Couldn’t you have called Labcorp and got the test from a lab? My doctor doesn’t do any lab testing. It goes to the lab in my county that’s connected to the hospital or to lab corp.
My father has been monitoring his calcium levels and uses Labcorp directly. It is great that you can cut out the middleman. They draw blood right there and you can view your results very quickly online.
This process is a hidden gem in our bloated system.
Go directly to the lab.
Now obviously this is just for health maintenance and dietary checkups.
Not to many people are aware that you can go right to the lab directly.
What? Who doesn't go "directly" to Labcorp? They have obviously cut costs to the bone, but that makes me nervous. They have basically one person per location who does everything, and I worry that they are too stressed/tired/burned out/disgruntled to do their job right.
I heard something years ago about a medical lab that was just throwing out all their samples and using a simple statistical model to return results. That's what you can get if you are just rewarding efficiency.
