RHD Hospital - Dedman Hospital Ripped off $240 dollars for taking my temperature and prescribing wrong medicine Farmers Branch Texas

really no different than any other er, elderly parent with cardio problems took us there,, never real busy pleasant,,but seemed somewhat slow at times,,one difficulty that i was fortunate to avoid by registration bog down was went on to parkland and there they found the tooth ache was actually septicemia blood stream infection msr? in salivaty glands, from removing dead meat from a horses rump,,other was had day surgery for wrist ended up done 5 hrs late, 3 hr expected in 1 1/2 new kid set bone graf wrong,,then few days later he reset an added tourniquet for10 says supposed to be off 2 wk,,been 4 years,,complained, to rhd ,worked //named surgeon who covered up dead hand paperwork up director of hands, but never over charged, oh cordial to surgeon had visitor while doin me,,had 7 1/2 hrs surgery at baylor to 1/2 correct an remove knuckles, at baylor but staff is nice,, still like old name

RHD Memorial Medical Center is a for profit Hospital
My company used to Manage this facilty until 8/07
I have been to the ER many times and never heard Doctors complaining about not wanting to be there cause they are missing golf days, nurses talking about their sex lifes
Maybe you are mistaking RHD for Greys Anatomy - Also the ER is for life threatening emergencies ie - Heart attacks, gun shot wounds, stroke victims etc etc
It is people like you who expect to waited on hand and foot - Get over it
ER medicine is not cheap -
Grow up - when you have head cold call your physician

An Emergency Room is only a Rip-Off if you are there for the wrong reasons. In most cases you are charged by the level of care required for your illness, so if you come in with a hang nail, you get a level one ER visit. If you come in with a heart attack, then you get a level 4 visit. Most of your charges are combined into each level of care, with the exception of drugs, diagnostic procedures and supplies.

Emergency rooms are for just thatEmergencies. We save babies, heart attack and stroke victims. Head-on crash victims. You were probably surprised to see that you also received a bill from the ER physician. Since Texas hospitals cannot employee doctors, your ER physician was contracted by the facility and you will get a bill from his company too.

It's not that your cold was not important it was just not an emergency, but since it is a hospital emergency room, we usually will not turn you away. Many people will visit the emergency rooms because they think they will not have to pay for their care. This is true (most of the time) however we can still bill you and we will bill you for the level of care the ER is set up to handle, and since colds or hang nails are not emergencies, we bill the lowest level of care, which would be at a minimum of several hundred dollars.

If you visit an ER, be prepared for the following minimum charges:

Level 1 5 Emergency room charge
ER Physician charges are billed separately in Texas
Radiologist charges for reading x-rays or other diagnostic tests
Pathologist charge for lab
Diagnostic procedures
Pharmacy charges
Supplies