Poll: How much does your Fills cost?

Yep, another hospital in which you have to go through all kinds of hoops to get in their program and pay a $1500 program fee and $300 for adjustments.

As a self-pay patient, my first 3 months of fills were covered as part of my surgical costs.

After that point, I pay 50.00 for an office visit and another 50.00 if I get a fill or un-fill.

My surgeon is a big believer that Bands do not operate effectively if they are not maintained regularly -- so, he works hard to keep his fill costs low.

I factored 1 visit per month into my budget for the first 2 years (I did not go that often, but had the money in case I needed to).

Now, I see him once a year (and sometimes at his monthly support group meetings for free).

As a condition of being a PPO provider under my insurance, my surgeon had to provide global indemnification for 90 days following surgery for fills and any uncorrective surgery.

You are fortunate that you got a similar situation as part of her surgical costs, your doctor is truly a good person.  Tiffany (who has gone by a couple of monikers here) was self-pay and had a port issue during that first 90 days and her surgeon did NOT provide global service.  DR. THOMAS BROWN in Denver.  I don't recall the other lady's name but she had this surgeon as a self-pay patient and developed (again) a port issue within the first 90 days and also had to pay for the second surgery.  Some doctors treat self-pay patients pretty shoddy.  I don't get it, especially since, with their PPO negotiated rates, the self-pay patients can be more profitable than the insurance patients.

 In Manhattan, with NYU Langone with Dr. Kurian, the CASH price is $200. When I pay with insurance, I have a $60 co-pay and Aetna reimburses them $163