfD_BwE https://www.holycitymed.com/primary-care/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI...
- repiret 4y agoIt may cost you the same. With my insurance, if I'm admitted to a hospital, the time I spend in the ER is free to me, but if I'm not admitted, I pay for the time I'm in the ER. That doesn't make ERs cheaper when you get admitted. ERs are more expensive to operate then urgent care. Even when the ER is treating something that could be treated at an urgent care. That doesn't change just because some people's insurance hide that detail from them.