Patient Intake
- As you set up your first appointment with our main office, you will be sent links to our electronic patient portal to fill out your intake paperwork in a paperless form.
- Paper intake forms will be provided only by prior request for those with special needs.
- Please fill out the provided online forms at least two days prior to your appointment.
- Any new patient without signed and returned intake paperwork will be rescheduled.
- Please read through the list of Office Policies below before your appointment.
Office Policies
Communication:
Appointments:
Prior or Outside Medical Records:
Billing:
- No medical information or suggestions will be made outside of an established appointment to insure continuity and quality of care.
- No patient information can be communicated via text or email as per HIPPA guidelines.
- All healthcare information must be provided via your Patient Portal.
- For continuity of care within established medical requirements, we cannot interpret any results unless provided through your patient portal, via fax from another provider, or
- Please makes sure you have "SHARED" all upload files with your provider (HIPPA guidelines)
Appointments:
- Functional Wellness Initial Visits or Re-activated patients (>1 year from last visit) will require a 1.5 hour consultation.
- Functional Wellness Follow up visits are 30 min without new data, or 1 hour with laboratory findings (whether internal or externally supplied).
- We will attempt to run as close to schedule as possible, but may run behind in cases of clinical necessity. We appreciate your understanding.
- For the courtesy of our other patients, any patient arrival more than 10 minutes late from the starting time of your appointment will need to reschedule.
- Please make any rescheduling requests at least 24 hours to your appointment.
- We reserve the right to bill patients for any skipped appointment without prior notice. (No Show Policy)
- Please arrive at least 20 minutes prior to any initial appointment, or 10 minutes prior to any followup appointment.
- We reserve the right to expand billing based on time utilized if your appointment requires additional time beyond your allotted appointment.
Prior or Outside Medical Records:
- Please upload all prior or outside medical records or medical information to be considered at least two days prior to your appointment. If you have physical records that need to be scanned in, please make sure they are mailed to our office or dropped by at least two days prior to your appointment.
- No records presented on the day of your appointment will be included in your evaluation, to insure the quality of their interpretation.
- No records will be read off of your personal phone or devices during your evaluation or appointment.
Billing:
- Superbills - must be request on the day of service. Super bills for are provided as a courtesy, but our office operates on a strictly direct-pay basis.
- No Insurance is accepted. We apologize, but the current medical model does not support a functional nutrition or natural approach.