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For all the slams on insurance companies - folks should check out what your local hospital or physician group charges if you don't have insurance. I know every

• linsomniac 7y ago
  I tried that once, I had a procedure that insurance wouldn't cover if done at the hospital, but the hospital was the only place with the equipment to do it. I had experience with paying cash for procedures being dramatically less expensive, like half, so I called the hospital to find out the cash price. "So you want the price you would pay if you didn't have insurance and directly paid for it?" "Yes." "But you do have insurance, so you have to contact your insurance company to find out what their contracted rate for that procedure is." We went back and forth a few times, but she absolutely refused to give me a number for how much someone without insurance would pay for that procedure.