@Kmakm, I just jump up and down until they give it to me to shut me up I think LOL.
I've never paid for a CT especially the initial staging one. Maybe they only do it if your node positive upfront, I don't know.
I do not trust under any circumstances the U/S and mammo on its own. With my latest referral, to check up on the mystery MRI find, I've made them include a rescan of where the lymph nodes were and chest nodes. I realised that in all my follow up it had only been the breasts they'd been scanning and not where most of it was......bit slow on the uptake huh?
The registrar (I think she is scared off me, she kind of avoids me at work now) said "well, that part shouldn't be a problem because we took a lot out" Sure....nope that won't cut it, so she added it on the paper work.
If you are keen on it for peace of mind and can get yourself referred by a consultant you shouldn't have to pay. GP referral you might. MRI's are trickier with getting it paid for and they can pick up a lot of we don't knows but I've paid for one because I wouldn't have stopped worrying without it.
Our hospital has recently changed their policy and if you are referred from outpatients clinic for follow up the hospital will pay. So that's a big relief.
I got my brain ones bulk billed because my GP knew to put that I was suffering headaches on the referral. Just have to have the right words on it. Ridiculous...yes.
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