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No. And I never want to have to go to the ER for anything. It is so, so expensive. It's a $150 copay just to walk in the door, I can't imagine the bill later...

Yep, she had a super high fever at 5 months old in the middle of the night. I can't remember the bill being outrageous at all though

We've taken Xander a bunch! We have a $200 co-pay. I forget how much the rest of the bill ends up being. I think our insurance covers about 80%.

Yes, once, and I think we just paid our co-pay. We had excellent insurance at the time, but our co-pay was still $150 for the ER. Both our ped and internal medicine practices now have urgent care hours which I totally love, because we had to switch insurance and now ours isn't as good, so no doubt we'd get crazy bills for the ER.

We took her to urgent care once, which is treated the same by our insurance. The bill was like $1500 I think? But we only had to pay our $150 copay + 10%. I think we ended up paying around 200ish.

@jetsa: oh it gets worse. My husband's work (ironically he works for an insurance company-- so you'd think that they'd offer decent insurance) took away our PPO option so next year we are being forced into a high deductible HSA. Which means no copays and no insurance coverage AT ALL until we meet our 3k deductible. @!#@%%@#%#

@jetsa: YUP. worst part (IMO) is that they are trying to act like they're doing us a favor. "oh your monthly premiums are going down. YOU'RE WELCOME." GAHHHH.

(sorry for the threadjack.)

@Mae: that's the exact insurance I have next year and I work in healthcare!!! It's insane. I already have my 3000 saved for labor and delivery.

Nope! We have a $150 co-pay. We just go to after hours at the Pedi! That was part of the reason we chose the pedi office because of their weekend and after hours!

Yeah, when he had croup and I thought he couldn't breathe... Well taking him into the cold air really helped by the time we got there, and he only saw a PA, bill was absolutely ridiculous considering they didn't even do anything for him.

@chopsuey: Last year LO had a 104.5 fever and was throwing up tylenol so we went to the ER. They basically gave her a Motrin dose, and waited for her fever to go down. We have great insurance, and still paid several hundred dollars out if pocket, for a single Motrin dose. I swore off the ER unless bones are broken from here on!!!