Fuckin moron. You ever work in a lab?
Suffice it to say I know what I am talking about. I don't need to share my qualifications with you.
I spent years working in them utilizing high tech instrumentation who's names you can't even pronounce.
Low information voters are impressed by big words, but go ahead and try me tough guy 
I had some blood work done recently. Simple garden variety shit. Liver enzyme, blood glucose, HDL/LDL/Total Cholesterol, triglycerides, CBC and BUN (electrolytes). Cost to my insurance? $900.
Was that what the lab charged? As I have explained to other low information voters like yourself, charges are really irrelevant. What you need to look at is what the insurance company reimbursed, which I suspect is a fraction of what was charged. You act like you paid cash. Therein lies the problem. You don't pay cash. You expect the insurance company to cover it. Remember your little "blip". You aren't fooling anyone. You shit your pants when the doctor told you that there was a blip and you didn't care what it cost, until of course you learned everything was ok. You probably threw a PVC (and no I am not talking about plastic pipes). I am sure you would have had a bigger shit fit had your physician sent you home with no further evaluation.
Now these are all simple wet bench chemistries and can be completed by a competent tech in about 10 minutes.
Actually, all of this is automated now. Only thing a lab tech does is pop the vial into the analyzer. The only hard about it anymore is knowing what color tube to use
Now out in the real world a half a dozen wet bench assays would normally cost around $25 each. So billing for this kind of schedule of test would be arond $150 and that includes about a 35% margin.
One of the test I frequently have performed is a Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure. It consists of a chemical extraction for 20 hours in a zero head space extractor followed by instrumental analysis of 43 analytes. 8 heavy metals analyzed in an inductively coupled argon spetrometer(ICP) and 35 organic compounds anlyzed in gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer (GC/MS). From soup to nuts to complete the full TCLP analysis takes about 4 to 5 man hours to complete. The actual cost to perform the analysis is far higher than the blood work listed because of the far greater amount of skilled labor required (5 hours for the TCLP and 10 minutes for the blood work) and the TCLP requires the use of two very high tech instruments as compared to no analytical instrumentation for the blood work. Yet the costs are essentially the same. Why would the blood lab work which requires far less resources, time and technical knowledge cost just as much as a far more time consuming and precise instrumental analysis? That's because of the lack of transparency in health care work. When I order a TCLP analysis I can call the lab, ask for their fee schedule and negotiate pricing. Ever try that with a hospital? Go ahead, try it. Find out how much it will cost you, in advance for some lab work. Good luck with that.
So before you accuse others of being low information people on a topic consider the fact that on this topic you're a complete ignoramous who knows exactly jack shit nothing about the subject.
