Veterinary Estimate Template
A treatment plan priced as a range, with the authorisation ceiling on the same page. Free PDF, no account.
A treatment estimate is handed to an owner in a consulting room, usually while they are frightened. It has to do two things at once: give an honest range for a procedure whose findings are still inside the patient, and record what the practice may do without stopping to ask. Both belong on the same page — the diagnostics that would change the plan, the range they might move it to, and the number above which somebody picks up the phone before proceeding.
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ESTIMATE
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Issued by
Harborview Animal Hospital
2418 NW Market Street 98107 Seattle, WA United States clientcare@harborviewvet.example |
Bill to
Imogen Baptiste
88 Fremont Crescent 98103 Seattle, WA United States i.baptiste@example.com |
| Description | Qty | Rate | Tax | Amount |
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Pre-anaesthetic examination and bloodwork Patient: Marlowe, 9yr neutered male domestic shorthair | 1 | $182.00 | — | $182.00 |
Dental radiographs, full mouth Taken under sedation; may reveal extractions not yet visible | 1 | $215.00 | — | $215.00 |
Anaesthesia and monitoring — 60 minutes, per 30 minutes Low case; the third half-hour sits in the high-case line below | 2 | $96.00 | — | $192.00 |
Scale, polish and the two extractions already visible Low case; each further tooth is 88.00 | 1 | $430.00 | — | $430.00 |
High case — four further extractions and a third half-hour under 4 teeth at 88.00 plus 96.00 of anaesthesia; billed only if the radiographs show them | 1 | $448.00 | — | $448.00 |
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What this estimate commits you to
- How long it stands
- Fourteen days for the plan as written. An animal's condition moves faster than a price does, and a longer wait means a re-examination before anything is booked.
- What it does not cover
- What cannot be foreseen from the consulting room: an overnight stay if recovery is slow, medication dispensed beyond the first course, histopathology on anything sent away, and referral to a specialist practice.
- What would change the price
- What the anaesthetised patient turns out to have. Bloodwork off-range that changes the protocol, extractions found on radiographs taken under sedation, a mass discovered and submitted for histopathology, and time on the table beyond the range estimated.
- How the client accepts it
- Sign the treatment authorisation at admission, naming the number we may reach during the procedure and the figure above which we must reach you before continuing.
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What to put on a veterinary estimate
- A low and a high figure for the plan, rather than one number that will be wrong in one direction
- Pre-anaesthetic bloodwork and imaging listed as what might change the plan, with what each costs
- Anaesthesia and monitoring priced by time, and the range of times the procedure usually takes
- Medication dispensed to go home, separated from medication given in the building
- The contact number and the authorisation ceiling above which the owner must be reached first
- What is not included: overnight care, referral to a specialist, and any outside laboratory work
Questions
Why give a veterinary estimate as a range?
Because the patient cannot describe the problem and the findings arrive during the procedure. A range with a low and a high, each itemised, is a clinical document; a single number is a promise about something under anaesthetic that nobody has yet looked at.
What is an authorisation ceiling and where does it go?
It is the figure the owner agrees may be spent without a further call, written on the estimate and signed. It is what lets a surgeon act on a finding at eleven in the morning without a phone in their hand — and what stops an owner meeting a bill they never agreed to.
Should the estimate include what happens if the owner declines?
Yes, in one line, and it is the hardest line on the form. Recording that the recommended plan was offered, priced and declined is a clinical record as much as a financial one, and it is the document that exists if the outcome is bad.
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