dr. billing

Hi all, I have a st. jude pacemaker and merlin transmitter and whenever my dr. downloads my info i get a outpatient copay amount and another outpatient bill from the dr.for reading the report, my dr. office is connected to a hospital. this cost me over 200 dollars everytime. Are there cardiologist that have there own pacemaker lab in there office so i don't get a hospitial outpatient bill everytime.

thanks,
Dave

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mine does

by billylittle - 2013-06-12 01:06:45

I see a medtronic tech usually. My Dr's office has a guy that works for the office and not Medtronic. The corperate techs could never get my setting correct, but the office tech took the time to make me walk down the hall several times as he adjusted me to get the rate response correct...

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by Tracey_E - 2013-06-12 02:06:10

I have St Judes but not a merlin. I see the St Judes rep in the office so the dr doesn't have a lab, the lab comes to him. They bring their equipment in once a month. My cardio's NP looks over the report, files it if all is good or has him call me if I had a question or anything is new. St Judes bills the dr, the dr charges me an office visit for the whole thing which is a $20 copay.

Can you discuss it with the dr, or maybe switch to an independent dr who isn't part of a hospital? Or as long as your battery is good and you aren't having problems, ask to check it less often. I'm diligent about every 3 months when the battery is low or I've had issues, but stretch it out to 5 or 6 months other times.

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