It is our goal to provide an excellent service for your pet at a fair price. Payment is expected at the time service is rendered. For your convenience in addition to cash or checks, we take Mastercard, VISA, Discovery. Compared with it's human counterpart, veterinary medicine is still one of the great buys it terms of cost for quality of service rendered. Third party insurance is also now available for pets to help share the financial costs. It may be of interest to note that in a survey taken in 2000 of 41 Veterinary Hospitals in Southern California in 19 categories, prices charged by Palmdale Veterinary Hospital were BELOW the average charged by all the hospitals in every categories except 2! We encourage you to ask at anytime for estimates and itemized charges. Your final invoice will detail each itemized charge so you will see what you are paying for.