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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
Hospital for the x-Ray but the $105 consultation was at an urgent care. And I forgot to add that after making me pay a $30 copayment before seeing the Dr, then charging my insurance $70 they sent me a bill for $5.
I understand that healthcare is expensive due to equiptment and personnel costs but I fail to see how insurance reform is going to lower the total cost of healthcare. You'd think the best way to lower the total cost is to cap what the providers can charge you ( i.e. Dentist legally cannot charge more than $300 for a root canal, $70 for a cleaning).
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They charge you the $70 for a cleaning but then add on unnecessary xrays and whatever else so then you're walking out the door with $270 less in your pocket. I think more people would get their 6 month cleaning if dentists didn't keep adding on services to rack up the bill. The last time I got mine cleaned they took me over to do xrays and, admittingly, I thought it was an automatic thing because I don't get to the dentist enough. (I keep up with brushing, have never had a cavity, and go whenever I absolutely need to because of how expensive it is) I didn't realize that I could refuse the xray because of course my regular dentist didn't see me (who I've been seeing since I was a young child), but his younger partner did. Funny too because he never mentioned that my wisdom teeth needed to come out, yet our family friend who did an xray for free soon after said "you better get those out like next week". Makes it seem like that xray at the dentist was completely pointless.
Ok that was longer than I expected lol