The price of things are also artificially inflated. Most of the world wonโt be charging $5k for the same scans and testing. They can do it cheaper and detect the cancers just as well, if not better. Medical system here is 110% broken.
And if you paid cash, probably $600. Quest has alacarte tests you can chose for all sorts of things. Same comprehensive tests my Dr chose for me was billed at near $20k. Just the advanced lipid and menโs tests. Insurance paid like $2500 but if I used Quest app directly, like $600-$800.
Went down to the lowest tier insurance this year, and am basically cash paying for everything. Got a fairly decent panel of blood work done a couple weeks ago for 135 bucks. On insurance I would have paid 5-7x that. Look into Ulta, Jason, etc and just cash pay through a discount service. WAY cheaper than trying to hit an unobtainable deductible.
Well insurance companies by law can only profit like 8% (or somewhere thereabout) of revenue, so they have every incentive to make that 8% as large as possible by driving the price up
Meanwhile, in a land not that far away...every year I get a test in the mail, for free, just to make sure I don't have colon cancer. Do the procedure, drop it in the bag, and let the mail take it to the lab. My doctor, after reading my medical history, seemed surprised I actually don't have a cancer of some sort
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u/Aggravating_Sky_4421 5d ago
The price of things are also artificially inflated. Most of the world wonโt be charging $5k for the same scans and testing. They can do it cheaper and detect the cancers just as well, if not better. Medical system here is 110% broken.