Paying for a biopsy

I am sorry this is happening to you. Did you have a mammogram then an ultrasound? The good thing about going to the BS is that she can order a MRI. I know it is expensive, but if it is cancer you need to have a plan and she can help you. There was another who posted that she had implants and they were able to do the lumpectomy and her implants were fine. The BS might have options for you to consider. Sometimes it takes 2 or 3 months to get the bill and maybe you could pay so much each month. You don't want to take a chance on your life. Good luck to you.

I have insurance but with a high deductible. My recent biopsy, after insurance, was over $2,300 for my share. I paid $215 and the hospital said they will work with me on the billing for the rest. I've been told by the breast surgeon I will need another biopsy because they think they may have missed my lymph node, one of the spots they biopsied, and so I will have to pay AGAIN. At some point, the money doesn't matter. I switched insurance for January to have lower deductible and out of pocket maximum. If you do not have insurance, you need to get it. At least long enough to find out if you have cancer, and then if you do, keep it. You didn't say if you can get it, I hope you can! Hugs! Edit; Just to add that I'm single Mom and only provider for myself and son so I understand the position you are in. But at the end of the day, this is your health, your life. You need to find a way to get tested.Worry about how you will pay for it later!

if you don't have insurance, NOW is absolutely the time to get it, before you have a positive cancer diagnosis as a "preexisting condition"! Yes healthcare and health insurance in this country is often cruel and pathetically inadequate. I purposefully never married my long term partner, just so i could continue to qualify for my state's excellent free healthcare assistance. And thank God I have it; this diagnosis would've ruined us financially. But a birads 4 result is serious and worth following up on, and that WILL cost money, even if it's benign. A few hundred dollars is just the start of it all; treatment can last years. Bear in mind often times results are unclear and even more $$ testing and scans are required, and costs can quickly spiral out of control. Even if you have to pay hundreds of dollars a month for it, I strong encourage you to sign up for a good quality health insurance NOW. If you qualify for assistance, look into that ASAP- this is no time to procrastinate or make your work schedule the priority- take the time to get your health coverage in order now, before a potential diagnosis hijacks you with a constant stress and a slew of Dr appts and scans and tests.

I'm sorry you're going through this. But please don't blame the doctor for not knowing what a procedure in a lab costs. It's not something their office would know, and they're not hiding information from you. Is this a teaching hospital you're using? Most of them have clinics with sliding scale payments based on income, but you have to set it up with the billing office first.