where NOT to pay for a consultation in a clinic?

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toriemannetje

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i need to remove a keloid in my ear and i went to see some clinics, the first clinic asked me to pay 300 so while i'm used to free consultations i was like OLVIDALO.

3 clinics later prices went from 2000, 3000 and i'm kidding you NOT 4000 for a conversation to find out if it's possible if they could help me!

well, 300 all of a sudden feels like a FREE consultation.

anybody knows clinics in santo domingo who offer free consulations because here it's not like you can look in their webpage to see the prices of certain operations.
 
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do you have dominican health insurance? no private clinic offers free consults without insurance and even with insurance you normally need to pay a difference. if 300 pesos is an issue then i have no idea how do you live here on daily basis? very puzzling.
in any case, a public hospital should offer free services to anyone. you may still be asked to bring some materials yourself (cotton, disinfectant and so on) but the visit should be free...
 
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Mauricio said:
So you visited three clinics to save 300 pesos!!!!???? Voor niks gaat de zon op.
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ahahahah, voor niks gaat de zon op! :p

nah, what happened was i first went to a free one but the waiting time is 1,5 hour and i ain't with that.

i went to an other one close to where i live and i didn't have money on me, so i was like why would you charge me?

then each time i needed to go somewhere, close to where i needed to be was a clinic, that made me rethink the 300!

so i'm just waiting for someone to give me a free one but i think i just have to visit the 300. it ain't that big of deal NOW.

jwz, we zijn gul maar we letten wel altijd op de centen!
 
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Derfish said:
It'd be closer to $300.00 in the USA. Where people are fighting against the idea of making such things more affordable.
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i can only speak for what i'm used in my country (the netherlands) and there you go on google and find all the clinics and after a simple phone call you find out of the consultation is for free or not and over there MOST of them offer it for free also most of them have the prices on the internet so i come from a background that:

1. you look the prices of the operation up first
2. you call to have an intake
3. you get the operation done

i didn't have 300 on me and 300 is still a pica pollo grande and bottle of presidente, i mean..
 
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toriemannetje said:
i can only speak for what i'm used in my country (the netherlands) and there you go on google and find all the clinics and after a simple phone call you find out of the consultation is for free or not and over there MOST of them offer it for free also most of them have the prices on the internet so i come from a background that:

1. you look the prices of the operation up first
2. you call to have an intake
3. you get the operation done

i didn't have 300 on me and 300 is still a pica pollo grande and bottle of presidente, i mean..
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If that's how it is in NL now things changed a lot in only 4 years. I would just go to my general practioner and he would refer me to a clinic or specialist who would carry out the procedure. I'd never see a bill and have no idea how much it would have been.
 
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But you're talking about a clinic! Doctors at clinics don't have free consultation, unless you have insurance, and It must be an insurance that they are affiliated with. Sometimes the insurance only covers a part of it and you have to pay something anyways.


300 is really cheap!!!
 
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RD300? It surprises me when people quarm about such small amounts of money here, those who refuse to pay a taxi fare from the airport into the city etc. how you survive in such an expensive country if you need to scrimp as much as that is beyond me. I would however like to learn the secrets to living so cheaply here, I am unable to.

My clinic charges RD600 without insurance, RD300 with.
 
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Here in NY, I have to pay a co-payment of 50.00 US just to see my doc. Then the copays for the blood work and meds.

I also have to meet my deductible of $1,500.oo before the insurance kicks in.

300 pesos = 300/spot rate of 41? = 7 USD
 
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I visited Montefiore Urgent Care Services in the Bronx NY. I waited six hours to see a doctor for 15 Minutes just for the flu. I asked if the accepted my medical insurance; they answered yes. A few months later I got a bill for $780.00 from Montefiore. Medical care in the US is pricey. In DR it’s not as costly.
 
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curlando said:
I visited Montefiore Urgent Care Services in the Bronx NY. I waited six hours to see a doctor for 15 Minutes just for the flu. I asked if the accepted my medical insurance; they answered yes. A few months later I got a bill for $780.00 from Montefiore. Medical care in the US is pricey. In DR it?s not as costly.
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Nowadays, Montefiore owns almost all the hospitals in NY. There presence is every where. :)
 
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And this, everyone, is a great example of how a European (or someone from any continent for that matter, even North America which is actually a part of the whole American continent) has no idea of how Latin America (or even the world outside their country) works.

Papi, gratis se murio!
 
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anyway, i went to the 300 clinic and the doctor was nice enough to talk to me at the spot free of charge! :knockedou

and grumpy, i think NOBODY has an idea how things work OUTSIDE of their country if they never been there before. it's not like you're dropping knowledge now.
 
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Sorry, myself as probably others anticipated that you were contemplating surgery and so lived here. This is not an emergency and so I expect if you were on vacation it would wait?
 
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grumpy said:
And this, everyone, is a great example of how a European (or someone from any continent for that matter, even North America which is actually a part of the whole American continent) has no idea of how Latin America (or even the world outside their country) works.

Papi, gratis se murio!
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It was a huge surprise to us when we were made to pay for everything before getting things done at Hospitals! We of course are used to not paying at all so paying before was CRAZED!!

I will never forget the pic someone posted on here of the dude on the stretcher being wheeled through a drive through ATM! I tell my friends back home and they think it is sooo wacked!
 
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HUG said:
Sorry, myself as probably others anticipated that you were contemplating surgery and so lived here. This is not an emergency and so I expect if you were on vacation it would wait?
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i've got a keloid in my ear, it's something like a lump. it doesn't look nice! i have to stay in this country for a while and i don't like walking around with it.

it happens when you put an earring in your ear and then it starts swelling.

so they need to remove it a.s.a.p.
 
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toriemannetje said:
and grumpy, i think NOBODY has an idea how things work OUTSIDE of their country if they never been there before. it's not like you're dropping knowledge now.
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Latin America as a whole is pretty predictable. It's all the same thing, you just don't know what degree of incompetence you'll find. I know it must be different if you're from Europe or whatever, but I don't think you've lived here for that short of a time that you don't know (at least a little bit) that NOTHING is free.
 
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