Hi Sophie,

That seems awfully expensive. I have found wildly different quotes for both blood work and imaging from different companies. The same CT can run $1200-$7000 depending on where you go. Blood work can run several hundred to several thousands depending on the company and how they bill.

Your insurance may balk or they may have a contract that allows them to pay a small percentage of that. Be careful. Depending on what state you live in you could be billed out-of-network charges for the full remainder. So called "balance billing" is legal in many states and some companies even try to charge when it IS in network. It is important for you financially to be sure what you're responsible for up front.

I sometimes elect to use either healthcheckUSA or privatemdlabs for blood work because it is so much cheaper. Both of them have a full menu of tests that are much more reasonable than most companies out there. I had several rheum tests done affordably.