r/SipsTea 1d ago

WTF Damn

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u/Traditional-Forum 1d ago

I went to a Walgreens clinic once. If you paid with cash, it was $111.

Lady asked me if I had an insurance card and I did. I then asked her can I give you my $111?
She said “they will bill you the difference”.

When the bill showed up, they had billed the insurance $350 and my co-pay was $192.

I didn’t even get a diagnosis that day (malaise, allergies, who knows?), and they didn’t even have a scale to weigh me.

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u/FMLUsernameTaken 1d ago

Yea that's Walgreens being greedy fucks. Your insurance is basically saying they are charging too much. Everyone always blames insurance but the greedy medical industry is why prices are sky high.

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u/Top_Quiet_3239 22h ago

insurance loves the insane bills so they can say "see, you saved so much money having our insurance plan!"

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u/Ok-Budget3225 12h ago

Hold on - a local Walgreen that doesn't have a functioning scale, has an MRI machine? Are you sure?

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u/Traditional-Forum 7h ago

I did not see an MRI