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Choosing an urgent care center over the ER can save you time and money: 1  Average time of an ER visit: 4.5 hours*. 2  Average cost of an ER visit: $2,259**. 3  Average cost of an urgent care center visit: $176**.
ER visits are about four times as expensive as other ambulatory visits and take an average of four to five hours versus the usual one-hour visit in other venues. Billions of dollars in health care costs, along with 65 percent waste and endless hours of work and school time lost occur as a result.