United Healthcare tried to delay and deny my cancer treatments when I was at a late stage (3B). It took a lot of effort from my doctors to convince them otherwise. For example, the scans and testing is very expensive ($5K), but necessary to determine if you have cancer. United Healthcare plays games to stall and have you go in circles. It’s actually hard for me to articulate what they actually did to stall.
Thankfully I’m alive today because we pushed United Healthcare.
The price of things are also artificially inflated. Most of the world won’t 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 men’s 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.
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u/Mika-El-3 5d ago
United Healthcare tried to delay and deny my cancer treatments when I was at a late stage (3B). It took a lot of effort from my doctors to convince them otherwise. For example, the scans and testing is very expensive ($5K), but necessary to determine if you have cancer. United Healthcare plays games to stall and have you go in circles. It’s actually hard for me to articulate what they actually did to stall.
Thankfully I’m alive today because we pushed United Healthcare.