Simply refusing to pay or ignoring the bill results in the bill being sent to collection and your credit will be impacted. The only thing the lab was willing to

Simply refusing to pay or ignoring the bill results in the bill being sent to collection and your credit will be impacted. The only thing the lab was willing to do was to put me on a payment plan. In the end I didn’t pay a penny. I have good insurance so if they declined payment that must be for a good reason. So I researched that angle. It turned out that the test the doctor ordered was FDA approved, but not as a cancer screen, which is what the doctor ordered it for. I threatened to sue the doctor for malpractice, and she worked with the manufacturer of the test and the lab and made the bill go away. The manufacturer was pushing the test as a cancer screen, but the doctor should have checked if it was FDA approved as a cancer screen.