Price Transparency and cost savings!
Cost savings on office-based Primary Care procedures, laboratory Services, Imaging Services and prescription medications.
From Dr. McGann:
"One of the big problems in Healthcare today is the lack of price transparency. What does this cost? I want to know up front! Why do we always get big bills after the fact? Was this good value for money? Can I get better value somewhere else? My deductible is very high, so I'm paying for this: How do I know my insurance is getting me a good price? Do they even care? Personally, I've always been frustrated by this."
Direct Primary Care has price transparency. It also has your Physician negotiating for you for better prices and better value. There are many instances in Primary Care where not using insurance for lab work, imaging, and medications is cheaper than using it.
One reliable resource to check on the costs of all things medical is the website Fair Health Consumer.
Please click the link to visit their website and feel free to shop around and see if you are getting value for money!
www.fairhealthconsumer.org/
Another good place for reliable information is Healthcare Bluebook:
www.healthcarebluebook.com/
Price list for some common blood work:
Some common blood tests done in the Primary Care setting. *Our cash prices:
- CBC $9 A Complete blood count
- Testosterone $20 - $50 depending of the extent of the testing, the male hormone
- CMP $12 a Complete Metabolic Panel (sugar, liver, kidneys, electrolytes)
- Estrogen $15, FSH $15, LH $15 the female hormones
- FLP $9 A fasting lipid panel to check on cholesterol
- TSH $9 Thyroid stimulating hormone to check on the thyroid. T3 and T4 are also $9 each.
- UA $3 urine analysis to look at kidney function or for infection
- HBA1C $9 a blood test used to monitor Diabetes.
Any many more! This is a small list of more common tests done at Primary Care Doctors office. In Direct Primary Care most blood work is not expensive! *Understand prices are subject to change.
* Roundabout cash prices for common X-rays with Family First Direct Primary Care with Dr. McGann:
shoulder: $25 per view
arm/humerus: $15 per view
wrist: $15 per view
chest: $25 per view
lumbar spine $24 per view.
hip $28 per view
knee: $22 per view
ankle: $22 per view
*Imaging is done at outside facilities, not at our Fern Ave office. Prices are subject to change.