[dinosaur]

Something unusual, at least for me. Since I`m getting older, my doctor recommended I go a specialist for a ahem, procedure. Not a problem since it`s been done before but not lately.

I called for an appointment and among the questions asked was what is my driver`s license #. The more I think of this I`m considering it an invasion of privacy and a posible breach of doctor patient confidentiality. I base this on some of the threads about the V.A. having to turn over records to the feebs.
I did ask for a reason why but the person said she didn`t know.

Any valid reason for this?

Thanks.

[Greg L]

In case you decided to skip on the bill they have another way of tracking you? Just a guess.

Greg

[Mike Irwin]

Probably going to run an insurance and credit check on you. Yeah, a lot of specialists run credit checks on their customers.

Does Pennsylvania use your social security number as your DL number?

[dinosaur]

Mike, no, it`s different. I was thinking along the same lines AFA credit but I have good ins. and they know it.

I`m not going in for the test until I find out. It`s a routine thing, not an emergency.

[El Tejon]

dino, it COULD be:

1. a private admin thing, like the way they track the billing or insurance (you think they would use DoB);
2. could be a legal reason to combat fraud for insurance or medicare, etc;
3. could be used as presumptive evidence of identity for your state's Check Deception statute, depending on Penn's Woods statute, if the check the doc receives is bad.

Don't know for sure. Why not just call the office manager? HTH.