Saturday, May 8, 2010

Open Question: Are you reasonable for medical bill if you passed out and falls at the doctors office?

A friend of mind had been going to workers comp client urgent care for job injury which included headaches, dizziness, shoulder and neck pain. She also was seeing a psychologist for Major Depression which workers comp is paying for. She had been telling the work comp doctor that she had been having panic attacks. When she signed in and they didn't ask her what she was being seen for. That same clinic had previously given her medication for dizziness. She kept complaining of the dizziness getting worst, pain and her shoulder and neck also. She couldn't take it any longer so she called and asked is they take walk in patients. They said yes. When she got there she waited to be seen. Just before she was called to the back to see the doctor, she started feeling like headed. Seconds past and they called her back. When she stood to walk over to the assistant, she pasted out and fell to the floor, hitting her head. She didn't pass out, but they could not get her to respond to light, or her name. They called for an ambulance SAT. She went to the ER and had CT, MRI and they found nothing. It took them a long time to get her to come around. She would only mumble and wasn't making any since. All her test came back negative. She spent the night in the hospital and was discharged with Syncope as her diagnosis. The hospital gave her a doctors name who does EEG's to see if she had a seizure. My question is will she be responsible for the medical bills? Or will the workers comp clinic have to pay?

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