| Unreasonable Medical Testing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Consumers and Health Insurance Companies Beware | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The medical establishment is not as interested in your health or well being as they should be. Doctors demand to be in control of all aspects of a patient's treatment and often have their own self-protective interests in mind. One example of this is the ordering of medical testing. Simple tests, which require only a small amount of blood be drawn, are defined as medical procdures, thus making it a crime for laboratories to perform them without a doctor's orders. This compromises patient care. Patients have to go to a doctor's office, get charged for a visit, get the order for the medical tests (that they already knew they needed), go to the lab, then come back to the doctor's office, and get charged for another visit just to see the results. Obviously this affects patient care by causing less patients to seek treatment and raising costs. Doctors order only one part of test (H&H) when the medical test equipment (blood counters) calculate many other useful results (a complete CBC) as part of the procedure to get the results the doctor ordered. The lab people are forced to NOT REPORT results of the unrequested parts of the CBC, even though a full test must be performed to get the results the doctor wants. This can affect patient care when the doctor orders an H&H, and the blood counter reports a critical low platlet value (indicating the patient may bleed to death) or a high white blood cell count indictating an infection. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Citizens can Insurance companies can Refuse reimbursement of orders of partial CBCs, thus requiring doctors to order a full CBC every time, also relieving the insurance company from responsibility of this absurd practice. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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