Mark, here in BC the charge varies from nothing to well over a hundred dollars. Medicare pays the doctors here on a negotiated? fee for service basis, but the doctor's office is still a private business and as such, fees for non medical services are left to the discretion of the individual physician.

I put a question mark after negotiated, because the current government of BC is presently in a big labour dispute with the doctors of this province. The government appointed an independant arbitrator to negotiate fee increases with the physicians and said it would abide by the arbitrators award to them and then renegged on their commitment to abide by the arbitrators decision.