an Integrative and Collaborative HealthCare model

In order to deliver you the best possible patient experience, Gainesville Holistic Health Center has implemented the following policies.  We appreciate your cooperation.  Feel free to contact us, info@ghhcenter.com, if you have any questions!

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Cancellation Policy

We ask that you be courteous to the following notices.  Failure to cancel within the allotted time will result in a fee.

• Existing or new patients, please give 24 hours notice of appointment cancellation.

• Outside office hours (7-9 am, 6-7 pm), a missed appointment fee of $70 will be automatically debited for the first offense. The fee will then depend on which practitioner(s) were supposed to be seen. 

 

Paperwork

In efforts to ensure we comply with privacy laws and high quality of care, we ask that you complete GHHC patient paperwork every year.  If you have not updated your file recently, please do so through our Silkone Patient Portal with you personalize PIN.

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Phone Consultations

It is important to all of the staff at GHHC that each patient has access to care regardless of distance.  In an effort to ease the phone consultation process, we have implemented the following:

• GHHC staff or physicians will call patients at scheduled times; please ensure you have given your preferred number to the front desk to avoid any delays.

• There is always a potential for your physician to be running late for scheduled consults; We ask that you allow a 30-minute window for such delays.  If you need to reschedule as a result, the front desk will honor that at no charge.

• The final charge includes the time your physician spent reviewing your chart or labs, time spent discussing the case over the phone, and time spent post-conversation, concluding chart notes, and writing treatment protocols.  (ie a 20min phone call typically includes 5’-10’ additional minutes of charting, review, and protocol updates).

• Fees for consultations will be billed in 15-minute increments. (ie, a 22min conversation plus 5min notes will incur a 30min charge).

• VIdeo appointments are also available, please contact info@ghhcenter.com for more information.

• If you have questions regarding your bill, email info@ghhcenter.com and billing@ghhcenter.com

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Office Visit Charges

Please be aware that your scheduled appointment time includes time the physician utilizes to review your chart, update chart notes, interpret labs, and communicate on your behalf with other practitioners.  A 60 minute appointment will typically include 45-50 minutes of face-to-face interaction with your provider with the remaining 10-15 minutes spent writing detailed treatment plans, instructions, laboratory requisitions and prescriptions.  A 90-minute consult typically includes 60 minutes of face-to-face interaction with the remaining 30 minutes reviewing chart paperwork and preparing other forms directly related to your individual care.

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If you are late for your scheduled appointment, you will be seen for the remainder of your scheduled appointment time and billed for the entire appointment.

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If your appointment extends beyond the scheduled time, you will be billed for that time in 15-minute increments, depending on the time actually used by the provider in coordinating your care.

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Telephone/Answering System

After hearing your feedback, GHHC management is making the following changes:

• Administration time will be shortened to 1 – 3 PM Eastern time.  During these hours, the front desk team will not be available to answer the phones.

• If you call during business hours and reach the voicemail, please leave a detailed message with your practitioner's and call-back number.  You may contact them via email for a faster response. 

 

Continuing Care

To ensure that each patient understands their commitment and expectations and to increase our quality of care we would like to point out the following:

• In-office consultations must take place at least once per year, preferably every 3 months.

• Out of state patients should expect a phone consult with their physician every 4 weeks.

 

Emergency Policy

GHHC is NOT an emergency clinic.  If you believe you are experiencing a true medical emergency, please go directly to your local urgent care facility.  The following are examples that involve urgent care:

• High Fever

• Difficulty Breathing

• Severe allergic reaction to medication or supplement

• Loss of consciousness

• Heart irregularities

• Severe dehydration

 

Emails

For privacy and best patient care, please direct all emails to info@ghhcenter.com.  Please allow 72 hours for a response.  If you need to reach a physician right away, call the office during open hours or contact your local urgent care facility. 

 

Emails sent directly to your practitioner may incur a $40 response fee. 

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Emails can contain brief, simple protocol clarification questions only.  Requests for lab requisitions or interpretations of results require a scheduled phone consult.  Discussion of any new symptoms or reactions to the protocol will require a phone consult.  Conversations about the rationale for treatments prescribed by a physician or regarding prognosis need to take place in person or on the phone.  Any emails involving chart review or medical decision-making are subject to a fee or a request for a phone consultation with your physician.

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Our payment policy is simple.

• Your bill is due at the time of service.

• If we fill your insurance, you have 60 days to pay the amount that the insurance does not cover or is partially covered.

• Credit card payments have a convenience fee of %3 per transaction

• We charge an 8% monthly fee if you are delinquent thereafter