re: OT Lawyers - my cardiologist is charging me $100 to obtain copies of my PET scan results

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Can't wait as AI takes people like you out....and you'll wonder why.

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You clearly don’t get it, but if you had a better understanding of how medicine works and the current limitations of LLMs/AI, physicians are pretty safe as it currently stands. AI takes everything at face value, which is a problem when patients are unreliable narrators. Plus, good luck suing the programmers when AI misses your cancer.

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Most physicians dont do shite except push meds for pharma.

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Sorry you couldn’t fix your chronic heath problems with lifestyle changes. Your AI doctor is now suggesting you take meds for your uncontrolled hypertension and cholesterol. That damn programmer must be getting kickbacks from pharma!

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Is that legal? I had some other heart tests done also that would be "included" in the results they would give me.,

Can they really charge $100 for this? Seems shady AF.



FYI... this is Modern Heart and Vascular here in Houston.

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If I have said it once I have said it a thousand times - I would much rather have an encounter with a fleet of lawyers than a single health care provider. Lawyers do not make any pretense about being greedy and self serving....doctors pretend as if they have some concern over your health when in fact there only concern is if the bill is paid in full. I get it, its a business, but stop pretending and be honest. Of course that would prevent them ordering all manner of useless tests and procedures and writing all manner of prescriptions for shite that is not needed nor indicated.

The entire medical community is incompetent. There is no other business I am aware of that routinely provides services and does not expect to be paid when the service is rendered. They pretend this is because patients would be hard pressed to pay and there is an element of truth in that considering the outrageous prices they charge for routine shite like writing a blood pressure script that has not changed in 20 years but having to have an office visit and a $300 bill to send an email to a pharmacy. The practice also allows for them to charge outlandish amounts of money for doing frick all and almost no one pays attention to what their insurance actually paid they only pay attention to what they paid out of pocket. They routinely charge more than the contracted amount, almost everyone I go to tries to charge me more co-pay than I am required to pay and when I mention it they suddenly remember I am correct. Just the simple act of answering a fricking telephone is more a complicated task than they can manage, almost every one of them uses voice mail exclusively and most say it your call will be returned in 24 hours. If WalMart did business that way no body would ever pay the damn grocery bill and no one would ever set foot in one after waiting 24 hours for them to return a phone call...and WalMart is about as shitty a customer service model as you can find.

Health care providers care NOTHING about their patients time. They make appointments when it is convenient for the doctor, they only do some things on some days and you better damn well have a schedule that works for them or you are shite out of luck. They now make appointments with specialists for their patients they are referring without ANY input from the patient as to when they will be available for the appointment. Appointment time means frick all to anyone in the business...it is a mere suggestion, 9 AM can mean 930 or noon, what the frick do they care you do not have a life.

I went through about 9 different providers and specialists to get my dad some medical supplies that he would die without in just a few days. I could buy them off Amazon and have them delivered the next day....but I had to have a prescription for feeding tube supplies. The hospital where the procedure was done had no record of having done it other than the bill was paid. They had no idea who the surgeon was. The referring specialist could not write the prescription because apparently they forgot how or never knew. I finally went to their office after waiting 2 days for them to return calls and while I was waiting the 2 receptionists were talking about their weekend plans while the phone rang off the hook, non stop. I called it standing at the window 4 times and watched as they ignored the phone as if they could not hear it. When I finally saw the doctor he said he could not write the prescription....I told him I would pay him $5,000 in cash right then to do so and suddenly the bastard found a way to write it...but fricked it up and wrote it for the wrong thing LOL....luckily I had the sense to read it before I handed him the cash. As it turned out he could not write the RX for the right thing....did not know what was needed...when I showed him on Amazon he was dumfounded that they were readily available. He called another specialist in the same practice and they said they had some they could give me...I rushed over and they were wrong also. They then said my dad would have to have an appointment for them to write a RX. I offered them the same $5000 cash and they said they could do a telephone appointment that evening. I told them I would bring the cash first thing the next morning or immediately after the appointment....it was a go...until they called and spent nearly an hour on the phone explaining how they had to make an appointment to do a telephone appointment that would take about 5 minutes....the entire industry is incompetent but they know how to fleece insurance companies and that is the entire point.

Did you have your scan done in a hospital or standalone facility?
Most places, even outpatient labs like Quest have a patient portal you can sign into and look at your results.
Your cardiologist ordered the PET scan?
He’s charging you $100 to print the results, or just tell you what the results are?