When without dental insurance, my dentist office put me on a special "no insurance" price list where I got much better quoted prices, because they knew they wer

When without dental insurance, my dentist office put me on a special "no insurance" price list where I got much better quoted prices, because they knew they weren't dealing with an insurance company with people dedicated to negotiating low rates for each specific procedure individually. They may not have been quite as low as insurance companies paid in some cases, but it was much cheaper overall. It's not like this is impossible or hard, it just takes the hospital actually caring about their patients enough to not screw them over when they don't have insurance.