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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm so frustrated... last I heard (9:00 pm) Dad was STILL at urgent care "waiting for transport" to the ER. He hadn't even been assessed in the ER by that time; he was just sitting/lying in a bed at urgent care waiting for the medical transport. [/quote]

Why did they need medical transport? Can’t your brother take him? How did he get to urgent care? [/quote]

OP here -- I KNOW, RIGHT???

I could try to explain family dynamics here, but basically boils down to lack of communication.

Dad's at the hospital now, being prepped for surgery.

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Once the UC deemed it medically necessary for him to need to go to the ER, he would have had to leave AMA from UC to go to the ED.  Now, that's the option I probably would have gone with BUT, it can cause complications with insurance and it could cause problems with how quickly he got seen in the ER.  [/quote]

That's a medical urban legend. Medicare would have no problems if my dad had skipped the medical transport and gone straight to the ER. [/quote]

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