The people working at this facility were polite and seemed efficient. The building and area looked clean and well-maintained. Unfortunately, that ends the good comments.
1) cost
Their staff believes that when you ask "what does this MRI cost", they are correct to answer a different question. They prefer to answer "what do you, person behind the desk, think I will need to pay for this?"
(I don't really blame them - I mean wouldn't we all really rather answer different questions than we are asked sometimes?)
So they told me an MRI of the brain with contrast would cost $567.22 and that I needed to pay it right away for the procedure to be done. Since I thought I was likely in that part of my insurance policy where I pay for everything, this was not surprising. Since the MRI took only 30 minutes and was administered by a tech, the cost seemed high to me but certainly not low.
Wasn't I surprised when the bill came in for $5,100!!! And my part was about $1400!
So if you go to this office anyways, don't just ask what it costs. Ask "What will you bill my insurance for" and then record their answer.
2) Competence with medical procedure
The tech worked on my 15 year old to inject the solution while she was in a headlock. She stabbed her 8 times on one arm and actually attempted to inject solution twice, each time blowing out her veins causing contrast to go under the skin. They had kicked me out of the room (wonder why?) and so they unapologeticly informed my child that injecting contrast causes pain when it blows out a vein. (Guess no one taught the tech the words "I'm so sorry to cause you pain".)
The tech decided she needed help so she brought in another tech who proceeded to make a pin cushion out of her other arm. (Perhaps phlebotomy training would be good for them - blood draws are no problem for my daughter.)
Finally they got the contrast in. As we left, no one gave us follow up instructions either written or oral. No one told me about the horrific proceedure my child had endured.
So later that night, when my daughter seemed very sick and had really sore arms, my father asked "did you make sure to get the recommended 8 glasses of water through her in a few hours" I was shocked. We were given no such instructions.
Again, if you brave this pretty looking place, ask the people slowly and carefully for the follow up instructions. Or call Grandpa right away.
3) Inaccurate expectations
As we left, I asked when we could expect results. I was told that my daughters referring Physicians Assistant had marked it "stat" and so 24 hour turn around could be expected. So the next day, I tried to get answers.
In reality 5 days later, after we had been told she might have a brain tumor by the PA, our PA explained that she had *NOT* marked it stat. She wanted thorough and careful attention given to it. Vision Park made another error.
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Don't go here. If you need medical imaging, you probably don't have extra money or time to spend on this. read more