A woman at the clinic once said to me, "Ya know, this is a conspiracy! We grow up drinking milk and eating meat with all these hormones in it. No wonder millions of women can't get pregnant! It's an epidemic! Then these doctors want to shoot us up with more hormones! We have to pay thousands for them and suffer the side-effects just to get fibroids that have to be surgically removed anyway! And still NO BABY! Bastards!" That was at 6:30 am...but I'm not allowed to take drugs, right?
Doctors always want you to come back for a "consultation." Or what I like to call "milking the cash cow." I know the consultation is their way of explaining a procedure and to cover themselves so that you know that they are doing actual surgery. I knew this surgery was plan B from the beginning. We decided to do a number of IUI's and if they didn't work the doctor would dig deeper. So it's always been on the table...like a back up right?
The truth is when you have insurance (thank God for it) no doctor is going to make much money from you. When I looked at the actual bill for all the procedures I've had and then saw the amount that the insurance actually pays it's kind of pathetic. It's literally a fraction of the actual costs.
My clinic wants me to come back on the day I'm due for my period (if I don’t get it by then) just to take a pregnancy test ($30) later. In the past I just waited until the third day of my cycle because that's the day I start treatment again. But not today.
When I spoke to the doctor last week he wanted me to come in on the scheduled pregnancy test day because if I got my period we would discuss and schedule the surgery. Trickery! When I get there, the nurse takes my blood and tells me to make an appointment for the consultation for the surgery and an appointment for the surgery. Meanwhile the doctor is at his desk across the hall. "They don't do consultations in the morning." So I have to go back. $30 for today, $30 for the consultation, and $30 for the surgery. Hence...cash cow. Imagine if we didn't have fantastic insurance?
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