After Shock Media

Technically the injury they went for should of went to a much cheaper walk in clinic, or if they were closed waited until morning for the clinic. The prescription should of been waived and filled come morning. There would of been no sterile supplies, or at least much less. Those fee's also include gloves, bedding, sheets, chucks, swabs, i.e. everything used behind those curtains. Then you have the ER fee which would not apply in a clinic situation. What you would have pretty much looked at would of been around 150 - 200 for a clinic visit plus 4-10 bucks for a prescription.

They just used the wrong place for the wrong thing. Unless the ear was bleeding like crazy and would not stop, ear was torn, or something was going to require plastic surgery. The ER was the wrong choice. It also happens to be one of the reasons charges are so damn high.

PS those that keep saying they only saw the doctor for a few minutes, only had a couple x-rays, one or two quick tests, etc. Doctors rarely need to see anyone more than a few minutes anyways for even more serious shit. Typically triage gets your info, nurses get more. By the time the doctor is in with you, they have read it all and checked up on things. They just confirm a few things with you and leave orders. That is their job. Then nurses or techs will do what was told. X-rays are costly, techs are costly, blood tests are not cheap. Then very often they have to run this shit.

Trust me I fucking cringe each time they try to put an IV in me. I know my veins are fucked and there chances of success are around 1:10 unless I can get one of their helicopter EMT's/nurses to try, they get it around 1:3. Back to the point, those IV starting kits, needles, tubing, etc. All fucking expensive and each miss is throwing cash out the window.

Go to court about what? Them charging you for services rendered? Any of which you can deny having given to you, assuming your of sound mind.

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