My niece always keeps copies of everthing she found that her doctor recently went back two years and changed her diagnosis on a couple of conditions. Its't that against the law. We also found out the doctors can take out anything they want.
2006-07-21 15:37:55 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
Find a lawyer and fast because that sounds very fishy!
2006-07-21 15:42:34 · answer #1 · answered by annarenee83 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is more common than you think because people come into the office and complain about one ailment that may be related to another. I'd say the doctor was just keep with the times.
Trust me....10 years I complained of mainly the same symptoms, but sometimes I'd have new ones. The doctor didn't know what to do with me, so I got a second opinion from a new doctor and he sent me directly to a liver doctor (who is in the pic with me) come to find out, it wasn' t lupus, arthritis or this or that, it was HCV that was causing all my ailments.
The point is, the doctor is probably just doing his job....sometimes its hard to diagnose the causative disease by diagnosing a bunch of other ones.
2006-07-21 15:43:50 · answer #2 · answered by giggling.willow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't be so quick to judge. Sometimes after the doc gets the results of diagnostic testing results, he would document that. I would also question what records that she is talking about etc. If you get some non-professional reading medical records, that can be dangerous. Of course doctors can write what they need to in medical records since the records belong to them. Always be careful what you tell a doctor......even in jest! If she is worried about it then she should discuss it with the doctor.....afterall, he is the professional.
2006-07-21 15:44:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if the doctor if using the altered form to increase payments from an insurance carrier, or from Medicaid / Medicare, then it is fraud, and you should do what you can to stop it.
the worst kind of theft is the kind committed by people who already have plenty of money. wouldn't you agree?
2006-07-21 15:43:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time to phone a lawyer.
2006-07-21 15:41:28 · answer #5 · answered by nimbleminx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't know that...but i'd sure as hell legally question it.
2006-07-21 15:39:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