Office hours
If you are sick and need to be seen, just call. We have reserved space for emergency visits everyday. On call coverage - There is a physician from our group on call 24 hours per day, every day of the year. Though we are available, we strongly encourage patients to call during office hours to enhance our ability to provide optimal medical care. For office hours, please feel free to call the East Brunswick Office at 732-390-0044.
Financial Policy
- Every effort is made to provide affordable health care to patients.
- Payment is expected at the time services are rendered. Credit cards are accepted for services that need to be paid at the time of service, or for copayments.
- Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates, P.A. participates in many of the major insurance plans and HMOs
- Aetna - HMO-Specialist Only & PPO
- AmeriChoice - Primary
- AmeriHealth - Specialist
- Beech Street
- Cigna HMO and PPO
- Healthnet
- Horizon Blue Shield - Primary & Specialist
- Magna Care
- Medicare
- Multiplan
- NJ Carpenters Fund
- NY District Council of Carpenters
- Operatingt Engineers
- Oxford Helath Plan - Specialist Only
- PHCS
- Qual Care - Specialist & Inner Circle
- RR Medicare
- United Healthcare
- Please call for additional - Business-732-651-8077
Patients need to follow the rules of their respective insurance companies
- Obtain appropriate referral forms
- Verify coverage of certain services with the insurance carriers in advance.
- Pay the necessary copayments
- Price list of basic services
- Initial Evaluation-------approx. $50-$205
- Follow-up Evaluation-----$80-$150
- Spirometry-----------------$75
- Full Pulmonary Function Test------$300
- Pulmonary Stress Test-------------$400
- Sleep Study-------------$1200
Patient guidelines
Appointments
- Patients are seen by appointment
- This assures that the office is open and the staff can take care of you in a timely manner
- Patients can usually be seen within 24-48 hours of calling for an appointment, often on the same day.
Prescription refills will only be done during office hours.
- This is done for your protection to verify prescriptions and properly chart medications
- Requests for refills during nights and weekends will only result in receiving enough medication until the next visit or the office reopens
- It is not the policy of this practice to refill prescriptions prescribed by other physicians.
- Know your medications
- ALL patients receive instructions about their medications
- You must know what you are taking and why.
- It only makes matters worse if there is confusion about your medicine
- Do not share your medicine with friends or relatives.
Referring physicians
- We want to maintain good communication with your physicians.
- Please let us know the names of all of your physicians so we can send them the necessary referral letters.
- If you must be hospitalized, please let us know when and where you are being admitted.
