RVTL Announces Vascular Screening Examinations

Richmond Vascular Testing Laboratory and General Surgeons, Inc want to inform the medical community that vascular screening examinations are now available in Richmond, on a daily basis.  Stroke Prevention screening, looking for the presence of critical blockages in the carotid arteries is available. Screening for the presence of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA) and Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD) are also available.  Outside organizations have intermittently come to Richmond and offered screening examinations to a limited number of patients.  Our goal is to allow all patients access to this service on a convenient and cost efficient basis.

The following examinations are now available:

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Who Should Be Screened?

Those asymptomatic patients who wish to be screened, but do not have Medicare approved diagnoses or symptoms are candidates for these examinations.  These patients may have a strong family history of one of these types of vascular disease, or have other signs of systemic vascular disease.  Smokers, diabetics and patients 55 or older are candidates as well.

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Who Should Not Be Screened?

1) Symptomatic patients,
2) patients younger than 55 years of age or those with
3) known disease in the Carotid Arteries, AAA or PVD should not be screened.  Patients with signs or symptoms of any of these processes and those patients with known disease should have diagnostic as opposed to screening examinations.  The screening examination is not accurate enough or complete enough to substitute for a diagnostic procedure.

Patients with a complaint of leg swelling should not necessarily be screened as swelling is not a symptom of PVD.  A different examination called venous ultrasound is available for those with leg swelling

A diagnostic examination can be arranged for those who are having active symptoms.

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Patient Costs

Medicare and other third-party payers do not pay for screening examinations.  Therefore these examinations involve out-of-pocket expenses for the patient.  At RVTL, out-of-pocket costs to the patient have been kept to a minimum, and are less expensive than our competitors.

One Examination              $40.00

Two Examinations            $80.00

All Three Examinations     $100.00 

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How To Order

Patients may call 765-939-9331 to schedule their screening examinations. Office hours are from 8:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. daily.

Preparation

There is no preparation for any of these examinations except for the need to have an empty stomach for the AAA examination.

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Results

Results are given to the patient immediately upon finishing the examination.  Any patient with significant findings is also asked to contact their personal physician to discuss the findings and any further follow up tests that may be needed.

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