I went to a well known weight loss place for my LAP-BAND®. The self pay price was @ 15-18,000. My insurance co approved the surgury and I didnt think anything about the cost. To my horror this place has billed my insurance almost $100,000!!! and insurance has paid this!!! This exact thing simultaneously happened to my friend who went to the same place and has a different insuance co. They charged her insurance $138,000. This was outpatient surgury!!
All the ads on here show cheap prices...what happened?! This eats into my lifetime insurance health cap.
The weight loss place said if you prepay/self pay its 18,000 but if they "assume the risk" of going through insurance they charge more. 10 times higher?! Are they loan sharks or doctors?
has anyone run into this?