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Location: sunny california | Can anyone tell me what they pay for hock injections? I just got a bill for $989 it included two views of each hock. two injection sites per hock. Am I crazy to be upset over this? |
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Location: Beggs, OK | The total bill for one of the vets I use would be easily less than $300. Others it would be around $500. |
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| I just had a horse done today. Lameness exam, 2 blocks, full xrays, 2 injections and a shot of Bute $556. Also not all injection are created equal. There are various qualities/potency of HA. My vet uses Hiviscus which is the top shelf stuff. It's $130 per injection.
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Location: Texas | iloveequine40 - 2017-02-21 8:53 PM
I just had a horse done today. Lameness exam, 2 blocks, full xrays, 2 injections and a shot of Bute $556. Also not all injection are created equal. There are various qualities/potency of HA. My vet uses Hiviscus which is the top shelf stuff. It's $130 per injection.
I doubt they put hyvisc in hocks. Thats usually only for high motion joints like stifles, fetlocks, coffin joints, etc. |
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Location: Texas | kwanatha - 2017-02-21 7:18 PM
Can anyone tell me what they pay for hock injections? I just got a bill for $989 it included two views of each hock. two injection sites per hock. Am I crazy to be upset over this?
is that all they did? or is there more? |
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Location: Opelousas, LA | Around here that would run about $450, if thats all they did and no high $$$ HA was used then that is pretty high, I would be upset. |
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Location: Oklahoma | Have you used this place before? I always ask step by step how much is this or that I cant have a bill that high! I always ask even to the ones I have used forever. Now they tell me without asking lol |
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| Was there an itemization on the bill? |
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| Turnburnsis - 2017-02-21 10:51 PM
Have you used this place before? I always ask step by step how much is this or that I cant have a bill that high! I always ask even to the ones I have used forever. Now they tell me without asking lol
Yep, that is what my sister and I do, too. |
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Location: Probably On the Road to the Next Barrel Race! | You got screwed over royally |
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| casualdust07 - 2017-02-21 9:33 PM
iloveequine40 - 2017-02-21 8:53 PM
I just had a horse done today. Lameness exam, 2 blocks, full xrays, 2 injections and a shot of Bute $556. Also not all injection are created equal. There are various qualities/potency of HA. My vet uses Hiviscus which is the top shelf stuff. It's $130 per injection.
I doubt they put hyvisc in hocks. Thats usually only for high motion joints like stifles, fetlocks, coffin joints, etc.
Yes he had right stifle and right hock injected. I should've clarified. My point was Injections aren't created equal and it shouldn't be that expensive. |
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Location: Smack Dab in the Middle | I had 3 horses at Oklahoma State on Monday and my whole bill was barely more than that!
One horse had a full lameness exam including the lameness locator, 2 full blocks done, 3 view radiographs on one stifle and two view radiographs on his heel, and injected both stifles. $730 |
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| I have noticed vets can range drastically in what they charge. Told a woman it was $12 for a fecal count at my vet. She was floored and said it costs $80 from hers. Couldn't believe it! |
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| The last set of hock injections I had done cost me $322. That was with a brief lamesness, sedation and the injection and a 2 month supply of PentAussie.
The time before that was right at $700. That was with rads (4 views each hock), a full lameness exam, 2 shots of legend (1 then and 1 take home), and the injections. She was diagnosed with spurs in both hocks.
I have kept her on the Pentosan injection once a month and use my magnet hock boots religiously. He told me she would need to be injected every 3 months. Right now Im going on 5 months and she is pain free. Im hoping to make it longer before she needs injections again. |
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| I understand that everyone has to make a living, but I think that SOME vets (not all), are getting out of control with their pricing! That's a ridiculous price for that procedure. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Sounds about right to me.....4 xrays and 4 injections....m |
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Location: North Dakota -> Colorado | Seems excessive for just the 2 hocks. Up here 2 injections per hock seems to be fairly standard however there is one that will do both upper and both lower on each hock. but still in those cases my bill has never been much more than 500-600 (not including radiographs). At one time, I had a horse that I injected 2 places in both hocks, 2 places in knee, and one in fetlock, had radiographs (around 4 I believe) and total was like $1100-1200. So it averages out to around $120-140 per spot, and on average around $60/view. Seems to be fairly standard. However I wasn't expecting to be injecting that much that day and boy that was a shock 
ETA: they still might have been overpriced by about $200 however, if additional stuff was done that needs to be taken into account
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The Advice Guru
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| Just the joint fluid costs 150 I use a human grade hylartil V, had great results with it
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Location: Oakdale, CA | barrelracinbroke - 2017-02-21 8:58 PM Was there an itemization on the bill?
exactly it also says 2 xrays each hock....... |
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Location: Florida.. | Our vets here and Im in Florida its about 600 for both hocks 2 joints per.....
xrays are roughly 30 a picture
trip charge 65
so maybe its a tad over but not by much but i have no idea what the going rate is in your neck of the woods .. |
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| A year and a half ago when I had one of my mare's hocks done, it was about $450. Farm call, brief exam, sedation, surgical scrubbing, and the injections. |
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Location: California | kwanatha - 2017-02-21 4:18 PM Can anyone tell me what they pay for hock injections? I just got a bill for $989 it included two views of each hock. two injection sites per hock. Am I crazy to be upset over this?
