We are participating Medicare physicians, a choice we made in order to provide maximum financial support to our many Medicare patients. This means that we accept Medicare's "allowable charge", leaving the remaining 20% due from the patient.
Since we write off a substantial "non-allowed" portion of our regular charges for Medicare patients, we ask for your full cooperation in meeting two obligations.

1. $100.00 deductible - payable each calendar year.
2. 20% of Medicare allowable charge - payable each visit.

If you have other insurance coverage along with Medicare, we need to know which insurance is "primary" (billed first) and which is secondary (billed second). This is most likely to become an issue when the patient or spouse has employer-provided health insurance. Please come prepared with all Medicare and other health insurance information so that we can make a correct determination together.

Calls regarding non-emergency medical problems and prescription refills should be made to the office (not the hospital) during regular office hours, preferably early in the day. We will do our best to return a call to you within the same day.
After hours, weekends and holidays, your call may be referred to our answering service. They will contact our cardiologist on-call for any emergency situation.
No routine prescriptions will be filled after hours or on weekends. Please plan ahead.