**7. What can you pay today?**

I fought her on it for a week. I said it was invasive, I said it put the burden on the patient, I said nobody wants to write a number.

She said, “They’re already thinking about the number. You’re just deciding whether they have to think about it alone in a parking lot.”

Andre Boone brought Zaya in for her follow-up in June, running, furious about having to hold still.

He put forty dollars on the counter toward a balance that Denise had already quietly zeroed, and Denise took it anyway, because she understood exactly what it was, and wrote him a receipt.

Question seven on his form said **$40.**