Explain patient financial obligations for services rendered

If you are a "patient", this means that you have been treated

by a doctor or a dentist. (or chiropractor, or rheumatologist, or ophthalmologist, or proctologist, or psychiatrist, or dermatologist, or otolaryngologist, or neurologist, or urologist, or physical therapist, or epidemiologist, or phlebotomist, or cardiologist, or etc. etc.)

"Services rendered" is the work that the doctor or dentist did for you.

"Financial obligation" is the price that the doctor or dentist expects

to collect in return for the work that s/he sold you.

"Patient financial obligation" is how much you gotta pay to the doctor

or dentist for what you had done. "Obligation" means it's now your

responsibility to see that the doctor or dentist gets paid somehow.

Whether it's a gift to you from your uncle, or coverage from a medical

insurance policy, or money from your own piggy bank, "obligation" means

it's up to you to make sure s/he gets paid.