Some of the procedures may not have needed to happen in an ED setting, but since the patients presented there, they were treated, Dr. Hsia added.
In an accompanying Editor’s Note, Dr. Joseph S. Ross notes the results “suggest that there is some uncertainty during ED triage assessment of visit urgency and policies that are based on this assessment must take this uncertainty into account or risk unfairly, and inappropriately, imposing cost-sharing penalties.”
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