If you can get a script from an endo try going that route and just manage your own care. Sure they are clueless but you will save a lot of money. There are a lot of clinics that aren’t that great either and they cost a lot more money.
As far as how it compares to other clinics it is pretty average. $150-$200 per month seems typical. Script from an endo and 2-3 labs per year will cost much less.
If $166 a month covers all labs, meds and consults then that isn’t bad IMO
That’s good to know, I’ll go this route and after 6 months I’ll switch up PCPs and try again for a script, and so on. Eventually they have to see that I’ve been on the medication long enough and hopefully will treat me so I can use my insurance. Thanks for the input everyone.
I wouldn’t worry too much about insurance. Test is very inexpensive and in most cases is less expensive without insurance using goodrx. You can also get private labs that cover just about everything possible for $500. Test and 2 extensive labs a year will run about 1K. Throw in a doctors visit every 6 months and it is still cheaper than a clininc.
Insurance isn’t really the issue… T is dirt cheap at CVS or whatever pharmacy you want to use with GoodRx. The issue is most T clinics won’t give you a regular prescription. They will only send it to a particular pharmacy of their choosing with prices 3-4x higher than CVS would charge for the same thing. I assume they get a kick back or something but I don’t know that for sure.
If you can get a regular prescription and buy the T from a pharmacy that helps a lot on costs.
The other thing is labs. Pretty much the same, a lot of TRT places want you to buy the labs through them and won’t submit to insurance. I finally got the place I’m using to request labs in a way that insurance will cover them so it should bring my costs down quite a bit, finally
Regardless, the price they’re telling you really isn’t bad if it truly covers everything and they aren’t idiots and don’t put you on some crazy protocol. If you can let us know your labs and what they prescribe I’m sure several people here can point you in the right direction.