I got a colonoscopy done last summer.
Guess what? My insides were found to be completely free of cancer.
Procedure cost $33,000, including anesthesia.
Next checkup is in ten years’ time.
This is from Canada. A system that many Americans respect and believe is superior care. Many in this country want our health care to be modeled after the Canadian system.
That’s an astounding number.
The typical cost is around 2 grand.
Procedure cost $33,000, including anesthesia.
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You got ripped off.
https://healthcarebluebook.com/page_ProcedureDetails.aspx?id=73&dataset=MD
Seriesly? I would expect in the range of 3-5k$ tops.
For $33K they should have given you a blue ray of the procedure.
That is a ridiculous $ number. Cost data for this highly routinized procedure is available on line - I know, I checked before I had my done. My brother is currently dying from colorectal cancer. They found it during a colonoscopy, but then screwed up the operation contributing to a rapid metastasis.
Were you put under general?
$33,000?
My husband just had a colonoscopy in Singapore. Total cost was $3,550.00 Singapore dollars.
The difference in cost is amazing. Since plane tickets round trip are around $3000, medical tourism is worth investigating.
33,000?
That’s half what my open heart cost in 2005
Crazy
You can get a contrast CAT of the colon for about 1200 max
Your insurance way overpaid
I just looked it up
Average cost is 1500 but can go up as high as 15,000 if complications like multiple polyps or abnormal fold excisions
One company in Dallas and elsewhere called Colonoscopy Assist will do them including sedation and procedure etc for 1075.00
“Procedure cost $33,000, including anesthesia.”
Neither US or state governments (Medicare, Medicaid, etc.) or private insurance plans are paying that figure. Take a look at any hospital bill after processing by the insurer, and you will see that hospitals typically receive 10 cents or less on each dollar billed. Doctors also get a huge reduction in payments. It is a crazy billing system in need of overhaul so that the amount originally billed bears some resemblance to reality.
I got one done last year as well, in a local hospital. Claim amount a little under $7,000, which the insurance company knocked down to a little under $2,000. No co-pay by me. Included general anesthesia. (and I'm free of cancer, thankfully).
This was in PA.
Your colonoscopy cost too much. Mine was less than $6,000 and I also had a semi-Sigmoidoscopy.
This was in 2014. Had a couple of pre-cancerous polps removed (I’ve had them over the year so get a colonoscopy every 4-5 years, not ten, esp. if you are over 60).
Semi-signmoid found a bronchial lesion that had been bothering me for years. It was cauterized and I haven’t had a problem since.
Also, I was next to a young man (in his 40’s or at most, early 50’s) in our doctor’s in-house operating clinic. That day they found that he had a fully-grown cancerous polyp that was about to explode like a ripe mushroom head, which would have killed him. Talk about good timing.
Cancer killed both my parents (liver and leukemia) yet we had no general history of cancer in our family. Neither were smokers or drinkers. I had minor skin cancer and it was discovered only when something unusual started to grow on my arm. The other cancerous sites had been around for about 8-10 years but were not readily detectable.
A regular colon checkup every 4-5 years is one of the best insurance policies around. If you’re dead, you won’t have to worry about getting that 10 year exam.
Don’t be cheap! Be smart and stay alive!
What’s your point?