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Patient Manual > Referrals |
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Our Responsibility |
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insurance requires a referral from your primary care
physician, our staff will remind you to bring this referral in
order to ensure that the office visit will be covered.
Moreover, our staff will make every attempt to keep track of
referrals before a visit, and we will be certain before we
provide any service through our office that this service will
be covered as authorized by the referring physician's office. |
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Your
Responsibility |
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Because our staff will be reminding you to
arrange for a referral from you primary care physician when
insurance requires this, we expect these details to be take
care of at least 24 hours prior to your visit. Any deviations
from this procedure will result in unnecessary delays in your
office visit. We understand that these details may be a
burden, but it is a harsh reality of our current health care
system that if services under a managed care organization are
not authorized, they will not be covered.
If a co-pay is required with
your insurance, be prepared to pay this fee at the time of
your visit. If you do not have cash available, we do accept
Visa or MasterCard. Considering the fact that grocery stores
and other places of business require payment of this sort at
the time of service, this request is certainly not
unreasonable. |
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