Submit a request for a change of doctor on the Medicaid plan you are in together with the address of the new PCP via your plan provider’s website or change form from their local offices. Once that is done, wait for a week or two for the changes to take effect. In the meantime, y...
a POS plan will generally cover some of the cost of out-of-network care, as long as you have a referral from your PCP. (With an HMO, the referral still has to be for a specialist who participates in the plan's network. This is the case unless there isn't...
Now, that might be a common way to start a story for many of you, but for me, a vacation with my wife is actually a rare event due to my family dynamic with adult children with special needs (that may be a post for another day). As an emergency physician entering my twilight years...
Your EPO health plan generally won’t require you to have aprimary care physician (PCP), although getting a PCP is still a good idea. But the "rules" for primary care (and referrals, as discussed below) under EPOs, HMOs, PPOs, and POS plans have evolved a bit over time, and tend t...
“For me personally, I bought into the private practice. This allowed me to increase my income from an employed physician to a partner receiving partner salary and taking part in the profit sharing. We as a practice own the properties, as well, so I collect rent on the properties. I thin...
So I’ve done just that – I’ve gone to the site of a large academic medical center, searched for a PCP, and found a lot of options. However, the site doesn’t tell me if the provider I like is accepting new patients OR if they accept my insurance. My health plan’s website...
Then comes the step of visiting the provider. Number of visits (to physician offices, hospital outpatient and emergency departments) is 1.2 billion alone in the US [1]. Also, such visits turns out to be very costly. The only factor that makes it affordable is the healthinsurance ...
While you might need to see specialists for certain needs, your PCP is usually helpful for referrals when problems arise. Your overall care is ultimately of the responsibility of your PCP. As such they should be apprised of any medical tests or treatments done by specialists. You ...
But sometimes, it comes down to searching the “find a physician” site – the “provider directory” -- of my favorite health system, or my health plan. So I’ve done just that – I’ve gone to the site of a large academic medical center, searched for a PCP, and found a l...