• Shelena@feddit.nl
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    9 months ago

    It is quite shocking that it costs so much. Is it plastic surgery because it is in the middle of your face, or something?

    I had a mole removed recently on my arm. It took a general practitioner about 15 minutes and all he used were some alcohol swabs, a scalpel, a syringe with something to numb my skin and some thread for closing the wound. How can that be 800 dollars plus insurance?

    I checked my insurance and they paid €127,02 to remove it in total and then it was sent to the hospital to check whether it was cancer and that cost €120,16. (Fortunately, it was not cancer.) It was completely covered by my insurance, I never got that bill. That is a really big difference in price.

    I am not posting this to be mean or something. I just wanted to know whether the difference is as big as I thought (and maybe also how angry I should be on your behalf). It is really unfair that you have to pay so much and that it is not covered by your insurance. I really hope that this stuff will change.

    • wellee@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      They charge it because they can. No it wasn’t plastic surgery or anything. And yep it took less than 15 minutes. Private Healthcare is robbery.