Wish me luck

[Cris N]

I talked with QAS today about getting my very own testing machine, I downloaded the forms and prepared to meet with my PCP. I had all the arguments ready thinking I would have to plead my case. An easy opening came when I asked him if the results of my lab draw from earlier today were available. He said no, and then expressed frustration at getting test results. So I said, "that's one of the reasons I'm here today. Do you have any patients who do self-testing?" He said no and I told him I would like to and pulled out the paperwork. He looked at the overview and said, "Sure, sure," and then started to fill out the forms, checking a variety of boxes. He said, "you're intelligent, you can do this". You can always call me or the Coumadin clinic nurse if you have questions. I then said that I would need his cooperation on warfarin prescriptions... he said, "what do you need?"

After reading about some of the difficulties other members have had trying to convince their doctors I feel quite fortunate.

So, now I will patiently wait for the insurance company to put its blessing on the plan....

Cris

[jeffp]

Sounds like you have a very co-operative PCP! I hope your insurer is as co-operative. I had the most trouble with the supplier (not QAS, at least not directly), the insurance company was pretty good about doing their part.

[Karlynn]

Wish they all had that attitude.

Kind of makes me chuckle when doctors talk about patients being intelligent enough to handle home testing. I think it's more difficult to get people to take medication daily and on schedule - but no one is making them go to Pill Deliver Clinics to make them take there meds.

[Cris N]

How true. It amazes me that so many doctors cringe at the thought of patient self-testing for anticoagulation once a week, but think nothing of telling diabetic patients to test multiple times a day.

Cris