Don't you love it when

Did they accept that, Stomps? Are you still having the CT Scan at your scheduled hospital? What a pain - as if you don't have enough to deal with!

Go get 'em!

Footstomper said:

They said they would talk the my Dr

It annoys me when their beancounters get involved

went through the same crap when my surgery at MSKCC in NYC was "approved" and then "unapproved" it because they said I could get the "same surgery" in NJ.  I respectfully disagreed bc the doc in NJ was going to do a radical nephrectomy, and my doc was going to do a partial.  My doc was also going to do an open surgery, whereas most of the ones in NJ were specializes in robotic/laparascopic.  I could not do laparascopic bc of prior abdominal surgeries.  It took an epic battle down to the wire to get the surgery done at MSKCC.  Sometimes you have to keep fighting back against the pinheads.

My husband is on Medicare.  A couple years ago, prior to a scan, the receptionist asked us to sign a consent.  The consent was for a study being undertaken by Medicare insurance.  They wanted access to my husbands complete medical records, and to have dialog with his physicians re whether or not the scans were warranted, and if the results changed his treatment plan.  They were looking at if scans were needed and at what frequency.  We refused to sign the consent.  Honestly, we figured they probably already had this information at their disposal.  Surprisingly, the receptionist said "everybody signs the consent".   We said, if we don't sign, will you still do the scans?  She didn't know.  Finally, a supervisor questioned us as to what "is our problem?"   We still didn't sign, and they did do my husbands scans.  We also did not return to this local facility because they did not measure the size of the mets on the scan.  Now, we always have our scans done at the same major medical center with the RCC specialist.