Post by @guyjantic@infosec.exchange

2026-09-28 22:46 UTC

Just a gosh darn minute. People who know about #USA medical #insurance and #medicalrecords and #legal stuff, I hope you will give some #advice. I'm trying to make an appointment with a dentist. They have a couple of pages of painfully repetitive forms to fill out online. At the end, they require a digital (like actual bitmap etc.) signature, and then they drop this. I can't make my appointment without signing and submitting this, and simultaneously agreeing to the stuff in this text. Is this normal? I mean the signature part. have I missed this in previous medical forms? It is alarming to me that they are asking me to give them my signature to use as they wish, whenever they wish, no expiration date, and no restrictions except "insurance submissions." Why do they need MY signature if I'm not submitting the forms? Isn't this how insurance works: the provider submits things and they sign or whatever? Is this standard practice and I just haven't noticed?

Replies (4)

@MarkRDavid@wandering.shop 2026-09-28 22:57

@guyjantic@infosec.exchange It can get a lot more ridiculous. My favorite story is when I'm actually on the operating table, ready for eye surgery (cataract, artificial lens for astigmatism) when they hand me a three-page document - in 8-PT FONT - to sign. I brought my sister (who drove me to the surgery) into the room to read it to me verbatim, before signing. They're all gaslighting, arrogant bastards. Give 'em hell. (Before, inevitably, you do sign. :eyeroll: )

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@FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange 2026-09-28 23:18

@guyjantic@infosec.exchange Dentists are fkn shady.

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@purple@nya.social 2026-09-28 23:37

@guyjantic@infosec.exchange i've seen similar before. if you are out-of-pocket then none of it matters anyway.

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@AdaraAstin@supervolcano.angryshark.eu 2026-09-29 08:49

@guyjantic@infosec.exchange Inv In my experience, as long as the software clears that you've attached the required file format in the required size, no one actually ever checks what you've attached. If you're feeling salty, you might attach a file that says: "I am being forced to sign this under duress; I do not consent to A, B, and C; I add the following conditions [X]."

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