![]() ![]() You do this by going to a pharmacy at your travel location, telling them you have refills at your home pharmacy and giving them the name and number of your home pharmacy. Forgotten or have run out of a medication? If you have refills still left at your home pharmacy, you often can have your home pharmacy transfer a refill to a pharmacy at your travel location (e.g., near Grandma’s house).Primary care physicians and Ob/Gyns may do this for upper respiratory tract and UTI symptoms in established patients. They may want you to come in for a follow-up visit in one or two weeks, but at least you can get your prescription rapidly. If you have an established relationship with a doctor (e.g., family practice physician, pediatrician, internist, Ob/Gyn), you may be able to call that doctor’s office or their after-hours line to tell them your symptoms and often they can call you in a prescription. Need a prescription? There may be another way to get it.If 30 days later you receive a bill for an ER visit, you can go back to the billing office of the urgent care center armed with the employee’s name who told you differently. Just because they say that it will be billed as urgent care doesn’t mean that it will. You need to ask the urgent care clinic in advance if it bills as urgent care or as an ER and get the name of the person who tells you. If a clinic is associated with a hospital (and sometimes even if it is not), it will consider itself an ER and bill like an ER. Some urgent care clinics are hospital emergency rooms in disguise.However, usually, urgent care co-pays are less than emergency room visit co-pays (which are often $100 or more). If you have a PPO plan, the copay may be more than a regular office visit copay (e.g., $75 urgent care copay vs. Know how your insurance covers urgent care visits before you go.Here are four mistakes to avoid when going to an urgent care clinic: ![]()
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