Positive TB test (Split from old thread)

[Bruce Gardner 1]

Dose anyone challenge the results from St. Luke's??????      Can you go to another hospital and get tested???  If it comes back negative then approach st. Luke's with this information....Im in the same boat as so many others now. My lady had something on her x-ray  (so they say) .   We are waiting now 4 of the 8 weeks for the call...   I plan on contacting my government on this matter.    I believe it's a SCAM going on to long......

Edited December 10, 2023 by Crazy Cat

[IWander 589]

1 hour ago, Bruce Gardner said:

Dose anyone challenge the results from St. Luke's??????      Can you go to another hospital and get tested???  If it comes back negative then approach st. Luke's with this information....Im in the same boat as so many others now. My lady had something on her x-ray  (so they say) .   We are waiting now 4 of the 8 weeks for the call...   I plan on contacting my government on this matter.    I believe it's a SCAM going on to long......

You woke up a thread from 9 years ago.  Next start a new thread.  To answer your question, unfortunately SLEC is gospel 

[Crazy Cat 41,611]

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[IWander 589]

Just curious, what part of this is a scam considering SLEC doesn't charge additional for this so there's no profit motive because they earn less when this happens.  

 

What they might be guilty of is being too cautious.

 

 

[SalishSea 17,747]

6 hours ago, Bruce Gardner said:

Dose anyone challenge the results from St. Luke's??????      Can you go to another hospital and get tested???  If it comes back negative then approach st. Luke's with this information....Im in the same boat as so many others now. My lady had something on her x-ray  (so they say) .   We are waiting now 4 of the 8 weeks for the call...   I plan on contacting my government on this matter.    I believe it's a SCAM going on to long......

I promise “your government” doesn’t make policy for hospitals in other countries.  

[RO_AH 1,659]

21 hours ago, SalishSea said:

I promise “your government” doesn’t make policy for hospitals in other countries.  

So who sets the policy for healthcare centers that are screening visa applicants?

[RekYan 7]

1 hour ago, RO_AH said:

So who sets the policy for healthcare centers that are screening visa applicants? 
 

CDC sets the policy for immigrants.

 https://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugeehealth/guidelines/domestic/tuberculosis-guidelines.html

[RekYan 7]

Just now, RekYan said:

1 hour ago, RO_AH said:

So who sets the policy for healthcare centers that are screening visa applicants? 
 

CDC sets the policy for immigrants. That specific link is for refugees but it’s the same for all immigrants. I’m just to lazy to find it.

 

 https://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugeehealth/guidelines/domestic/tuberculosis-guidelines.html

 

[IWander 589]

2 hours ago, RO_AH said:

So who sets the policy for healthcare centers that are screening visa applicants?

I was thinking the same thing.  I guarantee you, despite what another has said, an agency of our government absolutely sets the healthcare centers policy for conducting immigration medical exams for US visas.

[RO_AH 1,659]

3 hours ago, RekYan said:

 

Thank you but it was a rhetorical question

[SalishSea 17,747]

5 hours ago, IWander said:

I was thinking the same thing.  I guarantee you, despite what another has said, an agency of our government absolutely sets the healthcare centers policy for conducting immigration medical exams for US visas.

Not what I said at all.  We were talking about the protocols of a specific hospital, whose internal workings are not set by the US govt.  The CDC requirements for testing might be, but the minutiae of how it is done is clearly not.

 

I'm sure even you can see the futility of OP's wish to contact "his government" to complain about his perceived poor service at St. Lukes

Edited December 12, 2023 by SalishSea

[SalishSea 17,747]

7 hours ago, RO_AH said:

So who sets the policy for healthcare centers that are screening visa applicants?

Dept of State/US senator is absolutely not going to intervene because a petitioner believes St Lukes is scamming people by falsifying suspicious lesions on X-rays.

[RO_AH 1,659]

3 hours ago, SalishSea said:

Not what I said at all.  

Exactly what you said. Maybe not what you meant.

3 hours ago, SalishSea said:

I'm sure even you can see the futility of OP's wish to contact "his government" to complain about his perceived poor service at St. Lukes

Of course. Anyone with any experience in this area knows.

3 hours ago, SalishSea said:

Dept of State/US senator is absolutely not going to intervene because a petitioner believes St Lukes is scamming people by falsifying suspicious lesions on X-rays.

No one was telling him they would.

 

Plain and simple, they follow guidelines set by US. No petitioner is going to change anything by crying about it.

[minions2 24]

When someone had the BCG vaccine, their TB skin test would most likely be positive. That is why it is better to do the QFT blood test which is more accurate. But regardless, + TB skin test and + QFT should do CXR. 

 

[Bruce Gardner 1]

On 12/10/2023 at 11:37 AM, IWander said:

Just curious, what part of this is a scam considering SLEC doesn't charge additional for this so there's no profit motive because they earn less when this happens.  

 

What they might be guilty of is being too cautious.

 

 

Yes the US government regulation requires this,  the medical system thair dose profit from this i know  1,800.00 hundred  US dollars im paying for.. Just wondering how hundreds of thousand imgrants can walk in and we hand them money/phones/food so on so on NO MEDICALEXAM before comeing here,   im trying to fallow the law and having to jump thrue one hoop after another........