That's what it costs when you use the emergency room for your primary care. It would be no more than $100 if done at a doctor's office.
First, if you show up at any emergency room, and it’s not a simple cut or simple sprain....then there’s tests. You can figure $3,000 will be spent in less than three hours over some low-to-medium episode. I’d take an educated guess that you could see $15,000 spent in eight hours at an emergency room with serious life-threatening conditions and tests.
Course, if it wasn’t that bad, and you simply waited til Monday morning...called your local mom-and-pop clinic, and saw them...the same tests would be about half the costs, and they’d probably limit the tests to only necessary things.
Second, anyone who thinks first-class care is accomplished at emergency rooms...is foolish. Their job is to sustain you and get out of some really bad mess in a hurry. Decisions are made....which may or may not help your circumstance. They do the best they can...with the limits they have.
Third, if your deductible is $6,000 and you’ve just entered the emergency room because of a traffic accident and some serious bleeding or head injury....you’d best expect them to ask what your policy is, and if you got a credit card number to put against the initial $6,000. If you don’t like this kind of attitude....you’d best tote around $6,000 in your pocket and be prepared to pay on the spot.
Don’t know where u live but here in Indy u still get sent from the doctors office to the hospital to get xrays