US healthcare is more expensive, but also wait times are ridiculous as well. it took me a month after getting a referral to an oral surgeon to even see the oral surgeon, then another 8 weeks to actually have the surgery. and the day of the surgery, i had to be in the waiting room 2 hours past my scheduled surgery time, then i went into the room and had to wait another hour there before anything happened.
if you don't know what a referral is, it's when you go to a doctor to get an official recommendation to talk to a specialist. so you have to go to your main doctor and pay for that appointment to get to the specialist, who then does their own consultation that you pay for to determine you need the thing.
this was all deemed critically necessary surgery and was done through my insurance which would "totally 100% cover everything" according to the billing specialist i had to talk to, which means i paid about $500 out of pocket.
Same deal, had to have semi emergency oral surgery and I ended up having to drive to a place three hours away to get an appointment less then six weeks out.
US healthcare is more expensive, but also wait times are ridiculous as well. it took me a month after getting a referral to an oral surgeon to even see the oral surgeon, then another 8 weeks to actually have the surgery. and the day of the surgery, i had to be in the waiting room 2 hours past my scheduled surgery time, then i went into the room and had to wait another hour there before anything happened.
if you don't know what a referral is, it's when you go to a doctor to get an official recommendation to talk to a specialist. so you have to go to your main doctor and pay for that appointment to get to the specialist, who then does their own consultation that you pay for to determine you need the thing.
this was all deemed critically necessary surgery and was done through my insurance which would "totally 100% cover everything" according to the billing specialist i had to talk to, which means i paid about $500 out of pocket.
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Same deal, had to have semi emergency oral surgery and I ended up having to drive to a place three hours away to get an appointment less then six weeks out.