Quote:
Originally Posted by mepstein
You don't have to agree to the tests but at least ask why they are being ordered. It's not like the dr or nurse gets a cut.
|
The exception to the above is private clinics.
Locally, the private ortho group built a big new clinic inclusive of a surgery center in their home town about an hour away. Of course, they started steering patients to that clinic for MRIs telling patients that the MRI in a truck that came to town (hospital) 3 days/week produced inferior images. The hospital invested several million $ to build an in-house, state-of-the-science MRI suite. So guess what is running in the clinic parking lot 3 days per week now. Yup. The same MRI truck.