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Too many doctors are complicit in this problem.

Sort of ---but in a way the doctor was helping you because if you didn't have insurance, he was giving you a break ---you could be charged for the visit and have to pay out of your own pocket.

"Sort of ---but in a way the doctor was helping you because if you didn't have insurance, he was giving you a break ---you could be charged for the visit and have to pay out of your own pocket."

Yes, on the one hand he would be considered generous. On the other, and this was my situation, we had insurance. So, he was paid for not doing anything. The following year the insurance company added up it's costs and raise my rates to pay for services rendered. Did the insurance company eat the cost for this visit?
The insurance company didn't pay. The doctor didn't lose. Who ends up paying for it? ME!!!! Can I afford to pay astronomical rates so doctors can charge me to tell me the results aren't in? NO!