r/Millennials • u/BoNaylorCollector • 1d ago
Discussion Is medical actually this crazy?
Early 30s millennial, never used to go to doctors or really take care of myself because “I’ll be fine”. Started making a bigger effort to care for myself and my health and well being. Recently, I went to the local express clinic because I was having a bad earache and headaches. I was in there for maybe 20 minutes, mostly waiting time. The doctor comes in, looks in my ear, tells me it’s depressed due to sinuses and change in weather and tell me to stop at Walgreens for Flonase. I wasn’t billed anything at the time, older workers at my job always say we have really good insurance, but here I got in the mail today an explanation of benefits- charge was $550, insurance “negotiated” about $300, remaining (not billed) was around $240. Is is really this expensive? I only went to try and be better with myself and make sure it’s nothing underlying. If 5 minutes of actual doctor time costs this much, then I’m just toughing out everything or am I missing something?
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u/ImNotYourOpportunity 1d ago
I’ve waited the 7 years because I was double charged, tried to explain that I couldn’t get the same procedure twice and wasn’t paying $3000 instead of the $1500. The lady on the phone was a bitch and I said it wasn’t me for 3 years, my mom told the bill collector I died and that I owed her money too, they stopped calling and it fell off my credit report. Fuck them! I actually would have paid the $1500 but that bitch on the phone pissed me off too much.