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What is a medical insurance coding specialist?

Need a specialist for possible cancer....but no insurance?

  • my mother and father have no health insurance (just applied for medi-cal yesterday in fact) and have been receiving care at a teaching facility that offers free health care. My mom received an abnormal ultrasound result last week. Unfortunately, the doctor who was in charge of her is a resident and I cannot contact him for a copy of the ultrasound or details about this. He's ordered a CT and perhaps a biopsy if the CT is abnormal as well. However, I'm concerned on why he has not referred her to a specialist/oncologist when he first received the abnormal results. I myself has insurance (parents, only concerned about their children and never themselves) so I have no idea how this works. Is there any way I can get her to a specialist myself? She has the symptoms of cancer and I don't want to take any chances. Does the current doctor need to refer her or can we go by ourselves? My mom and dad do not have much money and I know that they cannot afford it (which is why they didn't first go to a specialist even why my mom started having abdominal pains) so I'm planning to pay for it myself (even as a college student who has no stable job as of right now). Is it terribly expensive?

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    the reason the doctor who is taking car of your mom didn't refer her to a specialist is that he has not yet diagnosed cancer. this is why he has ordered the CT to be followed by biopsy.so don't understand what "abnormal results" you mean. people can have abnormal results without having cancer. there needs to be a diagnosis. paying for anyone cancer treatment is very very expensive. you can't pay unless you have substantial assets. why not let the dr. do his job and see if they will continue treating her at the teaching hospital?

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Oncologists do not see self-referred patients and they do not see patients unless they have been diagnosed with cancer and often not until after surgery.

Denisedds

What Empress said is correct. I will add that you can't call and get any info on her results.

april

I was diagnosed with cancer in the midst of a move. My doc sent me to a surgeon for the lumpectomy, who then referred me to an oncologist for 1 or 2 meetings. Then I moved, had a prolonged infection from the surgery, and getting to a doc in my new location was nothing short of a hassle. He was "committed to other things" for months. Suddenly the prior onc. made the referral and I got in right away. You'll have to be patient and wait for the results until the next step, and your parents are adults, let them handle it.

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