[key12345]

Hello I am new here and I have a question and need to vent. I am sooooo fed up with psychiatrists. I have a diagnoses of ADD and complex PTSD that I figured out partly by myself. Well my latest psychiatrist insists that I take an ADD screening test that'll cost me $225 before he prescribes Ritalin.
I kind of don't trust psychiatrists because what they are doing isn't science. So I was wondering if anyone out there has had to pay that much for a screening test.
My hunch is no and it looks like I'll be moving to my 6th psychiatrist

Thanks

[gardenergirl]

That sounds like a lot for a screening test. If it were a diagnostic test, it would be more in line. I used to do ADHD testing in a college health center where I was doing an internship. Our battery of tests for assessing for ADHD cost around $450 and included an IQ test, personality assessment, clinical interview and history, and behavioral rating scale specific to ADHD. With that experience and training behind me, I would never consider a true screening tool to be adequate for diagnosing ADHD. I'd ask your doc just what this entails. It may be he's talking about a good test but just uses the term screening .

Hope this helps.

gg

[key12345]

Hello

Thanks a lot for replying that helps. I'll speak to my doctor about it

[gardenergirl]

Glad it helped. I should note that for the battery of tests I listed in my prior post, $425 is rather cheap. An independent practice psychologist would likely charge more, perhaps up to twice that, I'm guessing. The $425 is the amount that had been negotiated and contracted for with the Student Health Insurance company.

gg