Q: Can I fight 1100$ charges for an MRI that was taken of my hip when I was expressing pain in my lower back?
I had expressed pain in my right lower back and down my entire right leg to my physician. He sent me to Orthopedics for a right hip MRI because I told him I had a torn labrum in my right hip from the military. (Had already gotten MRI 's of the area in the past) I wanted my lower back and source of my pain looked at but am being charged for a MRI of my hip that I never needed or asked for. (They found nothing except that my labrum is still torn-they don't heal I already knew that)
A: If that's what the doctors ordered generally no. You can ask your insurance company & the Pt ombudsman at the hospital to look at it.
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