<p>We went to my son’s primary care doctor to get his innoculation form filled out. We were told after sitting in the office for hours that he would have to go thru a “well-child exam” since he was last there almost 2 yrs ago for a college physical. The exam was to include a EKG and a blood test and would take two days. I told them he had been thru DODMERB and this was not necessary. Since I objected, the doctor refused to fill out the forms and gave us my son’s medical history records and a treatment release form.</p>
<p>It was an acrimonious exchange and I think the doctor was trying to bilk our insurance.</p>
<p>Has anyone had a similar experience or an idea what to do now.</p>
<p>Yikes! No our doctor was only too happy to fill out the forms and include innoculation records from many different sources without doing a physical (son was having additional innoculations though). If we only want forms filled out, our docs policy is to drop the form off and pick it up after 48hrs. Since they can’t charge for filling out the form they won’t do it on an appointment basis.</p>
<p>Can’t remember specifically, but my guess is 2 years ago. We had one of the urgent care docs do son’s physical last year for SLS because we couldn’t get an appointment with his PCP in time. If you have urgent care centres near you (open 7 days a week, no appointments only walk-ins), they would likely fill out your forms from the records you have. They may charge charge a fee, but it would be worth trying.</p>
<p>My pediatrician’s policy is the same. They will not just fill out the forms and sign their names to a document saying they have completed an exam if it has been 2+ years. It is possible that there are some risk management criteria that their malpractice insurance carrier requires in these cases. </p>
<p>mombo, I agree with you that the EKG seems to be excessive.</p>
<p>This was just an innoculation record form–no mention of an exam. A few weeks ago over the phone, they said they were willing to sign the forms and leave them in a mailbox. Since my son was at college, I waited until he came home because he would have to pick up the forms in person or sign a release form. In the space of a few weeks, they changed their policy. They were going to do the EKG yesterday, but the equipment was not in order. They wanted him back today. This is outrageous. We spent 4 hours there yesterday and they were very nasty and inflexible.</p>
<p>Just spoke with the head nurse at West Point. Her reaction was, “What?!” She told me to fax the records to her and they will make sure they have everything they need. She was very helpful.</p>
<p>LOL - son has been blessed with good health so we seldom see a doc - usually only for annual sports/high adventure physicals. We never bothered to change him over to our PCP. Having not been for 2 years, he was mortified when he had to go into the pediatricians office and wait around with all of the babies for his latest innoculations… he vowed he would not go back.</p>
<p>Heh, I finally got my shots scheduled for monday. No doctor in the county “had” the shots, and furthermore refused to order them. The one who was gonna order them tried to charge me 200 dollars a shot. I finally found a decent doctor, but it was like pulling teeth. Did I mention I was going to my first dentists visit ever on Tuesday?</p>
<p>Sometimes the local health department can be helpful with innoculations.
Good luck with the dentist! With any luck wisdom teeth extractions will not be in your future.</p>