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Just wanting to get a general response from the brains trust of practitioners out there if we as podiatrists have any entitlements to refer our patients for pathology services under Medicare, ie. without the patient being charged.
I had an interesting moment today when I sent a swab from an ulcer on the 4th met head, with the patient to be dropped off to his GP. I rang and advised a letter would follow today explaining my request, detailing history of previous amputation/infection, poor IDDM control and other risk factors.
Apparently the nursing staff/GP took offense that I took a swab and didn't write the request myself and that they now need to see the patient to validate this swabs need (even though dressing occurs by nursing staff every 2 days).
So basically where do our request rights stand for podiatry, if any?
Many thanks,
Al
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