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My wife and I went to see a fertility specialist, lets call her dr pretentious, to put some embryos on ice as an insurance policy against her cancer treatment. Dr pretentious found a legitimate reason to declare me as a patient and refer me to another doctor, lets call him Dr Professional. Though Dr. Pretentious kept trying to pull me back for a follow up which I declined by saying "Dr Professional has a handle on it, if you want the scoop, get it from him, but I'm not paying for it." Then when going to my wife's appointment and going back to see dr pretentious with my list of questions on how we proceed post cancer. They decided to charge me for an appointment where the only interaction I had with the doctor about me was "How are you doing?" "Fine, Dr professional has me on chemical-x, but its messing with my vision." BAM! Bill for $100 in the mail. Now I did have a lab test with that clinic (should have been $400) about a week later that I never paid for because I tried to dispute the first appointment charge. I refused to pay until they got the bill figured out and settled. It will be two years in January. Meanwhile my healthcare coverage won't cover Dr Professional in January.
Getting back to Dr Pretentious... she told us embryos would be made a specific way and we filled out paperwork approving the procedure, and they performed embryo creation a different way which we didn't approve and said "don't do it this way." I got mad at the tech that reported it and Dr. Pretentious got on my case and demanded an apology "I'm the customer, I'm the one footing the bill, I feel I was lied to." Interesting how the prices for everything doubled after my wife was no longer a cancer patient. It ended up being 15 grand down the hole because prices were only cheaper while my wife was a cancer patent, and the genetic sequencing was going to be another 40 grand, so we pulled the plug and followed Dr. Professional's checklist for me, item two being "get your wife pregnant."

Ugh... started as a "I didn't pay about $500 in billing because they fucked up" ended up me realizing how much I wanted to throw a private practice doctor out her own office window.

My wife is going through cancer and I'm just curious... were your chemo treatments as outrageously priced as her's? We're looking at 32 grand for the first two.

My wife just went through breast cancer, stage 2b. First doctor didn't give her any choice, both breasts were coming off. Second opinion she was able to keep both so we can have another kid. After child #2 is weaned she is getting the double masectamy. Were you given any other options aside from double masectamy? Did you seek out a second opinion?