<prompt> Human: On September of last year, I hit my leg against a rod, quite badly. Later on that day when the pain was unbearable, I went to a private hospitals emergency room not by ambulance. I was in quite the amount of pain, even crying in the emergency room. I was seen by the doctor, who merely looked at my leg, tapped it, and declared that I should be fine and gave me one Motrin pill. I might as well have crawled to the local Walgreens and buy a whole pack for under 10 if I knew that was going to happen.The hospital has asked me for 1.1k since. My insurance claims that they have already paid for some of the bill, as my original bill was close to 2K. I have not paid my debt, two collection agencies have mailed me letters about the debt. Im a college student working a minimum wage job - there is no way I can pay 1.1k for virtually no services. I had two other emergency room visits since then, for different reasons and at different hospitals, where I was given a multitude of tests CAT scans, x-rays, EKGs, etc and I still had to pay less for those hospitals than I do for the one Motrin pill, with insurance. Furthermore, after that visit the Motrin pill did not work by the way, I was still limping at work and was heavily bruised for about three weeks to a month. When I say the emergency room visit did nothing for me, it really did not do anything for me.I have sent the hospital an email regarding my situation and my reasons for not paying it and they still insist on charging me the ridiculous amount of money. What can I do in this case? Is paying the full debt unavoidable? EDIT: i understand that a PCP or urgent care may have been better, but it was night time, almost ten o clock. Offices were closed. I also honestly believed I tore a muscle or something because it hurt so much to the point where I couldnt walk or stand. For the next few days after the visit, I couldnt even go to work because I was simply bedridden - in order to go to the bathroom, I had to only walk with my right foot and have my whole torso hunched over because I could not use my left foot. Yes sure, the problem slightly went away after a week or so, but I was still limping for the next three weeks with a bruise the color of eggs and bacon on my thigh.Assistant: You cant select a premium service, then complain that you didnt benefit from the service you selected so you should not pay the premium price. You made the selection to go to the ER. For leg pain.We see this so often, people complaining that they didnt need the ER they decided to go to. The solution is to not go to the ER. Not to not have to pay if you over escalated your injury. Human: As I said in another comment, the leg pain was to the point where I couldnt walk or stand, and had to be carried to the car and into the hospital, and again back. It wasnt just leg pain. I really thought I tore a muscle or something.  <response>: So, it was an emergency. And you were glad there was a place open with highly trained staff ready to do surgery or any needed thing at a moments notice. For that security though, there is a high cost. It will cost much more then urgent care. 