Posted by oracle on July 28, 2002, at 19:16:42
In reply to Diagnostic discombobulation - need advice, posted by BarbaraCat on July 27, 2002, at 22:16:23
What rights do I have as a patient in insisting I receive additional 'expensive tests'. What are these tests? What's available as far as reliable sensitive diagnostic tools? Is the
SPECT available other than at Dr. Amen's? What other functional imaging tests are out there? Who would I call within this HMO health system to get an honest answer -
not some toady in the 'costs reduction' department?
SPECT scans for mental illness are experimental, so
a HMO would not pay for this.
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