Dear patients,
I wish to thank everyone for their patronage and giving us the opportunity to provide care for you. With the new year we are noticing several of the patients in our practice are buying HMO and other Medicare Advantage plans. Advantage plans also are networked plans often called PPO's or Preferred Network, ACO etc.
I am not a Medicare provider and certainly not a contracted HMO physician. In tightly controlled HMO products, my orders potentially may not be recognized including referral orders. I wanted to make sure that taking on such plans can significantly affect your specialists access. Additionally many HMO arrangements require that you see a networked primary physician in order to get authorization of the simplest of services. Please be aware of this.
I and my office will continue to function and serve you in the way our contract to members is outlined. I am not trying to advise you on what is your best options for considering whether to or which insurance product to buy but I do want people to be aware their decisions can affect them at a very real and personal level.
Being a service oriented practice we strive to accommodate all patients with the highest level of service. I do request that patients be mindful that walk in service requests may not be handled immediately due to scheduled time appointments.
We look forward to being of service in 2020. To Your Health!
Dr. Kordonowy
01/17/2020
