> But today I just got a separate bill from the lab -- something I've
> never seen before -- telling me that the total bill for the routine
> bloodwork was over 400 bucks, and my share of that is $156.
I've just gotten over an inflammation of the eye, and apparently had blephoritis in the other one. My CUNY "student" GHI plan allowed a $27 co-pay at the opthamologist at which price I'll have gone four times before all is said and done. The drug plan is cash-only unless it's for diabetes medicines.
I had to get a 15ml bottle of stuff that dilates my eye ($50), and two bottles (5ml!) of cortisone drops at $115 and $90 respectively. I had mentioned to my doctor that drug prices had gone way up, and he remarked that the two cortisone products had been around since the mid-1970s, and should have gone generic long ago.
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