Health Form Charge

[Katherine]

Hi, my doctors charges £85 to complete the health form, they phoned to tell me did I want it done but there is no chioce is there but to have your doctor do it?

[grindal]

Wow :eek: I remember at my initial training being toild it was anywhere between £25 and £50, the norm seemed to be about £40 but some where more or less expensive. My doc charged a nominal fee - £5. Makes you wonder how some can justify such extreme charges. I suppose your only option would be to phone around and consider moving docs for it - but thats quite a lot of hastle :rolleyes:

[Katherine]

Hi thanks I can't move doctors as its the only one in my village, the ones in the next villages are all run by the same company, they obviously charge the max at mine typical! Oh well will have to swallow it up and put it in my set up expensises!

[Sarahjlonguk]

Hi there.
OMG thats terrible, I've just had mine done and was charged £15.00 by my doctors.
What a cheek they only have to fill in a few pages on a form!

[Adiamond]

That's awful £85 :eek: I thought mine was bad at £13.50, I think it's because they know you have GOT to have it done so they charge silly amounts!!!!! x x x

[Zoomie]

Is there any harm in asking the GP's office what is involved in signing the form (its generally just verifying any info you have put, or disclosing something you perhaps forgot) and then asking if the fee was negotiable.

Unless the GP wants to do a full medical, I can't see how £85 is reasonable.

No harm in trying.

[sarah707]

I have known childminders charged over £100 so yours isn't the highest!!

Don't forget to put it through expenses :D

[AliceK]

Mine was £21.50. My doctor actually called me to go through it and write her bit in. The call took about 2 mins. Mind you they had it for 2 months and I had to chase it twice before they did it.

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[Winnie]

They can, & do charge what they like :angry: Afraid you have no choice.
A few years ago the support cm around here were asked to report back any excessive charges- not sure anything came of it.

[TheBTeam]

Drs are cashing in, 5 years ago they did mine for nothing 18 months ago they charged dh £55 for his!

[daniellemummy]

zoomie is right, see if they will negotiate!! say it would be such a shame for you to have to change doctors and would they accept say...£40 - more in line with other GPs? (still outrageous amount but better than what they are saying now!!)

Mine was £25....and literally a couple of ticks in boxes!! wish we could charge that kind of fees for all the paper work we'll have to do!! :laughing:

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[Tatjana]

When I asked them to justify charging £74 for mine, they said other drs charge much more....and in fact the charge had gone up to £84 but they would stand by the £74...gosh how kind they were to me:censored: :angry:

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[youarewhatyoueat]

Mine also wanted to charge £85 but I made an appointment to see the nicest lady doctor for something else and while there told her how much I wanted to go back to work but couldn't afford the charge, she did it for £35!!!!:clapping:

[Jen4Kids]

Yup mine cost £84 :angry:

[chewy sweets]

I was really lucky and only had to pay £8 for mine. Can't see how some doctors can justify charging £80 + all they've got to do is sign the form!:angry:

[Pippa31]

My doc wanted 82.50!!!! Quite were he got the 50p from I don't know... But I kicked up a fuss and got it for 40 in the end.. But that's still over the top.....

The only conclusion I can come to is we are in the wrong jobs!!! Or we don't charge enough for our services.... LOL:laughing:

[aly]

Mine charged £50.

I asked the Practise Manager why it was that much and she had even asked him it was to check the screen;.!!!

£50 a minute!! she couldnt believe it either but still had to do it at that.

[Bitsy Beans]

Mine did it for free :blush:
I was expecting some sort of charge but she didn't want any money for it.
I was well :eek:

[sharons]

Mine did it for free also

[candy cat]

I have just paid £84.50:( and a lot of the girls on my course have been charged about £31-£50.....then someone told me at some practises the office staff do the forms and just get the dr.to sign it.... so i was really annoyed!!!

just phoned to ask them to justify apparently they follow bm guidelines and it is up to them what they charge....she told me i was lucky as last week it has gone up to 88.50 now!!

[It's a small world]

Hi, my doctors charges £85 to complete the health form, they phoned to tell me did I want it done but there is no chioce is there but to have your doctor do it?

Hi

I got told mine would be between £10-£26 depending on how much doc had to fill in , only got charged £5.00 in the end bargain.

My friend was told £66-£80 but when she went to collect only charged her £15.00.

You might get lucky...worth querying though...good luck

[Daddy Day Care]

At my information session we was told that in our area charges range from £10 - one perosn paying £145. my doctors are bad for most things so wasnt looking forward to this but luckily it was only £15

[newminder]

I just paid £17.50 for mine. Seems unfair that there isn;t a set charge for this

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