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Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jul 28 3:47pm | Replies (16)

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Thanks for explaining your thinking and decision making < 3 . At the moment we are battling $5600 Decipher test fee, for some reason insurance decided not to cover it at the end. I guess our "great" urologist on purpose did not declare it necessary since we insisted on it and he told us that he does not think we need it. We have $2,500 deductible so at this point we are already approaching over $ 8,000 even without future possible costs for this year. Our insurance never covers 100% even after deductible. Our cards are maxed due to inflation and cost rise first during pandemic and now due to invented "measures". I had some health issues also this year, also have $2,500 deductible and actually I canceled my foot surgery because we will not be able to pay for it on top of everything. As people in my old country say: "One can stretch as much as a comforter allows ." 😉

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So sorry, insurance is such a scam. I know that the actual cost of all this is like 10% of what insurance tells us and, in the end, it'd be far cheaper to pay out of pocket for everything. I blew through the entire household deductible of $9600 in December and then did it again in January, $20K cash out of pocket in two months when I know that the urologist gets paid like $1,200 for the entire surgery that the insurance tries to tell me is worth $35K.

Have you contacted Veracyte (the owners of Decipher) about that? In the brochure on their website they talk about a Veracyte Access program and my understanding from the table there is that the maximal costs to the patient should be $295:
https://decipherbio.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/MRKT-FRM-10040-E-Patient-Trifold-12-JUNE-2024-RGB.pdf