North Carolina’s Medicaid program has spent at least $75 million for patients to have nonemergency complaints addressed in the emergency room over the past couple of years. According to a new report released by the state, patients have to gone to the ED with primary complaints as mundane as bad breath, sunburn, bunions, and common warts. The report goes on to specify that those concerns—and many more—could be handled much less expensively and just as …
Read More![Why Are North Carolinians Going to the ED Instead of Urgent Care—at a Cost of $75 Million? Why Are North Carolinians Going to the ED Instead of Urgent Care—at a Cost of $75 Million?](https://www.jucm.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Why-Are-North-Carolinians-image-newsbrief-11.6.18.jpg)