My mom had her second appointment today to do a regular annual blood check. It was meant to be finished before the end of the year since she had met her deductible. I was the one that called and explain the situation (since my mom speaks broken English) so they give me a date in December. We go there only to find out that we need to go to another location to do the blood test and come back again there in January. Why not tell me to do the blood test before I come to your office from the start?
Second appointment today at 3:30.. Lindsay, walks in the room at 4:33 for a few minutes (63 minutes late) and read the results and then goes out to print something for my mom to read home. We never saw Lindsay again, not even goodbye. Someone else drops off the print out and we go to the front to pay our deductible. $125!!!! That's 35% of the total!!!! 2 minutes of Lindsay for total of $350. That's about 3 cents for a second of Lindsay's time, and she's not even the doctor!!! Of course they pulled that "I'd like to see you again in three months for another check-up" card.
This office is the epidemic of what's wrong with our heath system and abuse these clinics do and skyrocket the cost of healthcare. This is sad.