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).

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'.

For someone with a different plan, they might have only had a $20 copayment. For someone with no plan, the bill would likely have been the 'list' $3550.

Given the results, I am still a Happy Puppy, not wondering if I have other advanced cancers lurking...