I am always dismayed when I get back "it depends". depends on what? I want a pure cash price. however it has been this way for decades having listened to my grandfather back in the nineties trying to by his wife a wheelchair only to be told he could not buy one and no they would not give him a price. so he did what anyone of his generation did, goodwill, salvation army, and finally found one at a garage sale. he just didn't think it right someone had to pay for what he needed for his wife but damn if the system stymies people at every turn.

the new billing fun I have is required visits for prescription refills on some medicines and that to me is just overbilling in a different form. I didn't need to visit other than to get permission to refill; no it does not necessarily need to be a controlled substance