Hi, can you let me know where in Toronto I can get a cortisone shot for my knee? I believe I tore my meniscus and am in pain. I am visiting Toronto and have Quebec health card. Do I need a prescription to get one done? I'm in so much pain. Thank you kindly, Lisa
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Oh my goodness. I had the cortisone injection in each need today and they wanted to do the shot that lubed the knee also. they were checking with my insurance to see if insurance would pay for it but they didn't get back with him today and I go back in 2 weeks for another Cortisone shot in each knee and the lubed shot. I hope it doesn't cost that much. Doctor acted like it would because he didn't want to do it unless my insurance paid for it. he said he didn't want me to be stuck with the cost. :-/
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I have been suffering from migraines/tension headaches for years but the last few months they seemed to have gotten worse. I am needing relief. I have no insurance at this time so just wondering how much the price would be for cash patients?
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My wife and I also live in Canada, and the injection cost her 70 Cad. Not that enthusiastic as you are.
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Not everyone pays such huge expenses. As a veteran, I am entitled to free medical care, with exception of prescription and non-prescriptions for which I pay $5.00 for a month's supply. A year ago in June, I needed heart surgery for which the VA Medical Center was unable to provide. They wrote a purchase order for it to Mayo Clinic (yes, the world-famous one in Rochester, MN) for over $66,000. My only expense was the round trip drive from Minneapolis to Rochester...about 80 miles.
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I find that salary range VERY hard to believe. The lower number is far more than the physicians (35,000 of them in all) average far less than the lower figure you quote. Many of their surgeons are also professors at the Mayo School of Medicine and the University of Minnesota. No one makes that kind of money just out of residency. At least not unless your dad owns the clinic (perhaps).
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I find that salary range VERY hard to believe. The lower number is far more than the physicians (35,000 of them in all) average far less than the lower figure you quote. Many of their surgeons are also professors at the Mayo School of Medicine and the University of Minnesota. No one makes that kind of money just out of residency. At least not unless your dad owns the clinic (perhaps).
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That sounds more like what Chelsea Clinton is likely making working for the Clinton foundation doing something she knows nothing about.
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Another example of everything wrong with our broken healthcare-- The cost to produce a standard cortisone shot for a joint or back is $4...yes, FOUR dollars. The pharmaceutical company does a 500% mark-up for profit bringing the cost to $20 for a doctor.
The doctor then either bumps another 100% ( to $40) or as much as 1,500% bump to $300 for a $4 medicine--then in addition you are charged, often, in the hundreds for the "procedure" which is a 15 second thumb push of a needle into the inflamed joint/bursa whatever.....
This has to collapse upon itself someday--the medical field used to be an honorable profession. Now I liken them to lawyers and politicians.
The doctor then either bumps another 100% ( to $40) or as much as 1,500% bump to $300 for a $4 medicine--then in addition you are charged, often, in the hundreds for the "procedure" which is a 15 second thumb push of a needle into the inflamed joint/bursa whatever.....
This has to collapse upon itself someday--the medical field used to be an honorable profession. Now I liken them to lawyers and politicians.
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I'm getting lumbar injections at Spine Team Texas. I have Aetna Insurance that cost $1200.00 a month.
I still have to pay $4300.00 after Aetna pays
I still have to pay $4300.00 after Aetna pays
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