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Nuclear Stress Test - Not accurate
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@briarrose "A complete waste of time for the patient and all the staff involved."
Not to mention money. Somebody's paying for these errors.
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@scottrl Exactly!
Medicare and our secondary insurance is paying the big bucks for this test - which WILL be big bucks for a test like this. And then the cardiology group will get paid big bucks for a "non-test" , we will get billed for the copayment and Medicare and secondary will swallow the rest.
Something is wrong with this picture but lots of folks are telling me it happens all the time.
But with a test like this?
I was diagnosed with heart disease late 40s, stent implanted 50s...had multiple stress tests over the past 30 years, now 71 and never came across "artifacts" in a nuclear or treadmill stress testing. Well, it's just not right but at my/our age we are finding "lots" of things are does not right...and have to accept. Like it or not.