Doctor’s and hospitals and affiliated labs have a real racket going on. They do not have to tell you what they will charge when they get your signature agreeing to pay (while you are of course desperately ill...). Then they send you a gigantic bill about a week later when all of a sudden they remembered their pricing.
Yeah, the office my doctor practices in has a deal with some 3rd party Lab, and every time he orders lab work for me, I get bills for each test a couple of weeks later, usually totaling around $75.... and I have insurance! They are real assholes too. If you don’t pay them immediately, they’ll send your ass to collections, and on your credit report it goes!
I can go to the hospital across the street and use their “Lab Direct” service(you can just walk in and request certain tests and pay cash), and pay only about $20 for the same tests. Every time he wants to do Labs, I tell him that I’ll just have them done myself and send him the results.
It’s been my experience they’ll accept around 40% as payment in full. But of course that will now be 40% of a higher price.