# ER bills $1,000 for Doc who didn't show?

**URL:** <https://discussion.fool.com/t/er-bills-1-000-for-doc-who-didnt-show/59209>\
**Category:** Macro Economic Trends and Risks\
**Created:** [January 24, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/er-bills-1-000-for-doc-who-didnt-show/59209 "2022-01-24T11:33:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 24, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/er-bills-1-000-for-doc-who-didnt-show/59209/1 "2022-01-24T11:33:41Z")

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This is a first – the $1,000 “missing doctor” fee.

_ **The doctor didn’t show up, but the hospital ER still billed $1,012** _  
_[https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/01/24/1074531…](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/01/24/1074531328/the-doctor-didnt-show-up-but-the-hospital-er-still-billed-1-012)_

_Dhaval Bhatt, Martand’s father, said he’d been warned about hospital emergency rooms after he arrived in the U.S. from his native India._

_“People always told me to avoid the ER in America unless you are really dying,” said Bhatt, a research scientist and pharmacologist at Washington University in St. Louis._

That’s where we are in America – even medical professionals are afraid of the financial risk of visiting an ER.

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