Amye
Well-Known Member
Hello everyone,
At the moment my horse is being investigated into lameness. The vet came out last week to see him and do his vaccinations. I've received the invoice for the visit and in the breakdown is: 'Lameness consultation: £56.00'.
I know vets don't come cheap! However, the vet literally spent 5 minutes with my horse. She watched him trot up and then prescribed bute and rest for a week and to see how he is after a week. It took as long as it took for her to do his vaccination (which came to £40).
I'm thinking of querying this with the vets. I don't want to cause a fuss but it does seem a lot for the time she spent with him, the vet is new to the practice so I was wondering if she had put she'd investigated a lameness and this is just a generic price? If he had been lunged or flexion tests or something had been done and a bit more time spent with him, I'd think fair enough. But £56 for literally watching a horse trot up and down seems a lot?
A couple of people have told me to query it (one of which was there when the vet was with us so knows what went on).
I know in the grand scheme of things it's not a huge deal, I don't really know what I'm doing as I'm going to have to claim for the scan of his leg and I assume this would come under it too? Which makes it seem a bit trivial but I'm assuming I'm going to have to pay it for now before the insurance decide to pay out or not?
At the moment my horse is being investigated into lameness. The vet came out last week to see him and do his vaccinations. I've received the invoice for the visit and in the breakdown is: 'Lameness consultation: £56.00'.
I know vets don't come cheap! However, the vet literally spent 5 minutes with my horse. She watched him trot up and then prescribed bute and rest for a week and to see how he is after a week. It took as long as it took for her to do his vaccination (which came to £40).
I'm thinking of querying this with the vets. I don't want to cause a fuss but it does seem a lot for the time she spent with him, the vet is new to the practice so I was wondering if she had put she'd investigated a lameness and this is just a generic price? If he had been lunged or flexion tests or something had been done and a bit more time spent with him, I'd think fair enough. But £56 for literally watching a horse trot up and down seems a lot?
A couple of people have told me to query it (one of which was there when the vet was with us so knows what went on).
I know in the grand scheme of things it's not a huge deal, I don't really know what I'm doing as I'm going to have to claim for the scan of his leg and I assume this would come under it too? Which makes it seem a bit trivial but I'm assuming I'm going to have to pay it for now before the insurance decide to pay out or not?