Vet Charges for Office Visit? (unofficial poll)

[kashtin's kin]

Sorry, but as 14+ can verify, aside from text and pic posting, my er, 'puter skills are sadly lacking (thanks again , for rotating my stuff, Catuary Gal), so thought I'd do me an unofficial poll. I'm planning to call the Ontario Vet College to check out their policy re: vets setting fees for standard practices, and will contact some vets themselves with regard to office visit fees.

I have no particular axe to grind, but have been intrigued by the disparity in fees, which in my own experience don't correspond to the quality of care offered. I've long been a 'beneficiery' and advocate of the care and reasonable costs at Queensway Vet Clinic in Simcoe (oops, now they'll read it, and eeee?! ).

There, the charge for an office visit is $38.00; by comparison, the majority of clinics I've checked out so far extract app. $60 the moment one crosses the threshold (unless one executes a u-turn). Procedures such as S/N are also commensurately less expensive, i.e. about half the cost at Q'way than most clinics.

(I do understand some S/N are more complicated, and if extra tests are indicated/requested, the final bill will reflect that.)

This isn't a Q'way ad by any means-if EVERYone goes there, I won't be able to get in!! And of course, everyone has different experiences, and opinions when it comes to vets/doctors/accountants/lawyers ET AL. I've speculated that Q'way's fees may be lower due to: competition in area/lower overhead (no mortgage?)/volume and so forth.

I've never felt, BTW, that our critters' health was at all 'compromised'; the original Q'way vet is very experienced, and his younger partner was first or second in his class at Guelph/OVC (a vet tech told me this, not the modest vet himself). But more of the above is subjective, than I'd intended !

I'm just objectively!! interested in how much YOU pay for an office visit to your vet...am anxious to see what sort of price range exists, expecially within Ontario-but would be good to see how other provinces/states compare, also. Apologies for the length of this post...such a simple question . Thanks!