About Your Bill - Urgent Care And Emergency Department Charges

If your child is treated in Urgent Care, you will receive a bill for those services.

If the Urgent Care team determines your child requires services from our ED without treating your child in Urgent Care, you will not receive a bill from Urgent Care.

If treatment begins in Urgent Care but we need to transfer your child to the ED, you will receive a bill from Urgent Care and the ED.

No, unless you know for sure it is an emergency. By law, once you go to the ED and your child is registered as a patient, they have to receive care there.

ED visits are typically more costly. It may save you money if we can see your child in Urgent Care.

Visit seattlechildrens.org/ucvsed to help you decide when you should go to Urgent Care or the ED.

Patients with Apple Health (Medicaid) or Seattle Children’s financial assistance will not receive bills for the amounts that their insurance does not pay.

• Professional services provided by Seattle Children’s physicians, nurse practitioners or physician assistants.
• A clinic facility charge for being seen in the Urgent Care Clinic (if treatment is provided) and an ED facility charge for being seen in the ED.
• Facility charges for procedures. Some insurance companies cover a procedure like a “surgery” even if your child did not have a surgery.
• Diagnostic testing such as lab or radiology (X-ray) services.
• Medicines or supplies used in Urgent Care or the ED.

Seattle Children’s has a generous financial assistance program. Apply online at seattlechildrens.org/financialassistance. You may also call 206-987-3333 to speak with a financial counselor.