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Originally Posted by Dejibo
please, if you are paying CASH for services, even an MRI ASK for a discount. Many many many places will discount the service (even if you are not in financial need) for a cash payment. My last MRI was $800 my insurer paid $114 for it. So, if they are getting pennies on the dollar from insurance companies, then a cash payment of 75% would be a blessing for them. Speak to your town hall, or local churches about financial help to pay for these medical tests. Many have neighbor helping neighbor funds to help anyone who needs it.
Have you considered a new MD? it sounds like you are not really happy with the new sheriff in town.
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I told my dad about this neuro I saw yesterday. He was not impressed. He thinks, and I agree, that I should stick with a private neuro, rather than someone from the MS Clinic.
I'm supposed to go visit my regular neuro in a couple of weeks, so I'm going to ask if I'm right about thinking that he's retiring, and if he is, I'll be asking him which one of the other neuros in the office has the most experience with treating MS and if he would refer me to them.
His office is in a decent location (within 2 minutes of two yarn stores...love that!) and is a heck of a lot closer to my house than the MS Clinic.
I just dont think I need an MRI. I havent had anything interesting happen with the MS, and I just dont think I need to have an MRI just because the doctor is curious about what's going on in the inside of my head (and or spine)
I'm pretty sure that neuro is such a new neuro that she's not yet developed the concept of "bedside manner". She was a <bad word that starts with the letter "B">. I just wasnt all that impressed with her, and not totally because she wouldnt give me a Rx for LDN. It was just the attitude she had when she came into the room before the subject of LDN came up. I didnt mention that until she was about to leave the room. She just didnt give me that great of an impression.
They were insisting on me getting an MRI, so at the time, I told them to go ahead and see if the MSAA would do a grant for the MRI and see if they'd be able to do it at the new MRI place, but I'm thinking that when they call me with the information about the MRI appointment, I'll probably just tell them to use the possible grant money for the MRI for someone else who really really needs an MRI more than I do. Tell them to go scan someone who hasnt been diagnosed yet and cant afford an MRI. (she made a big deal of telling me that I would have to contact them to cancel the MRI if the grant came thru so that they could use the grant money for someone else, if I decided that I couldnt go thru with the MRI.)
I agree with my regular neuro. He told me once that MRI's are really only needed when it's obvious that something is going on. He said he would only ever make me get one if I had some new and scary symptom that indicated new inflammation. I think I'll go call him for the appointment he told me to make with him after seeing the neuro at the MS Clinic.