Author: jonathanm1978

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:00 pm

I wouldn’t go and call this a typo without knowing, it’s VERY possible the charges are accurate…

The charges I incur for my urinalysis are right around $400…

My doctor doesn’t just do a drug screen though.

Here’s likely what they did to you — they tested your urine to make sure the suboxone is being filtered out properly by your liver. Most all Doctors will do this at some point during your visits to them, usually 2-3 times a year. They have to make sure you’re filtering out the stuff properly, and to be quite honest, there is a drug test they can do that tells them the amount of suboxone in your system at the time of testing, so they can tell if you’re taking the amount you’re prescribed or not. Almost down to the exact dose, just by doing the UA test.

I recently got a bill from the company that does it, $496 but that was before insurance…after BCBS paid, I owed them nothing. But this is probably some lab that doesn’t consider itself an "in-network" provider..there are labs coming along that don’t accept the "reasonable and customary charges" and they want to get a boatload of money from their doctors that use them….so they are "out-of-network."