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So I just opened up my mail and got a $2000 bill from my son's developmental pediatrician. I see a bunch of numbers adding up to $2000 and none of them mean anything to me. I'm like wtf?
On the initial visit we paid a $60 copay, the rest would be billed to our insurance (which is a platinum plan from United we obtained through the exchange), spent around 45 min with the doc and received some initial impressions. No additional work up or testing.
I'm thinking **** my wife is a child psychiatrist and charges $450 in cash for initial evals... Chump change in comparison.
In retrospect I should have asked how much the total out of pocket initial evaluation would be but I figured it was somewhere in the $300-$500 range... Not in the thousands....
On the initial visit we paid a $60 copay, the rest would be billed to our insurance (which is a platinum plan from United we obtained through the exchange), spent around 45 min with the doc and received some initial impressions. No additional work up or testing.
I'm thinking **** my wife is a child psychiatrist and charges $450 in cash for initial evals... Chump change in comparison.
In retrospect I should have asked how much the total out of pocket initial evaluation would be but I figured it was somewhere in the $300-$500 range... Not in the thousands....