If You Pay For An ER Appointment, Is There An Emergency?




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Summary: With more emergency departments being overwhelmed with patients. Some are trying to alleviate the amount of people showing up at specific times. Doing things like texting people wait times and even allowing people to pay for an off peak appointment. Will this have any effect on EMS or is this just hospitals responding to an overload of non emergent ED visits. Won't this just encourage more non emergent visits? Join Jim and give your take on this topic and how you think EMS will be helped or hurt by these initiatives.