A couple of comments on this:
1. The lab does not need your wife's consent. She isn't the one ordering the test. They only need the doctor's order and it sounds like they got that.
2. It sounds like there was a communication failure here between your wife and the doctor's office and/or within the doctor's office. She may have told the doctor that she didn't want the tests but his staff probably had no way to know that so when the lab called to verify what was ordered, they just read off the orders, not knowing that not all of the tests were actually being done.
What should you do? I would take it up with the doctor and/or the office manager. Explain that you specifically said you didn't want those tests due to the cost but they got done anyway. Hopefully they can intervene with the lab and get them to eat that charge. Good luck. Let us know how it turns out.
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Lab did test that we didn’t request
DW recently got some bloodwork done..there were two tests that were optional that we didn’t give them the Drs orders for due to cost. There was a test the lab had a question on what exactly needed to be ordered and they called the Drs and I guess the nurse told them the two optional tests. Now we’re being billed $1900 for these lab tests. Not really sure how they can just call the drs and do the tests without my wife’s consent? She’s especially upset because the Drs warned her to call the insurance company to get the estimated cost first before doing them (which we did) and we weren’t going to.
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