New Patients
GETTING STARTED
We are excited to welcome new patients seeking rheumatologic care.
To schedule an appointment, follow these simple steps:
To schedule an appointment, follow these simple steps:
Referring Offices:
Thanks for choosing us to partner with you to care for your patient! We want to make this process easy for you so please fax us the following:
Fax. No. (916)-781-2029
- Patient demographics (including COPY of insurance card)
- Most recent office note(s)
- Most recent labs, if obtained
- Please be sure the reason for referral is clearly indicated.
If you wish to use a referral form, please find our referral form here:
Please check the insurance list on this page to determine what payers we do not accept. Self-pay options are available. Please contact our office for more details.
Patients:
Step 1: Check your insurance.
- We accept most major insurances at our practice but it will be your responsibility to ensure that we are in-network with your health plan. A list of insurance plans that we accept are listed here.
- Self-pay options are available. Visit costs, which do not include any procedures or injections, are as follows:
- New patient visits: $300
- Return visits: $150
Step 2: Have prior notes, labs, and imaging results sent to us.
- If you would like us to assist you with retrieving documents from your other provider(s), please complete and FAX or MAIL us this release form.
Step 3: Schedule your appointment.
- Once we receive and review your medical records, we will call you to confirm your information, insurance, and schedule an appointment. We don’t like long waits either so we will do our best to get you in quickly!
PREPARING FOR YOUR VISIT
Pre-register for your Appointment:
- Let our staff know if you need help to activate your PatientAlly portal. Set up your account to fill out all the required forms electronically
- If you do not fill the forms electronically via PatientAlly, please arrive 30 minutes before your appointment to complete the required forms.
Please bring the following to your appointment:
- Drivers License or ID Card
- Insurance Cards
- Method of Payment ( we accept cash, checks or cards- there is a card processing fee )
- List or bottles of ALL medications you take
Insurances we take:
- Aetna
- Alignment Sutter Plan
- Anthem Blue Cross
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Shield of California
- Champ VA
- Cigna
- Covered California Commercial PPO plans
- Healthnet
- Hill Physicians (ALL COMMERCIAL PPO plans)
- Humana
- Medicare and medicare supplement plans
- Sutter Health Plans
- Tricare
- United Healthcare
Insurances We DO NOT take:
- Covered California (EXCEPT as mentioned above)
- Medi-cal
- Partnership Health plan