$575

That's what my new medical oncologist charged for my new patient appointment a few weeks ago.

He met with me for about 25 minutes and went over my cancer status to-date. I helped him out with the several things he got wrong about my diagnosis and filled in the things he didn't know. So I'd say I did at least some of the work at this appt.

Then, after I got the $575 bill from the billing people with no indication what it was for, I had to make two calls. One to the billing people to find out what the bill was about and give them my insurance information so it could go through those channels since it hadn't, and one to his office to give them all the insurance info that I'd already filled out at my new patient appt. and that should have accompanied the bill to the billing people.

So now I've got about 45 minutes in on this.

My bill--$0.