New Change In Hospital Organization? - Page 2

bikerbabe · ‎03-09-2010

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I would check with other orthopedic groups in your area.

ECBG · ‎01-08-2011

@chrystaltree wrote:
It's not a business model. It's about where you chose to go. Why didn't you go to a hospital emergency room? Your injuries certainly warranted an emergency room. In the ER, all the specialists would have assessed you and treated you . They would have done all the necessary X-rays. You went to an urgent care facility which usually isn't equipped for injuries like yours, they did an assessment and the orthopedic doc took care of the foot and determined that you needed to see other orthopeds for the other injuries. So, yes. Multiple appointments with separate copays..

@chrystaltree

The urgent care is 5 minutes away. The hospital is a 4+ hr to be seen. I'm always so healthy, I had no clue!

Sage04 · ‎07-10-2011

@ECBG wrote:
@AZfem wrote:
Can you get a referral from your primary care dr. to an ortho on your plan? Don't use the urgent care drs. Find your own. Good luck with healing & feel better.
@AZfem

No, not really. My Dr has only been here since the pandemic. The really good one retired. This one dosen't give out any info. I have to ask a direct question.

There is another one I like 1 mile further. Same story.

@ECBG if you can find an Ortho in your plan, and you need a referral, your Primary Care Doctor will have to give you the referral. I don't think he has a choice.

Love my grandkids · ‎11-24-2013

@NicksmomESQ Good for you! It's so important for us, and especially us older folks (I'm 75) to be pro-active when it comes to health care.

I posted last December that I finally fired my ophthalmologist who was a good doc but had a rotten personality and I grew to actively dislike him and got sick of seeing him. I made an appointment with my BIL's doctor and love him and he's just been great.

I also switched from my gastro doc to another in the group who did my first co lonoscopy in 2017 and gave me my cancer diagnosis and whom I've seen a couple of times since. I have no regrets. I tried to talk to the first one about something serious and she simply ignored me and pooh-poohed my concerns. I'm happy with my new doc.

Mindy D · ‎05-23-2010

@ECBG wrote:
I am wondering if any of you have run across this business model in health care?

Story:
Two weeks ago, DH was in the hospital, I fell down the dark bedroom stairs a 4am (Shadow had to potty) forgetting to turn the light on.
Both ankles were swollen (one had a bone chip), my back was very sore, and I heard several (cracks) out of my neck.
My DIL took me to urgent care who took foot x rays and gave me a light weight boot; making me an appt with the ortho place upstairs for a hard boot.

The ortho place with a walk in clinic, (appointments come from new appointments and rechecks) told me EACH area that I want looked at will be a separate appointment!

"We can only look at one body part at a time.".

That means I will have 4 copays for one situation in addition to copays for rechecks for a possible total of 8!

Our health care system was bought by another group several years ago. I have spoken to nurses that are very unhappy.
The company also bought other hospitals around us as well.

@ECBG The hospitals near me would not let you leave the ER without imaging if you were to tell them you heard several cracks in your neck and if your back was very sore. They would have done imaging before deciding if you could leave.

About 50 years ago, a friend of my husband's was brought to the ER by paramedics after he was in a car accident. He was treated and imaged in the ER. I don't know what type of imaging he had. It might have just been X-rays. After being treated, he was told he could leave and he was picked up by his parents and taken home. Early the next morning, the phone rang and it was the hospital telling him he had to comeback in because they noticed he had a broken neck! Apparently, whoever was supposed to read the X-rays or whatever they used, did not notice the break.

He spent the next months wearing some large halo device to hold his head in place and protect his neck and head. Very lucky he had no paralysis.

AZfem · ‎04-13-2016

@ECBG Sounds like you live in a small town or rural area. You may have to look further afield like the closest bigger city. Go online & research orthos in a 20-50 mile radius, call your insurance & see who's on your plan. Ask people you know or medical professionals (nurses know a lot about who's good).

Trinity11 · ‎11-16-2014

@ECBG wrote:
I am wondering if any of you have run across this business model in health care?

Story:
Two weeks ago, DH was in the hospital, I fell down the dark bedroom stairs a 4am (Shadow had to potty) forgetting to turn the light on.
Both ankles were swollen (one had a bone chip), my back was very sore, and I heard several (cracks) out of my neck.
My DIL took me to urgent care who took foot x rays and gave me a light weight boot; making me an appt with the ortho place upstairs for a hard boot.

The ortho place with a walk in clinic, (appointments come from new appointments and rechecks) told me EACH area that I want looked at will be a separate appointment!

"We can only look at one body part at a time.".

That means I will have 4 copays for one situation in addition to copays for rechecks for a possible total of 8!

Our health care system was bought by another group several years ago. I have spoken to nurses that are very unhappy.
The company also bought other hospitals around us as well.

I remember @ECBG you said you had arthritis? Don't you have an orthopedist for that health issue?

Call your primary if not. You need to see a board certified orthopedist as follow up. The treatment you received about separate co-pays sounds like a real scam.🥺

DrakesMomma · ‎06-02-2010

Neck and ankles - I would understand 2 different appointments as those are different specialties.

AZfem · ‎04-13-2016

@Love my grandkids I wonder if we have the same ophthalmologist! I can't stand mine either. He gets all these "best of the city" awards & is a good surgeon but horrible bedside manner. People hate him in his reviews. One time he was looking at my eyes thru viewer & running out of the room at the same time never to return! They put 4 people in rooms for same appt. time.