In California I would say you could EASILY pay that. I had hocks done without anything else and it cost around $500 at a small vet. I had a lameness on a sound horse with a few x-rays down in Monterey County at a large and well-known vet and paid around $800. In Texas, a few hundred could do it all (at one of the top vets out there) |
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| A little off topic, but just on the line of how vets can differ.. Our dog needed a lance canine removed at about 5 or 6 months. The specialist we were referred to quoted us $500 for anaesthesia  in her defence, it was going to be administered by a specialist in anaesthesia but my god my brain almost imploded... after all was said and done we were looking at over a grand to pull a tooth (they also wanted to take about a dozen xrays...  to pull one canine). We ended up going to the breeders vet and payed about 200 after all was said and done. Some vets pricing just doesn't make sense! |
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Location: Muskogee, OK | From a veterinarian standpoint it's always very interesting to see the different reactions to pricing.... It greatly depends on the area you live in and type of facility you are at (referral, academic, private practice etc).
I practice in a more rural area and charge $260 for a set of hock injections (which to me is verging on highway robbery- but it's what I've found I can charge in this area). This includes both upper (DIT) and lower (TMT) joint injections- I inject a combination of Legend (HA), Depo-medrol and Triamcinolone in each joint. I worked for a referral surgical practice closer to the city and we charged close to $400 for a set of hocks there.
Sedation runs about $20, and if I did a lameness exam ($50) + radiographs ($30/view, 2-4 views per hock). That total would be about $500.
What you have to remember about joint injections is you get what you pay for--- You aren't just paying for the medicine that goes in the joint. You are paying for the time/labor it takes to scrub (at least 5 minutes per hock), the expertise of the person knowing where to stick that needle in the joint, etc. along with all of the other medicine and materials you need.
Also, not all hock injections are equal. There are many practitioners out there that still only inject one joint (usually the lower, TMT). There are also many out there that don't use any form of HA in their injection, just a steroid and usually it is Depo. The addition of the HA adds on to the price. Ultimately before judging whether you are paying too much, consider your area, what they are actually injecting into the joint and what other procedures were completed. |
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| got boost? - 2017-02-22 1:32 PM barrelracinbroke - 2017-02-21 8:58 PM Was there an itemization on the bill? exactly it also says 2 xrays each hock.......
I was curious if they listed more detail such as what they injected with or??? And Which 2 joints? I know if they did uppers and added Hyvisc or some sort of HA, it can add more to the cost as well as some other things. So, still curious if there's an itemized bill with a cost breakdown? There's not a "cut and dry" injection. They're definitely not all created equal and the meds differ but, this seems super high! Did they use Hylartin V or something? It's great stuff (expensive) but, some vets in this area are not carrying it in the field any longer due to it being in a glass vile. |
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| My last visit hocks were 750 to inject upper,middle and lower joints. He is fusing and the top and bottom may not communicate.
Hoping to find someone a little less expensive. |
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Meanest Teacher!!!
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Location: sunny california | Sorry everyone i did not mean to abandon the post. computer problems. anyway. I can't remember the name of the medication but i know it was not the cheap meds. i saw an itemized bill but did not get a copy. they are supposed to send me one. There was nothing else on the bill. there were 4 xrays at $55 each the rest is injections and sedation. that is all. I feel ripped off. I have gone to alamo pintado and got better pricing. the bill came to $989. I am not in a rich area. The high dollar areas are 3 hours from me |
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Location: Cocoa, Florida | I paid less then $500, about $485 for blocking both hocks, and injecting both uppers and lowers in each hock, that's including sedation and i traveled to my vet. X-rays were $50 a shot when I did them as well before I injected. |
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Location: North MS | Outlaw Equine, 2 horses, 2 lameness exams, 2 x-rays. Right around $700 |
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| bluerose2001 - 2017-02-28 1:29 AM
Outlaw Equine, 2 horses, 2 lameness exams, 2 x-rays. Right around $700
Because they don't need to rape ppl on prices since their business is amazing! |
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