> Whenever you go to a hospital it's impossible to tell what the cost will be.

Hospital emergency rooms are for emergency services.

Suspected Coronavirus patients should not be presenting to hospital ERs for testing and care unless they are experiencing respiratory distress or other urgent symptoms.

Basic testing and diagnosis should be handled via local doctors. Please call first to discuss the Coronavirus protocol.

Don't go to the Hospital unless you need urgent emergency care for something. You will be charged urgent, emergency care prices.

And that is what the hospital should have told him and then sent him home. They should not have done the tests and charged him 3k for it.

Right, and evidently covid19 test was just one of 22 other tests, who knows what the price of each was. It’s possible 2-3 of those cost 400 each, a dozen that cost maybe 100 each. I can easily see someone in a tight spot saying ‘let’s skip the three 400 dollar tests’. This is a wild way to sincerely provide healthcare.

Read it again. They did not do a covid19 test at all.

> "I have no idea, probably whatever your deductible is"

That would be your out-of-network deductible, since your anesthesiologist is guaranteed to be out-of-network.