During the 2014 holidays I was admiitted to the ER. I gave the admitting personnel the business cards for all of my current physicians.
The attending hospitlist diagnosed me with xxx. A couple of weeks after I showed the test results to my specialiast. He agreed the diagnosis was incorrrect and indepently agreed the diagnosis should be yyy. A condition I had had for years.
FF to 2018 and was treated for a mild illniss and PCP says I need a full body scan because of xxx. I never had xxx!
Doesn’t the EMR also show the specialist’s correction of the diagnosis (yyy instead of xxx)?
Where is the specialists note? Has your primary read the note? He may not have corrected the list of diagnoses, but the note should confirm that you don’t have xxx. Then your primary can correct the diagnoses list and cancel the test as appropriate.
This is one of the issues supposedly to be fixed by the Electronic Health Record, but systems at times do not link up.
Been there and done it. It is possible.
BTDT as well. You need to go back to the original attending hospitalist who diagnosed you with XXX and get him/her to remove it. It cannot be removed by someone who makes a correct diagnosis.
I have had a similar thing happened and I was told it can’t be removed from an EMR, but an addendum with the correct information can be added. It did take time but it was corrected.
With all of my complex medical history, DH and I have had to fight these battles for years. Due to my condition, our insurance company has a medical case manager service who has been very helpful in sorting out annoying things like OP describes.
OP, if you contact your insurer and ask for a medical records clarification because of a requested test ordered unnecessarily, they should be able to help get it cleared. Think about it this way - this time you are still “with it” enough and this was only a mild illness that caused you to go to the PCP. If it were something more serious, the next time you go in, these tests might have been done without you really knowing what’s going on, and then they’d find some way to deny the claim and charge you for it. And we all know these tests ain’t exactly cheap.
Be sure to remain clear that you aren’t trying to blame your PCP for ordering a test / procedure based on the limited information he may have had - he/she is probably just following proper guidelines. You all just want the information to be clarified so you can prevent potential errors down the road.