We encourage you to call our office with any questions you may have regarding your condition. Please remember the doctors have many patients, both in the hospital and as outpatients, and each call cannot be personally answered by the physician. Our staff is trained to answer most of your questions, and they will relay all information to the doctor. Your call will be returned by the nurse or assistant at the earliest opportunity after reviewing the case with the physician.
Appointments
In order to best serve all of our patients, we recommend you phone in advance for an appointment. Our office number is 649-1186 (Naples) and 389-0684 (Marco Island), and 947-4700 (Bonita Springs).
We will make every effort to honor all time commitments and ask that you do the same. Occasionally, the doctor is called away for emergencies in which his subspecialty skills are required. Whenever possible, you will be fully informed of such an occurrence. Physicians’ Assistants are available as well to assist in your care.
Prescriptions
All prescriptions and authorizations for renewals should be requested during normal office hours.
Emergency
In the event of an emergency call 911. If you have an urgent question and need a doctor after hours please call the office at (239) 649-1186. The answering service will contact the on-call physician and your call will be returned as soon as possible.
A Final Word
We consider it a compliment you have chosen to come to our office. We will make every effort to make your visit a pleasant experience.
Fees, Payment and Insurance
Our physicians participate in the Medicare program. Medicare recipients are responsible to pay 20% of the approved Medicare allowance, if not paid by supplemental insurance. Our practice also participates with:
- Aetna PPO/HMO/OAP
- Aetna Select – referral req.
- Aetna Medicare PPO/HMO
- Allegiance – County Govt., Public Schools, NCH/Cigna
- AARP Medicare Complete
may require referral - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida – PPO Blue Options/ PPO Out of State/Medicare Out of State
- Cigna PPO/OAP
- Coventry Care Network/CCN
- First Health
- Global Medical Mgmnt.
- Golden Rule
- HealthSmart Preferred Care
- Humana Choice Care
- Humana Medicare PPO
- Medicare
- Meritain/County Sheriff
- MultiPlan/PHCS
- National Preferred Provider Network
- Tricare
- TriWest/WPS – auth req.
- United Healthcare PPO/HMO HMO, referral req.
- UMR
- WEBTPA/PPO – Collier patients via Aetna
We encourage you to call your individual plan to verify participation.
We are unable to accept Medicaid.
Transparency Information
In an effort to promote healthcare price and transparency to enable consumers to make informed choices regarding healthcare treatment, our business office team can provide estimate of charges prior to your procedure. Through the process of insurance verification benefits will be obtained to provide out of pocket expense information. Please note this is an estimate only, your actual cost may vary based on actual services rendered and final adjudication of your claim. Discounts are provided to uninsured patients. We also accept patient referrals from Community Charity organizations. Contact information will be provided for Anesthesia and Pathology service providers involved in your care to obtain cost information.
ASC pricing information is made available at www.floridahealthfinder.gov.
For additional information, please contact our Centralized Business Office at (239) 649-7879.