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Old 03-22-2010, 10:54 AM
DaemonSeid DaemonSeid is offline
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Originally Posted by AOII Angel View Post
That consultation fee is for the ability to go to an afterhours style urgent care facility and see a doctor. You pay more for that convenience. The doctor doesn't actually get that money. The physician is an employee of that center and gets paid somewhere between $50 and $75 and hour to staff the center depending on the contract. A business runs the center and will shut down, leaving you with no convenient place to see a doctor for your broken wrist, if they cut back on the fee allowable.
Also he went o an urgent care center and not the ER...so he probably spent less time there too.
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