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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with this is that it will not hit the pocketbook of the person who is inappropriately using the emergency room.  The provider, who by federal law is required to perform an assessment, will not be reimbursed, but by contract will not be able to balance bill the patient.[/quote]

+1 the ER abusers are mostly uninsured. This is just United being cheap as usual. [/quote]

[b]I don't see why the ER can't turn away patients and force them to the urgent care across the street.[/b] Being uninsured shouldn't matter. The law needs changed because it's bankrupting our hospitals and driving up costs on everything else in a hospital (like routine surgeries or childbirth)[/quote]

How would that help?  That's not going to change whether people pay, it will just switch the burden of non-payment from one provider to another.[/quote]

Urgent care is like 1/10- 1/100th the price of an ER. With an ER you are paying for a hospital with specialists and operating rooms. It's better suited to gun shot wounds than strep throat.[/quote]

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