My FP and home testing

[Karlynn]

Just got back from an appt with my FP (for issues discussed on another thread ) and we had a nice conversation about home testing and self dosing.

He said that he had a lot of people he'd like to see home test, but that his malpractice insurance provider is not very encouraging of it. He agreed totally that the level of compliance would be much higher if people home tested, and that you would think that would decrease malpractice liability, but that wasn't the way the companies were viewing it.

I told him the Medicare now pays for it, so that should be a clue that it becoming more acceptable and viewed as reliable.

I jokingly said to him "You've been my FP for 16 years. Have I ever come into your office pouring blood all over the place?" Then he laughed and said - "Well yes, 3 weeks ago! But that has to do with you getting to be an old lady - not Coumadin."

He said that most of his older patients were just as happy to have someone else take responsibility for it, but that the use of Coumadin is doing nothing but increase - so the insurance companies are going to have to wise up.

 

[Ross]

Find out who his insurer is and we'll form a posse to deal with them.

 

[catwoman]

Karlynn:

Then how do doctors skate past their malpractice insurance providers if they (heaven forbid!) allow diabetics to check their glucose levels every day and adjust the amount of insulin?

 

[olefin]

He said that he had a lot of people he'd like to see home test, but that his malpractice insurance provider is not very encouraging of it.

I jokingly said to him "You've been my FP for 16 years. Have I ever come into your office pouring blood all over the place?" Then he laughed and said - "Well yes, 3 weeks ago! But that has to do with you getting to be an old lady - not Coumadin."

He said that most of his older patients were just as happy to have someone else take responsibility for it,

And he is suggesting YOU are old?

Sure glad he's not my doctor, he would think I'm old enough to be senile.

Not sure I buy his story about malpractice insurance.
My Cardiologist never question me when I asked about home testing. He didn't seem to know much about it. He did comment he had a INR meter in his office. But they have never used it on me.

 

[Karlynn]

He is my family practitioner, not my cardio - so maybe the standards for insurance are different. He didn't say that he couldn't get insurance - just that his provider wasn't thrilled with the idea.

And I've been home testing for quite a while now - so his statements don't impact me and he doesn't handle my coumadin Rx.

 

[Ross]

He is my family practitioner, not my cardio - so maybe the standards for insurance are different. He didn't say that he couldn't get insurance - just that his provider wasn't thrilled with the idea.

And I've been home testing for quite a while now - so his statements don't impact me and he doesn't handle my coumadin Rx.

But I want to Lynch someone. I've been deprived way too long.

 

[COLLEEN S]

Karlynn,
I want so badly to be able to home test. I am 46. I am on my 2nd OHS. I finally have an appt with a new cardio in May. Any suggestions???
Also, I once went to a cardio who had a advocacy website posted in big letters on his office door. I wont point to the exact website's name, but it said something like 'doctors against high malpractice premiums'. I walked out and never went back.
How old is old anyway? How dare he call you an old lady.

 

[Tbone]

But I want to Lynch someone. I've been deprived way too long.

I got a nice new clean rope. Time to break it in?