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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
....$1789.00
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this is why healthcare is so expensive... most people without health insurance ( i dont know if thats the case with you or you just needed to go after your dr's hours) go to the ER for general treatment because they dont turn you away (at least the public ones)...
er care is ridiculously expensive and they have to write off a shitload of unpaid bills.
i needed to go see an ENT dr a few weeks ago and my dr was out of town. they wanted me to come in to get a refferal and i would have needed one if i wanted my insurance to pay for it..
its $30 copay to see my internist..
i couldnt wait. i went to the ENT and paid cash. do you know what i paid? $70..
do you know what my copay would have been for a specialist? $60
so it would have actually cost me more $30 + $60 to get what i got for $70
so for $20 less i went to who i wanted, when i wanted...
btw.. i pay $300 a month for health insurance and yes i do realize that i am paying in case of a "catastrophic"
health event...
if you dont have health insurance and need to go to a dr, always ask them what their cash rates are..
it seems cash is still king and especially in medicine...
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