<prompt> Human: Long story short: I went to the ER over food poisoning because the Urgent Care center directed me there since they said I needed an IV and vomited too many times.Was at the ER for a total of 7 hours because you know the lovely waiting game when in a hospital. Upon registering and being a in hospital bed, I repeatedly told the nurse I had no health insurance and would need financial help.Later, the nurse said doctor said I needed a abdominal CT scan. Being medicated at this point and assuming the doctor knows best, I agreed. If they had told me the price point of this needed CT scan I would not have done it.Total hospital bill: 21,022CT scan itself: 12,361 Submitted a Charity Care Form and got it discounted.Now hospital bill: 3,964.40CT scan doctor: 309ER doctor: 391.40BloodUrine Testing: 76My full story is on ranswers.Please, I need help or advice.People seem to think Im asking advice to magically make this bill disappear or something. I understand I had a service done, and will pay. Im asking advice to REDUCE it. Right now my debt is a total of 4,740. If I could get that reduced to 2,000 total I would be happy.Assistant: Sounds like you had services rendered and need to pay them. Great that they helped you out with a massive discount, ask about a payment plan.Human: Regardless of the fact that the doctors knew I had food poisoning and had me get a CT scan that was unnecessary. Without that CT scan, my medical bill would have started at 8,661 before ANY discount.When I had repeatedly told the doctornurses that I was uninsured. How could I not feel cheated?  <response>: They dont just give CT scans for no reason, what would the doctor gain from that? He thought you may need it so it was ordered. Just because in this situation it turned out that you may not have doesnt make it medically unnecessary. This is why medical insurance exists, its an insurance against 21000 ER bills.You were given a service so you need to pay it. Ask them for a payment plan 