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Picking the right type of care saves hours of waiting and often hundreds of dollars.
Open 24/7. A typical full visit in the area takes 2 to 5½ hours. ERs must treat everyone, regardless of ability to pay.
Walk in; most are open evenings and weekends. Self-pay visit at most urgent cares: about $105–$300.
By appointment. Accept Medicaid and Medicare, with sliding fees as low as $0–$35 a visit.
Listings are updated regularly from each provider's own website. ER wait estimates combine national and hospital-level federal data.
Urgent cares, CVS MinuteClinics, community health centers and ERs from Covington to Chalmette.
Medicare's reported ER times for each hospital, plus links to live waits where hospitals post them.
Commercial, Marketplace, Healthy Louisiana (Medicaid), Medicare, Medicare Advantage and TRICARE.
2022 is the most recent year of national ER visit data the CDC has released. It shows how waits change with how urgent a visit is and the time of day.
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