Another ER scam is insurers not paying claims for ER visits if the diagnosis was something benign. This is ridiculous. Patients are not doctors; we can’t diagnose ourselves.
I once went to the ER late at night for chest pains. Turns out I had some random benign stress-related thing that went away soon, but the cardiologist emphasized that I was right to call 911. I’ve never had a heart attack. How am I supposed to tell the difference between extreme chest pain that is a heart attack and extreme chest pain that isn’t a heart attack?