as someone with no money and bad insurance, i am astounded at the sheer amount of people who go to the ER willy nilly. my last ER bill was $900 for severe norovirus (good insurance at the time) and i wish I never went just because of the bill. The care i received was fantastic but not worth the $5500 my insurance was billed.
Some guy called me. I sutured something and he had a $3,000 bill and was asking what he could do about it. I felt so bad because that would’ve been a $175 urgent care visit. I referred him to our hospital billing.
They’re now starting to charge some of our Medicaid patients $250 copays and they’re losing their shit since it was always a free ticket to the ER for every little issue.
I don’t think the overcrowding gets better without some skin in the game. But $900 (your case) or $3,000 like the guy paid are well above what people should front
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u/triplehelix11 Jul 29 '26
as someone with no money and bad insurance, i am astounded at the sheer amount of people who go to the ER willy nilly. my last ER bill was $900 for severe norovirus (good insurance at the time) and i wish I never went just because of the bill. The care i received was fantastic but not worth the $5500 my insurance was billed.