02-06-2015, 09:08 PM
rjmacs wrote:
[quote=C(-)ris]
I've just never had labs cost that much before. I may investigate having the routine labs done elsewhere and the results sent in.
This. Your insurer probably has a preferred provider agreement with a lower-cost lab (think Quest, etc.), where you go to their location, wait in a huge waiting room with a hundred other people, take a number and wait for a phlebotomist who may or may not have any real medical training. You can end up paying out the wazoo for 'convenience labs,' i.e. getting them drawn in the office and sent out.
FWIW, I find the wait time at Quest and the phlebotomists there are far better than at the hospital or my PCP.
YMMV