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| - Overpriced legal drug dealers. I can't go through life without pain medication, and I am chronic/incurable. As a cash pay customer with no insurance, they charged me $104.00 just to speak to someone- that was just raised across the board to $162 minimum. Then they drug test you every 30-60 days.. $300+ dollars a pop until you tell them you're cash pay, and you spend some time on the phone, then you may be able to talk them down to 220ish. Oh yeah, then the drugs.. the reason I'm here- so that I can do what little work I can still do to pay my bills..with no insurance and being written for 250 pills a month, OxyContin and hydrocodone, I pay around $550 a month, at the cheapest place to get them, Costco. So if you're a disabled cash paying customer like me, and you have about $830.00 a month to waste on drugs and appointments, it's great!! I've never considered illegal Mexican/street drugs more in my life..
The waits are RIDICULOUS. Every single time. There is a form that is pages long that you need to fill out EVERY single time you come with the most ridiculous/redundant questions. If you have brain and nerve damage like me, and you have difficulty concentrating, it will really exacerbate your symptoms.. someone is always arguing with someone at the window.. and though a few of the girls are nice and obviously run the place, they are jaded and many are young new girls that obviously work for cheap. Forget calling - it is easier trying to herd cats. After two years, I think I'm done here- I don't even want to think about what I just spent over the last 24 months..oops I just did.. $20,000.00+. ***Imagine what they make from charging people with insurance and benefits...***. There is SO much more that is SO awful and ridiculous, but I just don't have the time. This is definitely a money machine for someone, and the care is certainly second to profit. If you can do anything else, or go anywhere else- do it.. clearly everyone says the same thing about The Pain Center..it's just a miserable experience all around.
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