I was seen at Saint Mary's Urgent Care Center for an upper respiratory infection back in December…read more The urgent care clinic in Cheshire was only a few months old and looked very clean and inviting from the outside. Upon enter the clinic, I was greeted by very friendly front desk staff and was thrilled to noticed that the waiting room was empty! The staff took me right back and got me started. I thought to myself 'Wow, this is great! A new, clean clinic with friendly, inviting staff, AND no wait!'. That was basically where everything positive ended. Once in the waiting room, I went through the typical vitals and then waited for the doctor. The doctor wasn't one, but rather a PA-C named Sara Marie Miceli. Very cold beside manner. I explained my symptoms, to which she seemed rather uninterested, and when I say that all she did was listen to me breathe and look down my throat, I'm not exaggerating. She then looked at me and said "I'll be right back", and never returned. The nurse who took my vitals returned to the room and began handing me paperwork and a prescription for cough medicine. I finally asked, "what's wrong with me?" since I had not been told, and wasn't sure what all the paperwork she was handing me was for. Her reply was, "Oh, you have an upper respiratory infection". This prompted me to ask questions such as, "Do I need antibiotics?", "Should I go to work?", "Am I contagious?", ya know, all things I would have asked the PA-C had she actually returned to go over my prognosis. The total duration of my visit from check-in to check-out was 20 minutes. Now, the cherry on top of this whole saga is the fact that I, a working, middle-class woman, used her insurance to pay for the visit. In visits to other urgent care clinics in the past, $75 was a typical bill. I received a bill from Saint Mary's Hospital Urgent Care Center for $397. Why, you ask? Oh, because they use the same code for Emergency Room visits as well as urgent care visits. These facilities are clearly not the same, nor do they provide the same care. I then called the clinic to find out what a visit would cost for someone without insurance. I was told $100, assuming that I wouldn't need any testing. I have tried to straiten this out with Saint Mary's billing department to no avail. I have offered to pay the $100 for the visit, as I cannot wrap my head around or justify $397 for a 20 minute urgent care visit for a URI. They will not accept this offer. IF, for some strange reason, you still should feel the need to utilize Saint Mary's Urgent Care Center, DO NOT tell them that you have insurance! Is it possible to give 0 stars? That's what I would give Saint Mary's Urgent Care Center.