Do you have medical insurance? If not you can probably negotiate this down, how much I don’t know. Or get on a payment plan and they will take whatever you say you can pay, even $25 or less a month. I personally would just stick it to them!
So you think you would stick them — again someone who spent over $300,000 on education to have the privilege of taking care of patients, who by law had NO RIGHT to turn the patient away, yeah -— stick it to them. You have the right to the labor of someone else.
You, too, would be more comfortable over at DU. Why not head over there.