I get these all the time and throw the more ridiculous ones away. For diabetic supplies I complete only the pertinent parts of the form. When they ask what the patient's last HgBA1C was I tell them it is none of their business. Then at the patient's next office visit I strongly urge them to dump these suppliers and buy locally. I recently had a popular supplier (who uses an overweight, grizzly, moustached spokesman) send me a form saying one of their clients was requesting a heating pad and an erectile dysfunction device. I called the patient and asked if he had indeed requested these and he confirmed that he did not. He vehemently said he does not need the ED device and, when the Statue of ....... rep said he could get a heating pad free he said (naturally) ok. When I filled him in on the shady tactics he declined both and I tore up the papers.
I also refuse to reveal to insurance companies any specific information about a patient's labs, compliance issues, etc. My feeling is that is between the patient and their insurance. If the patient wants to divulge this then let them. But, I also stress to patients that they do not HAVE to (at least not yet). Nor do they have to talk to the insurance companies' "nurses" when they call and try to give them medical advice.

Leslie

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "