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Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | Here's the financial damage from my PET/CT scans, for which I just got the bill. BTW, it was a combined PET and CT scan (skull base to mid-thigh per my request for a full-body scan), also called a "Fusion" because of the software linking the two scans. I don't know what the cost would have been for a shorter set of scans.
Billed price for scans: $3050.00
Billed price for Doc report: 500.00
less network discount for scans: -363.65
less network discount for Doc: -250.00
Total 2936.35
My share, under 80%/20% plan $587.27
In this case, my cost is actually somewhat higher because I have not met my annual deductible, but I chose to exclude that because it is really a timing event and dependent on other services I may or may not have paid year to date.
For those who may not know what a 'network discount', that's an agreed price reduction from the 'list' price of the service between the insco and a 'preferred provider'.
Age 67 1/2
Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05
Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08
Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08
Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06
Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08)
Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08)
On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.
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