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Does cost of living factor into fee schedules?
We are in a pocket where property taxes are from $10-20k+ per year...
I just had an office send me a fee schedule from a pretty large lab in the middle south. We are in NW IL. They like our work and pickup/deliveries by the tech. (me) but want us to match the fees of the other lab that is 600 miles away.The southern lab musta had a marketing department as their fees were hard to understand as they had many procedures a la cart. So when you added all the pieces together it was actually more expensive than our lab. DONE. I agreed to match straight up. They just gave themselves a price increase.... if only I could get them to pay their bill....
Where I was going with this is that the big labs have large overhead-- from rent to supporting staff... but down south housing is cheap ( I looked up the taxes-- $2000-3000 a year for a comparable dump) so employees do not need to make $80-100k a year to survive. Hopefully they will keep increasing their fees and carry little labs up the ladder with them. Greed and profit will save the day. We have a denture lab. If my theory doesn't work.... I'm toast.
We are in a pocket where property taxes are from $10-20k+ per year...
I just had an office send me a fee schedule from a pretty large lab in the middle south. We are in NW IL. They like our work and pickup/deliveries by the tech. (me) but want us to match the fees of the other lab that is 600 miles away.The southern lab musta had a marketing department as their fees were hard to understand as they had many procedures a la cart. So when you added all the pieces together it was actually more expensive than our lab. DONE. I agreed to match straight up. They just gave themselves a price increase.... if only I could get them to pay their bill....
Where I was going with this is that the big labs have large overhead-- from rent to supporting staff... but down south housing is cheap ( I looked up the taxes-- $2000-3000 a year for a comparable dump) so employees do not need to make $80-100k a year to survive. Hopefully they will keep increasing their fees and carry little labs up the ladder with them. Greed and profit will save the day. We have a denture lab. If my theory doesn't work.... I'm toast.