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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Centers => Topic started by: kidneysblowingchunks on July 27, 2010, 08:46:33 AM

Title: RAI leaves you SOL
Post by: kidneysblowingchunks on July 27, 2010, 08:46:33 AM

 :rant;(setting on HIGH)
The center that I go to was bought by Renal Advantage Incorporated.

The weekly practice of checking veinous and arterial pressures was discontinued.

Notices were given out last Wednesday that they would no longer provide Lidocaine.

 I only go on Mondays and Fridays, so I missed the letter. I found out on Friday as I sat down. The tech that day always joked that there was no lidocaine before. I didn't believe her until she brought me a copy.

There is a nerve that runs through my fistula region and when they put the needles in, they heard me on the other side of the center.

I had to pay the cost for the RX I got for Ethyl Chloride. It's not covered by my insurance.

(end RANT)

Title: Re: RAI leaves you SOL
Post by: Jean on July 28, 2010, 12:08:27 AM

Yikes!!!!! Is there another center you can go to?

Title: Re: RAI leaves you SOL
Post by: Rerun on July 28, 2010, 02:49:18 PM

Your only recourse is to go to another center and tell them why you are leaving.  What if they decided to reuse needles?  Are you just supposed to accept thatcrap?  NO!  It is time to put your foot down now. 


 :Kit n Stik;

Title: Re: RAI leaves you SOL
Post by: Stacy Without An E on July 30, 2010, 01:10:09 PM

And the Wal-Marting of Dialysis clinics continues unabated...