Wait until they get the bills for the blood tests. There will be charges from doctors whom they never met.
Go in for a colonoscopy under Obamacare it is free unless they find a polyp and they remove it now it becomes a surgical procedure and subject to not your co pay as it used to be but goes against your deductible....enjoy America.
My husband had to go to the emergency room the first week of January because after kidney stone surgery ehe was having a very bad headache and his bllod pressure was over 220 over 100. All they did was run an EKG, test his urine (we don’t know why because he didn’t get the results until a few days later), and then they gave him some pills. It was over $1000 dollars and he was only there for like 2 hours.
He was smart and aked them if they really needed to take his blood because he had already had a blood test for the kidney stone. They still charged him, but we got that off his bill.
You are so correct about that.
In preparation for cataract surgery with my eye doctor had to go find a PCP for a physical. She ordered an EKG, visit to a Cardiologist, chest x-ray, extensive blood work and a stress test. Told her IMO that was overkill for cataract surgery.
Medicare denied all the blood work and so lab located in same office with PCP sent me a bill which was at 8 times the rate Medicare would have allowed. I paid them the Medicare allowance for three tests and told them they could write off all the rest, including the $20 charge they made for “Administration of Professional Guidelines on Chain of Custody Procedures Associated with Urine Specimens”. Also have received six other bills from places I never went for things I never agreed to. Just ridiculous.
Docs are so afraid of getting sued. Excessive testing should be justification for filing a lawsuit.