
During her annual OB-GYN visit, Callie Anderson asked about getting off the birth control pill.
“We decided the best option for me was an IUD,” she said, referring to an intrauterine device, a long-acting, reversible type of birth control.
Anderson, 25, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, asked her doctor how much it might cost. At the time, she was working in a U.S. senator’s local office and was covered under her father’s insurance through a plan offered to retired state police.
“She told me that IUDs are almost universally covered under insurance but she would send out the prior authorization anyway,” Anderson said.
She said she heard nothing more and assumed that meant it was covered.
After waiting months for an appointment, Anderson had the insertion procedure last March. She paid $25, her copay for an office visit, and everything went well.
“I was probably in the room itself for less than 10 minutes, including taking clothes on and off,” she said.
Then the bill came.
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