Going rate for private physio (GRRRRR... BUPA!

[uwilalalalalala]

I'm so irritated with BUPA and Kingston Hospital. I had a test to check my bloodsugar levels recently. The test amounted to sitting on an exercise bike at Kingston Hospital for 30 minutes, and every 5 minutes my blood was taken, and then that was sent off for blood sugar levels. Right, so I got billed £200 for the consultant fee, £300 for pathology, and £628 for an EKG test.... a what?!?! So, I'm disputing it with BUPA / Hospital.

Anyway if the hospital want to charge for the use of the bike, then ok, but put it through as something a bit more realistic... say a 30 minute physio session.

Okay, so my question is does anyone know what the going rate would be for 30 minute physio session? I'm willing to pay a fair amount, but certainlynot £628 for sitting on an excersize bike for 30 min.

i would say in the region of £40 - £80.

Thanks, Bossykate. How are you? Are you on a hunt for a new nanny now? Poor you.

nobody else?

isn't an ekg a heart thingy? were you hooked up to monitors?

yes, it's an electrocardiogram... it reads the electrical activity in your heart

thats an ECG starlover.......

I had neither. That's the whole point. Kingston Hospital couldn't really figutre out how to charge the test so the nearest thing they founf in their system was an ekg test... WHICH I DIDN'T HAVE. I simply sat on thir exercise bike and pedalled away for 30 minutes. And I'm not paying £629 for that! So I'm going to counter offer with the going rate for physio. Hence, I posted this thread to sort out what the going rate for physio is.

all my experiences with BUPA have been good ones

why were they testing your blood sugar during exercise?

i googled it misdee... it can be spelt either way!

google results

Because I seem to have a problem with my blood sugar going too low between meals. So the test was to rule out an insulin producing tumor (which it did rule out). So, that's of course good. But I'm none too happy about this EKG bill.

EKG/ECG no you shouldnt be charged for that if you didnt have one.

an other monitors were used?

Now if only you worked at Bupa. :-)

The super-expensive graduate-qualifications-only place in the City I used to go to for physio charges about £42 I think. For a session, which is half an hour.

I'd just call a physio. Mine is called Josephine Lawson physiotherapy.

And boy do BUPA/Kingston hospital sound rubbish.

thanks, uwila. er, i'm facing redundancy in the new year, so am actually at rather a loss about what to do next on the nanny front! dh and i will have a good think about it over christmas and think about the best option in the circs.

good luck with this bupa thing.

So, the redundancy is definitely happening? So sorry. What a terrible Christmas present.