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cbg
Mercy, that's pretty much my point. The OP is saying, well, the doctor should have told me there would be additional charges from the lab. Whether by that he means the doctor personally or the doctor's staff, the answer is pretty much the same; it is so much SOP for the lab to bill separately that I imagine anyone in the doctor's office would have assumed he already knew that.
(My dad is a doctor. Believe me, I know how it works and what gets done by whom. I was speaking collectively. Sorry if that offends you.)