Office vs Hospital Outpatient Pain Clinic: The Facility Fee That Makes Your Injection Cost 2–4×
The same injection can cost 2–4× more for one boring reason: you didn’t upgrade the medicine—you upgraded the building. When a pain clinic visit is billed as hospital outpatient (often a hospital outpatient department / HOPD), a second charge can appear: the facility fee. That’s the moment people feel “surprised,” even when nothing went clinically … Read more