Glad you've found another PCP to try with. Maybe it is just laziness on the office staff's part. I hope you have good luck with this next one. Glad you've already helped lighten their patient load, too. Hope you'll take the time to tell them you've done that and why--so they'll know that that sort of crap ends up costing them more money than just doing the right thing. (And don't kid yourself that insurance is a willing payor. It may seem like that. But if that were truly the case, they wouldn't have everyone jumping through hoops to obtain, give, receive or hedge on referrals.)

For a $350 basic office visit, he'd better be the chairman of the neurology faculty at your nearest medical school. Let's hope that's his fee for an extended evaluation/workup visit!!