In their efforts to decrease patient waits, ERs may end up losing more money:
The fad of the day in the ER is some form of Provider is triage, Rapid Medical Screening or whatever name admin can come up with. In their endless search to increase business we are now catering to the very business that is bankrupting us, the med-i-caid or indigent self-pay people that rarely pay their bill.
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