Unnecessary Procedure Performed Once She Was Told my Insurance.

I went in for a routine annual checkup. No complaints just wanted to update my prescription. However as the exam progressed she was confirming with her assistant the Medical insurance I had, to keep adding unnecessary procedure codes. Furthermore, she told me that I needed to have Prophylactic Laser Iridotomy. I have ZERO family history of glaucoma, ocular hypertension and or anatomically narrow angles (mostly patients of Asian descent) these are the primary reasons why this procedure is performed. Her behaviour was highly unprofessional and unethical. When I came back with eye-pain, headaches, blurry vision and bloody looking eye she told it had nothing to do with laser, I just have dry eyes.
According to Glacouma Today, “One of the procedures most frequently performed by glaucoma specialists and comprehensive ophthalmologists is the prophylactic laser iridotomy. To the asymptomatic and unsuspecting patient, the diagnosis of anatomically narrow angles and the suggestion of prophylactic LI can be alarming, which is why the recommendation of LI is a common reason for a second opinion.” Joshua R. Ehrlich, MPH, and Nathan M. Radcliffe, MD