I am in my mid 70s and am having trouble with my speech similar to Jai Arrow, who I saw on TV. My doctor suggested we do a brain scan. I told him I couldn't afford the $300, so he wrote on the referral a request that they 'please bulk bill'.
I had a message on my phone virtually instantaneously when he sent the request. I had a call from a very abrupt woman from the imaging place who told me it couldn't be bulk billed as my doctor was not a specialist and the cost would be $300. I told her I could not afford that, and we left it at that.
