'It's criminal': Women forced to pay $400 for diagnosis for debilitating health issue

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'It's criminal': Women forced to pay $400 for diagnosis for debilitating health issue
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When the pain suddenly came on, Emma Hurst would be left completely incapacitated. 9News

"I could hardly construct a sentence, could not stand, vomited multiple times from the pain, and my body was shaking uncontrollably," she recalled.

The New South Wales MP went on to have a series of similar experiences when working in her office before she had surgery to treat [email protected] "People were telling me, you need to go home. But the reality was, I couldn't drive home. I couldn't even walk downstairs to get into a cab." Sydney interventional radiologist Eisen Liang is among the medical professionals concerned about the financial implications for women who find their medical issues are not well covered.Every week Dr Liang sees patients suffering from severe pain and symptoms caused by women's health issues that are not supported by Medicare.He believes the out-of-pocket cost of an MRI to investigate adenomyosis is one of the reasons so many cases of the often-debilitating condition go undiagnosed.

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