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Originally Posted by Villages PL
Angie, that's great, I'm glad to hear it! Would it therefore be safe to assume you have normal blood pressure(without medication)? No shortness of breath while working out? No fatigue while doing household chores or exercising? Wouldn't these be the type of questions they would ask before ordering a stress test?
Are they ordering tests routinely in every instance so as to make more money off of Medicare? Could this be Medicare fraud? We had a thread on Medicare fraud and I think it was agreed by many that it often involves ordering too many unnecessary tests.
Perhaps you should report it as a possible fraud.
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She had
chest pains! If they didn't order tests it would be fraud all right--better known as quackery.
Lots of people with good blood pressure, no shortness of breath while working out, no fatigue, good weight, etc., suffer heart attacks. I personally know two such people who died of heart attacks, one while jogging. And countless others I've read about down through the years.