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I'm pretty sure though they have to supply an 'itemized' list if you ask for one, which you can contest anything on the list and a lot of times take them to cou

• mikequinlan 7y ago
  In the United States each provider has up to 12 months to provide a bill and nobody is required to tell you who all of the providers were.
• pfranz 7y ago
  Here's how it went when I tried to do it upfront. My wife was pregnant, so we had 9 months of routine, scheduled visits. I asked "how much will this cost ignoring any unexpected costs." My insurance had a helpful PDF showing $650 as an out of pocket example with an asterisk saying not to use this number for reference. Reading up, some places offer a "package deal"--our's didn't. I was told to call the doctor's office and write down their itemized list of procedures. Then call their billing office to get an itemized list of billing codes. Then call my insurance to get the out of pocket cost. The final cost was a few multiples of that cited value (although there were additional, unexpected costs).