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@rosemarya

@caretakermom,
I live in Kentucky, and transplanted at Mayo Rochester. I am covered by a Commercial Medicare Advantage plan and I have always requested my PCP to re-write my lab prescriptions to my local hospital lab. Since my routine lab order is updated annually during my annual checkup, I just drop it by his office and he calls me when it is ready for pick-up. It is also good for one year and remains on file at the lab.

Are you having a problem getting your PCP to authorize the lab order?

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No, we've been using the lab orders from the ordering provider which is in Az and we live in Ca. May have to have a local provider(I'm thinking any provider can rewrite the lab as long as they're local, husband sees endocronologist regularly) to rewrite lab if our insurance does not cover the Quest lab work we are doing now. The insurance rep they can also get an exception but she is trying to find out if our plan covers blood work done at Quest in Calif, which is different of the ordering provider at Az. Quest is in-network state wide in Calif under our plan, but our insurance rep is looking into whether it's also in-network in Az, because the claim is probably billing from the Az location where the ordering physician is. Anyways, I'm waiting to hear back from our insurance about this matter and was wondering and anyone else ran into same issue!

@roseymarya, do you have to let your Mayo team at Rochester know that your PCP will cc your lab results to them? I was told by the Az Mayo nurse that the provider who rewrites the lab order becomes responsible for reviewing the labs. So when Mayo receives the lab results they will show it's ordered by your local provider in which case they may not review them??? How does this work? Does the PCP cc the results and indicate that order was originally from your Mayo provider???