When you make a donation to Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clinic, your money goes a long way. In fact, it goes a lot farther than what you spend on your own health care.
Here’s what we charge our patients. Some of them can’t afford even these prices:
Thirty dollars buys one office visit, a tooth extraction, or baseline blood work. (One of our staff members noted that her insurance billed $661 for the same blood work.)
An echocardiogram (EKG) costs $20 at the Clinic.
If we have them in stock, we charge $5 for common medications such as routine antibiotics.
A dental filling is $60, and teeth cleaning $50.
These low prices are the result of careful management. Many of our medical and dental providers are volunteers (though all are skilled and experienced).
Nevertheless, the actual cost of each visit is much more than the prices we charge. Every time a patient walks in, the cost to us is $94.42, not the $30 we charge. We have to make up that $64.42 deficit through fund raising, grants — and, of course, donations.