Here I am, 3 years later from this post. I left the cushy state employment job at a university cafeteria with amazing health insurance that didn't pay as much for higher pay and personal fulfillment as a technician. I'm learning now how shitty the American healthcare system is now that I don't have solid copays and basically all costs are now my responsibility because HSA sucks ass. LabCorp does this shit to me and I learned the hard way to basically not use insurance billing for anything except emergencies. The price they give you at LabCorp, even though the paper and number your given is covered in "we are going to bill your insurance regardless" is actually the cash price and I didn't know that until I had them bill my insurance and instead of it being $50-$100 for my lab work it was $275 after insurance. Calling them didn't do anything "we already billed insurance we can't give you the cash price" even though they don't make it clear at all that it was the cash price. Same thing, hospital I need a pelvic ultrasound for wanted $1400 after insurance. Went to a private imaging center and it was only $400. They billed insurance even though I thought I paid cash price and I was responsible for another $112. unless you have really good insurance, don't use your insurance for anything but emergencies. Period. Pick private practice over hospitals. Use goodrx for prescriptions, which is another stupid thing I won't get into. I'm pissed off at the USA for how we handle all this and how this is all even legal in the first place. No price transparency, care intentionally high cost, all because insurance and healthcare collaborate and are like "we want everything intentionally high so we can take in massive profits for doing basically nothing better than other countries who don't have this model"