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- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!oasys!schroede
- From: schroede@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Erwin Schroeder)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Source for Range of Medical Fees?
- Message-ID: <29601@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 14:43:37 GMT
- Reply-To: schroede@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Erwin Schroeder)
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
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- I recently contributed quite a bundle to my local dentist.
- Although I suspect that his charges are toward the low end
- of the range, it occured to me that I really have no idea of
- the range of charges other than asking a few friends about
- their experiences which still doesn't answer the question.
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- Is there any source available to the public from which the
- most usual range of fees for medical procedures ranging from
- an appendectomy to a root canal can be obtained?
-
- Of course such a range would be fairly large, and would vary
- with location. Nevertheless, if one were anticipating paying
- say $500 for a particular treatment, it would be more than
- interesting to know whether the range for that treatment was
- $200 to $500, $400 to $600, or $500 to $1000.
-
- Thanks,
-
- Erv
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