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Primary Care


 

Fort Wayne Primary Care 

Primary Care and Internal Physician located in Fort Wayne, IN

Primary Care medicine offers a patient a provider, annual testing, and basic medications. Most patients who need a Primary Care provider have basic health issues or are healthy. Some patients may have only one health issue and can manage it by exercise, diet, or medication. But to be preventative and maintain good health, they will visit their Primary Care provider on an annual basis or as needed. 



Primary Care Q&A

Why is Primary Care being offered?

We continue to listen to our patients and realized they enjoyed working with the providers and wanted Primary Care medicine. 

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We take the time and listen to our patients.

The patient and provider will work together to create a plan to maintain optimal health and identify any issues that may arise.

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Primary Care provides the patient with an annual physical examination, which will include:

  • A weight and height check
  • Blood pressure screening
  • A vitamin and nutrient screening
  • Discussion about necessary immunizations and health screenings.
    • Mammogram
    • Cholesterol
    • Colon screening
    • Diabetes blood glucose screening
  • A time to discuss changes in health and create a plan for the coming year
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Laboratory Services

We offer a convenient onsite laboratory service by partnering with Pathology Laboratories. Same day service available.

 

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What we offer

Fort Wayne Primary Care offers both in-person and when available same-day appointments.

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Convenient reminders

We know our patients are managing home, work and children or aging parents. To make visiting our office a little easier we offer text reminders for upcoming appointments.

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Athena Health Patient Portal

Athena Health will provide Fort Wayne Primary care patients an online patient portal, allowing communication with the provider and the office. The portal will provide patients access to current lab results, medications, and patient intake forms.

 

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Accepted Insurances

  • Aetna
  • Ambetter**
  • Anthem
  • Caresource**
  • Cigna
  • Encore
  • Healthy Indiana Plan**
  • Hoosier Healthwise
  • Humana
  • Indiana Medicaid (traditional)**
  • Indiana Medicare (traditional)
  • Lutheran Preferred
  • MD Wise**
  • MHS**
  • PHP
  • Sagamore
  • 3Rivers Preferred
  • Tricare
  • United Healthcare

*Periodically insurances will require a Prior Authorization for Prescriptions, Imaging or other. Our office will submit the Prior Authorization form to the patient's insurance. However, if the Prior Authorization is denied and the insurance requests a Peer-to-Peer review with the Provider, we will no longer be able to accommodate this request. We apologize for the inconvenience.

**Fort Wayne Primary Care no longer accepts these insurances for Telemedicine visits. Patients must schedule an in person office visit.

FAQ's

  • Yes, it’s a division of Fort Wayne Integrative Medicine.
  • We have the same location but expanding our practice to include insurance based Primary Care.
  • Please contact our office at 260-999-6924 or fwimed@gmail.com. They will provide the proper paperwork required prior to the first visit and schedule an appointment.
  • Unfortunately ‘no’, the integrative services division consists of Liposuction, Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy, IVs, Bioidentical Hormones and Alpha-Stim®. None of which insurance covers. For specific integrative medicine issues, we will refer the patient to a 3rd party as we no longer offer integrative medicine.
  • Generally, health insurance will cover the cost of office visits and laboratory tests for evaluation of hormone related symptoms. However, insurance will not cover compounded bioidentical hormone pellets or pellet insertion.
  • Yes, the Primary Care provider will provide prescriptions for existing and new medications. Patients will need to schedule an appointment if any refills are requested.
  • If compounding medications are prescribed, the patient will need to make the initial appointment through Fort Wayne Integrative medicine. Any prescription refills after the intial compounding prescription can be refilled by making an appointment with the Fort Wayne Primary Care provider.
  • Periodically insurances require a Prior Authorization for Prescriptions, Imaging, or other services. Our office will submit the forms, however if the Prior Authorization is denied and the insurance requests a Peer-to-Peer review with a provider, we cannot accommodate this request. We apologize for the inconvenience.
  • We offer onsite lab services through Pathology Laboratories.
  • The provider will write a lab request; the patient can get their labs completed all in the same day provided there are no fasting or other requirements.
  • At this time, we refer all our patients with pediatric needs to Dr. Gridhar Veerula Jefferson Pediatrics 260-436-7722