[Publius6961]

While I am glad to feel better it is bittersweet to realize that this 2 hour visit to the hospital will most likely cover the annual family deductible for our insurance.

I went to the ER for the first time in my life in 2004.
I was there 12 hours, but actually being attended by doctors or nurses for a total of 1 hour, including filling out forms very slowly.

Total charge?

$6000+

I imagine it's gone up since.

[in the wind]

This was just last week so I haven’t seen any of the bills yet. I am not looking forward to sifting through the upcoming redtape between our insurer and the hospital.

The ER is never the place to be unless one has ‘life threatening’ issues. Had I know the hospital changed their triage procedures, the ER and after hours clinic are adjacent to each other, I may have suffered for another day and tried to squeeze in to see our family physician.