Doctor charges me $855 for a knee brace I can get on Amazon for $155? Why is

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Apr 21, 2021
2:40:26pm

Iman23 Truly Addicted User

this acceptable?

I told the Doctor I am cash pay. I do not have insurance.

Our system is so friggin screwed up.

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Iman23

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Doctor charges me $855 for a knee brace I can get on Amazon for $155? Why is

Iman23

4/21/21 2:40pm

The doctor sells his/her own knee braces? I’m surprised they just didn’t give you a prescription to go pick one up at

Slim

4/21/21 2:41pm

if they did that, they wouldn't be able to charge a 550% markup.

CougarTwins

4/21/21 2:43pm

Doc says your son needs a knee brace (tore his ACL)...and has one in the office

Iman23

4/21/21 2:45pm

Huh. Weird. I have no idea how common that is. I don’t own my own practice and every equipment prescription I write is

Slim

4/21/21 2:47pm

I had ankle reconstruction surgery in Dec. 2018. My ortho surgeon's office provided me with the leg boot post surgery

SierraCoug

4/21/21 3:04pm

My ortho is the same. They brought out the brace while I was there. My wife

LaserCoug

4/21/21 3:20pm

return it and say we don't need this

BYU Grounds

4/21/21 3:46pm

Is the charge only for the brace or is it the physician fee, etc?

Jelly Man

4/21/21 2:42pm

physician fee was $401. $209 to drain the fluid and another $200 for Xray. I

Iman23

4/21/21 2:47pm

If we had single payer, your son would still be waiting to get in. Transparent

gwalker

4/21/21 2:52pm

Worked in the Netherlands for a bit. Wait was no longer than in US.

McGreevey

4/21/21 2:59pm

In small homogenous countries it can work. In a very large, diverse country like

gwalker

4/21/21 3:05pm

Single payer may very well work better in other countries than in the US

McGreevey

4/21/21 3:16pm

The ratio of would be abusers in this country is too high. The government would

gwalker

4/21/21 3:21pm

And that doesn't even get into the supply side in which health care providers

gwalker

4/21/21 3:22pm

I share some of those same concerns but I guess I don't see an average American

McGreevey

4/21/21 3:44pm

How does single payer solve that? I'm not trying to pick a fight but

mudpupper

4/21/21 3:03pm

Single payer solves nothing. I am not sure the reason why you don’t have health

Jelly Man

4/21/21 3:47pm

Kind of a jerk move. If a patient tells me he is self pay, I go on Amazon

Medute

4/21/21 2:54pm

You should call their billing office and explain the situation.

Cheesy Gordita

4/21/21 2:58pm

Yah. See if they’ll take the brace back? It does seem unfair.

Slim

4/21/21 3:00pm

Call them and tell them you are cash pay.

DwideCougar

4/21/21 3:28pm

I'm guessing its made by Apple? Just pay it, don't ask questions. Its better.

Moops

4/21/21 3:31pm

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