{"id":22984,"date":"2024-06-20T09:03:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T13:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22984"},"modified":"2024-06-20T09:03:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T13:03:57","slug":"its-called-an-urgent-care-emergency-center-but-which-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22984","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s called an urgent care emergency center \u2014 but which is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Renuka Rayasam, Emily Siner for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One evening last December, Tieqiao Zhang felt severe stomach pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After it subsided later that night, he thought it might be food poisoning. When the pain returned the next morning, Zhang realized the source of his pain might not be as \u201csimple as bad food.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He didn\u2019t want to wait for an appointment with his regular doctor, but he also wasn\u2019t sure if the pain warranted emergency care, he said.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2024\/06\/20\/g-s1-5075\/urgent-care-emergency-room-medical-billing-confusion\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2024\/06\/20\/g-s1-5075\/urgent-care-emergency-room-medical-billing-confusion\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Renuka Rayasam, Emily Siner for NPR) One evening last December, Tieqiao Zhang felt severe stomach pain. After it subsided<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,200],"tags":[543,385,814],"class_list":["post-22984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-health-insurance","tag-emergency-department-costs","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-urgent-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22985,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22984\/revisions\/22985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}