Joseph, I think it's an appropriate question. There are people who present to Physicians offices to see if they are really doing what they say they do in an initial exam. This has happened to me. At the end of the visit, the guy identified himself as an investigator, but wouldn't tell me for whom. I told him I could charge his insurance company for a fraudulent patient visit and that he owed me cash for the visit. He paid, and I never heard anything from it again.


Tom Young, DO
Internal Medicine Consultants, PC
Creston, Iowa