When to go to the ER: If your symptoms are severe.

Instead, worried the fracture was more complex, they referred Maia to the emergency room and charged $35 for the visit. "The urgent care said, 'Look this is above our pay grade.' ...

Work cooperatively with emergency room staff. “It might not be fair, but if a patient comes in screaming and shouting that they need pain medication right away, the staff isn’t going to like it.

My choices as a doctor in the emergency room are up or out. Up, for the very sick. I stabilize things that are broken, infected or infarcted, until those patients can be whisked upstairs for their ...

The issue of emergency room overuse has been gaining national attention in recent years. It was elevated recently when UnitedHealthcare, among others, announced new policies to retroactively deny ...

Anthem began denying payment for emergency room services in a handful of states when the insurer decided the member did not face an emergency. As a result, patients were getting stuck with the bills.