What is the customary charge for a urine drug screen?

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17. Here's my experience!

Usually, they cost about $350.00 if done in the doctor's office and not sent out to a lab some where! What I experienced was that these Labs are some times very far away! One lab charged $1200.00 but the last time I had one I was totally astounded, and that's putting it mildly....my doctor sent it to California! To some chain of medical centers in and near Oakland! My insurance promptly denied as being not medically necessary and I'm going to have to stop seeing my doctor to pay this....are you sitting down...I now have to pay for a $7000.00 urine test! I'm not joking! It's Seven Thousand Dollars!!! I now can not afford to go to the doctor. It's going to take me more than a year to pay this! I sure would like to know what on earth constitutes a urine test being that outrageously expensive! Those tests are bought in bulk by doctors and hospitals for pennies! This urine test should be able to give me the winning lottery numbers for that price! So as to Customary charges....I think it just depends on how greedy the lab is!!!