Cost of Blood Test?

[bit-o-honey]

I recently received a vet bill where the cost of a CBC done in-house is $125 per horse (egads!) Could you share with me what you have been charged for a CBC and your general location (perhaps the cost of vet care varies depending on where you are located to a certain extent)? Thanks for any info you can provide!

[lizajane09]

In FL (near Ocala), I believe I paid $104.50 for a CBC/chem in November, but I don't recall if it was performed in-house or shipped out to a lab. My guess would be in-house as it was from a relatively large practice. That did not include the farm call to draw the blood, however.

[jaimebaker]

Just a straight CBC runs me $25-35 depending on vet. If I do a full chem panel it runs anywhere from $35-75 depending on vet. I have one vet that's awesome that charges me $42 for CBC and full chem panel. And her barn call isn't but $50 too. All of those prices are for vets to come out and don't include farm calls.

[AKB]

Was anything else included with the CBC (e.g., farm call, chemistry analysis, pathology report because the CBC was extremely abnormal)? Was a special courier needed or did they have to bring in an on call lab tech late at night because of an emergency? What was the situation that necessitated the CBC?

[RedMare01]

Last year I believe I paid about $60 for a full panel, not including the farm call and shots given at the same time...then the vet tried to charge me $32 for a five minute phone call about the results (nothing abnormal). Did get the phone call taken off the bill.

Caitlin

[Grataan]

It sounds reasonable, especially if it were STAT ( our lab charges us $50 to run a stat panel)

[dutchboy]

CBCs are $49., and then you add on the visit charge (shared or otherwise) and it runs about $60-$70. Ours are done in-house.