High Ridge Family Practice

Value added services. High Ridge Family Practice offers several additional services focused on preventative medicine and wellness maintenance. Medicare, insurance companies and HMOs do not currently pay for these services, and so patients are responsible for payment in full.

Email consultation. Email contact with the physicians of High Ridge Family Practice is a non-covered service for certain types of medical care and communication. For more information, please see the Contact Information page.

Comprehensive medical services. High Ridge Family Practice offers two additional medical programs based on a greater connection with your physician. Platinum Medical Care is based on care beyond the usual and customary, and involves additional time and effort by your physician to specialize in you and your family. The Wellness Answer is a lifestyle modification program, medically supervised to prevent and reduce your chances of developing disease and to control and potentially reverse disease.

Patient care. On this page, you can find information regarding our office policies regarding payment, our participation with health plans, patient education, and value added services.

Participating health plans. We participate in the following insurance companies, HMOs, PPOs, and POSs:

Blue Cross Blue Shield
Healthnet
CIGNA Health Care
Connecticare
Oxford Health Plans
United Health Care
Medicare
Various PPOs, including:
- HMC PPO / Northeast Health Care
- Multiplan
- PHCs (Private Health Care System

Other office documents.

Office payment policies. Information regarding our policies about copays, insurance, cancellations, and methods of compensation.

Practice fees for non-covered services. The cost of providing medical care continues to increase. Despite this High Ridge Family Practice continues to bring its patients the most advanced primary care. In order to continue to provide the highest quality medical care that we feel our patients deserve we continue to ask for voluntary contributions toward administrative costs and malpractice costs to help us defray these enormous and ever increasing uncontrolled expenses.

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Maximizing the use of your health care dollars. Make your office visits according to the appropriate level of need for the problem you need to have addressed. Do make appointments regularly if you are on chronic medications.

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