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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I sense a lot of ER doctors leaving united's network and just billing patients personally [/quote]

This is ignorant. ER docs have a salary.

It’s the hospital corporations that get $$$$$ from expensive ER visits.

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ER docs have a salary paid by an employer who is almost never the hospital. Most hospitals contract out their ERs. Those companies now have a lot of incentive to be out of network [/quote]

And hospital corporations have way more power than “employer” to decide who they will contract with. If your talking about locums, that is not the norm for the majority of employees at most hospitals.

Either way the original poster of this back and forth stated ER docs would begin billing personally. That is false.

And this is a good change. There is too much waste in the ER with non-emergency visits. They train for emergencies and prefer them. They don’t want to be a primary care doctor.

This will ease the strain on our healthcare system and should be the case across the board in order to ease taxpayer dollars.

If it can wait until your primary care is open, wait.  If it can’t but isn’t ER/Ambulance worthy, go to urgent care. 
If you suspect life and death or severely broken bones, go to the ER.

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You’re assuming people know their sprained pinkie isn’t an emergency [/quote]

Even a broken pinkie isn’t an emergency. All they can do is tape it to a splint unless it is totally mangled. [/quote]

The average person does not necessarily know how to properly splint and buddy tape a broken finger.  That’s why getting prompt medical care is appropriate.[/quote]

But you can get that at urgent care! [/quote]

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