Reply to Vet fees

Forum Index » Pets

Reply to "Vet fees"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you really want to use Groupon to find a medical professional to put your dog under anasthesia and basically do surgery?
A dispensing fee is completely normal. It covers the cost of staff and having the drugs at a vet. Typically, you don't see this fee broken out but the margins are so small on drugs that veterinarians would not carry them if for not being able to cover their cost.
$1300 is more than reasonable for extractions and a teeth cleaning. [/quote]
Its definitely not reasonable to refuse to give an accurate estimated cost upfront.
Dispensing fees are not the usual practice in any office that I have ever used and I'm pretty darn old. I have also foumd that the cost of meds at most practices is not much, if any, higher than Costco/Sams or a reputable internet pharmacy. If the OP is describing this accurately, yes, she is being taken advantage of.[/quote]

+1.  I've gone to some expensive (and in some cases, I would argue overpriced) vets over the years but never felt taken advantage of because they were up front about the costs.  Doesn't sound like that is the case with this vet.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics