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Dr. likes the work but is requesting we match fees of a southern lab 600 miles away...
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<blockquote data-quote="nickate" data-source="post: 256459" data-attributes="member: 515"><p><strong>Does cost of living factor into fee schedules?</strong></p><p><strong>We are in a pocket where property taxes are from $10-20k+ per year... </strong></p><p></p><p>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....</p><p></p><p> 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.<img src="/forums/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/bag.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":bag:" title="bag :bag:" data-shortname=":bag:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nickate, post: 256459, member: 515"] [B]Does cost of living factor into fee schedules? We are in a pocket where property taxes are from $10-20k+ per year... [/B] 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.:bag: [/QUOTE]
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