Wednesday, August 15, 2012
What Would You Do?
A specialist I see charges $50 if a drugstore calls for a refill authorization and $10 if I e-mail her about anything. She insists on keeping patients' credit card numbers on file, and she charges your card immediately if a drugstore contacts her. Which happened on Monday due to drugstore error, and I got a receipt (not a bill) from her yesterday for $50.
She's in a medical specialty in which there are very few good doctors in our HMO/Preferred Provider Plan, and my required new-patient appointment with her cost a lot of money. If I switch to another doctor, I may have to pay a similar exorbitant fee.
I could limp along in this pretty much trust-free doctor/patient relationship, or I could contact another doctor, see if I like him/her (and the fees), try another, and perhaps another.
This kept me awake last night.
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2 comments:
The $50.00 for the pharmacy refill is unprecedented; I’ve never experienced anything like it. The email thing sounds less expensive than a legal consult, but still unusual for an M.D. This sounds like a New Age, young Dr. trying to offset the cost of his/her tony office space.
Office space is pretty nice, but also a kid in private school, secretary/office, and the doctor is a single mom.
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