Thursday, September 29, 2022

not good, but important to learn, some urgent care centers may not accept your car insurance as coverage that will pay for your medical emergency caused by a car wreck

read the entire article, of course, but here is what I got from it that caused me to want to tell you, that United States urgent care centers have limits on who they treat — for both financial and medical reasons.

Standard policy for urgent care centers is to not treat injuries that result from car crashes, even minor ones.

Generally they do not take care of car accident victims regardless of the extent of their injuries, because it is going to go through that auto insurance claims process before the provider gets paid

Urgent care centers — even ones owned by big health systems — often operate on thin margins and can't wait months and months for an auto insurance company to pay out a claim.

Urgent care centers are not bound by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, a federal law known as EMTALA that requires hospitals to stabilize patients regardless of their ability to pay.

United States emergency rooms by law must see all patients regardless of such issues



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