KFF Health News October 30, 2023
Christine Rogers of Wake Forest, North Carolina, didn’t hesitate when she was asked to fill out a routine mental health questionnaire during a checkup last November.
Her answers on the form led her primary care doctor to ask about depression and her mood, and Rogers said she answered honestly.
“It was a horrible year. I lost my mom,” Rogers said she told her physician.
After what Rogers estimates was a five-minute conversation about depression, the visit wrapped up. She said her doctor did not recommend treatment nor refer her for counseling.
“It’s not like anything I told her triggered, ‘Oh my goodness, I’m going to prescribe you medication,’” she said.
Then the bill came.
The Patient: Christine Rogers, 60, a...
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