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Clinic Salt
Nov. 19th, 2022 12:27 amA.) Kaiser Permanente is forthright about the things it will and won't pay for, and I'm going to assume they're pretty consistent.
B.) This clinic gets what seems to be basically all the referrals from what seems like at least 3 health systems for their specialty. So they will already be intimately familiar with what Kaiser will and won't do, if they are in any way competent. (Having managed to fuck up name and gender fairly consistently for other things, I have Questions about their competence in the little details.)
C.) Along with the referral to a specialist and authorization of Procedure X, Kaiser sent a letter to both patient and clinic that Sub-Procedure Y was Not Covered.
D.) This Goddamn Clinic informed the patient, after they had arrived onsite for the procedure and just before they were about to proceed with Sub-Procedure Y, that Y was what they were doing. I'm unsure whether they would have informed the patient that it was Y instead of Z if the patient had not asked.
I'm not pleased with this place at all.
B.) This clinic gets what seems to be basically all the referrals from what seems like at least 3 health systems for their specialty. So they will already be intimately familiar with what Kaiser will and won't do, if they are in any way competent. (Having managed to fuck up name and gender fairly consistently for other things, I have Questions about their competence in the little details.)
C.) Along with the referral to a specialist and authorization of Procedure X, Kaiser sent a letter to both patient and clinic that Sub-Procedure Y was Not Covered.
D.) This Goddamn Clinic informed the patient, after they had arrived onsite for the procedure and just before they were about to proceed with Sub-Procedure Y, that Y was what they were doing. I'm unsure whether they would have informed the patient that it was Y instead of Z if the patient had not asked.
I'm not pleased with this place at all.
