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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
You get "a discount" if you self pay. Depending on what you are having done, I literally pay an average of 40-60% less that I would with insurance.
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This may be the case where you live but not where I live. In fact I asked once about paying it right then and there at the Hospital and they told me I would actually pay 50% more than insurance would pay, they got a volume discount, if I paid up front I got no discount and would have been expected to pay the full price. Pissed me off that insurance got a discount when i am sure they are months collecting from them and I would get nothing for paying cash. Not the same everywhere I am sure.
Sounds more like they just didn't want the OP as a patient. Try another doctors office and I am sure someone will be happy to accept the legal tender in this country. Did you wear a shirt saying "I make PORN" or maybe "I saw your mom on crackwhore.com" ?