A 36-year-old woman has been charged nearly $18,000 for a breast biopsy despite having health insurance — only to find out she could have been billed just $2,100 if she had offered to pay the cash price.Dani Yuengling, from Conway, South Carolina, went to see her doctor early this year after noticing a lump on her right breast. She feared the worst because her mother had died from breast cancer five years earlier.The HR worker was referred to the Grand Strand Medical Center, in Myrtle Beach, for a biopsy — with a quick check of the hospital's expenses calculator showing an uninsured patient would be charged $1,400. Yuengling hoped her health insurance with Cigna — one of the nation's largest insurers — would help offset the cost.
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