Policies

Ohio law states that nurse practitioners working independently cannot initiate controlled substances.

Fees and Payments

Fees are standard and based on the complexity of your visit. Insurance co-payments are due at the time of service and can be made with cash, personal check, money order, Visa, MasterCard, or Discover.

While, filing insurance claims is a courtesy that we extend to our patients, all charges are your responsibility from the date services are rendered. Your insurance is a contract between you, your employer and the insurance company.

Before your visit, contact your insurance company to verify that we are participants in your plan, and that the services you intend to receive are covered. In order for us to file a claim, you must present a CURRENT copy of your insurance at each visit and communicate any changes in your personal information.

Not all services are a covered benefit in all policies, so it is very important that you understand the provisions of your individual policy. Insurance companies select certain services that they will not cover, therefore we can’t guarantee payment of all claims by your insurance company. Reduction or rejection of your claim does not relieve you of your financial responsibility. 

Required at Check-In

1. Verify Personal Contact Information

2. Present Current Copy of Insurance Card

3. Present Current Picture ID

4. Payment of any Outstanding Balance

5. Payment of Today’s Visit

We will verify your coverage at each visit. If we are unable to do so, you will be considered self pay and will be responsible for your visit.  In order to address the needs of our patients without insurance and patients with coverage limitations, we offer a 50% discount off our standard fees. This discount acknowledges the lower cost involved in billing and collections when a claim does not need to be submitted to a third party payer. In order to qualify, payment needs to be made IN FULL prior to or on completion of your visit.

Medicaid

We gladly accept Medicaid and will bill our services at the allowed rate. Your current card must be presented at each visit. With Medicaid policies, patients may be switched between medicaid payers from month to month. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO PROVIDE THE CURRENT INFORMATION AT EACH VISIT.

We recommend vaccinating children on the current recommended vaccination schedule and feel vaccination is very important. We are more than willing to discuss any questions you may have about vaccines.

• We firmly believe in the effectiveness of vaccines to prevent serious illness and to save lives.
• We firmly believe in the safety of our vaccines.
• We firmly believe that all children and young adults should receive all of the recommended vaccines according to the schedule published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
• We firmly believe that vaccinating children and young adults may be the single most important health promoting intervention we perform as health care providers, and that you can support as parents/caregivers.

The recommended vaccines and the schedule of administration are the results of years and years of scientific study and data-gathering on millions of children by thousands of our brightest scientists and physicians.

The vaccine campaign is truly a victim of its own success. It is precisely because vaccines are so effective at preventing illness that we are even discussing whether or not they should be given. Because of vaccines, many people have never seen a child with polio, tetanus, whooping cough, bacterial meningitis, or even chickenpox, or known a friend or family member whose child died of one of these diseases. Such success can make us complacent  about vaccinating. 

Over the past several years, many people in Europe have chosen not to vaccinate their children with the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine after publication of an unfounded suspicion (later retracted) that the vaccine caused autism. As a result of under-immunization, there have been small outbreaks of measles and several deaths from complications of measles in Europe over the past several years. The United States experienced a record number of measles cases during 2019, with 1282 cases from 31 states reported to CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD). This is the greatest number of cases since measles elimination was documented in the U.S. in 2000. There was also a recent outbreak in Columbus, in which  those affected were either not vaccinated or too young to be vaccinated; 40% of the children affected were hospitalized.

If you chose to not vaccinate your child, we will educate you on each vaccine and disease process and have you sign a 'Refusal to Vaccinate' form to have in your child's chart. Ultimately, you are the parent/guardian and it is your decision; we are here to help guide your decision making.