It makes you wonder what aggregate health care spending really is. My daughter had a recent ER trip that ended up costing $1k; supposedly that was a discout from the going rate of 5k because she was covered by BC/BS, which didn’t pay a dime , while I coughed up $1000.00 that could have been avoided with a simple phone call to the house.
There's an opportunity here to put little satellite walk in offices across from/ next to every busy ED. Offer cheap triage (if you need to go to the ED, we'll confirm this; and if not, it's a much smaller payment for something we'll take care of here). The problem is the malpractice rates and the pushback by the hospital EDs.
What was the general nature of your daughter's ED visit?