Fee structure, office policy and forms
Office Fees
My visit fees are very reasonable, transparent, and listed in detail on the wellness program page or by clicking here.
Patients have the option of signing up for my Annual Advanced wellness program for 1500/year, or paying for individual visits for $100 30 min or less, $180 for an hour(standard wellness plan). Visit fees for anti-aging consultations, and bio-identical hormone therapy consults have slightly higher fees, and are detailed on our site. You will not find this level of transparency in any insurance-based practice. Additionally traditional insurance-based practices are forced to see patients every five minutes to keep their doors open in this age of poor reimbursement for primary care. If a 2 to 5 minute visit is what you are looking for, then my practice is not for you.
For those who are interested in hormone replacement/anti-aging, I strongly encourage you to sign up for the advanced wellness plan, since the individual visit fee program (Standard Wellness)often ends up runing more. More frequent visits and lab monitoring is needed to keep you in your optimal balanced state.The Advanced Wellness also offers many discounts on services and products.
Why did I stop taking insurance? In 2009 I reached my tipping point with insurance companies. They have been unwilling to support wellness and preventative services beyond a pap smear and prostate exam. My passion is wellness and prevention, which was being discouraged by managed care. Making this difficult decision has given me more time to focus on prevention and wellness for you, rather than doing fast-food type medicine, paperwork and dealing administrative hassles of plans.
You can still submit our bill with codes to your insurance plan after paying for your visit with us. Most patients will get reimbursed for a good portion of visit, but since I am out of network, reimbursement will vary. They appear to treat patients much better than physicians, since you are their client. You can also still use insurance to cover labs, x-rays, medications, hospitalizations, if a benefit in your plan. Please note, you cannot submit your bill to closed networks ie: HMO's (Kaiser) or Medicare. I have several Kaiser patients, and we have had no problems with them running labs that I order.
In regards to fees for our Brain Health Program, and Aesthetic Dermatology, please see links on sidebar, and if a fee is not listed, feel free to call or email us.
About Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
For most indivividuals, I recommend a health savings accounts with catastrophic health coverage as the best option in our current environment. HSA's allow you to contribute $2750 as an individual or $5000 for a family. HSA’s need to be combined with a high-deductable plan, but have a much lower monthly premium and should save you money unless you have high monthly medication costs. Healthcare premiums have gone up 480% over the last 8 years, and unfortunately there are no guarantees that this trend will not continue based on recent health care reform passed. Contrast this to primary care physicians whose reimbursement has been flat for 10 years. HSA’s give you more control of your health care dollar to spend it on wellness rather than having a health care plan divert it towards their stock holders. Managed care lobbyists continue to work behind closed doors to reduce HSA’s contributions and push folks towards their traditional expensive plans. To gain more insight on the business model of managed care/insurance industry, read this by an ex-managed care CEO. Another great benefit of HSA’s is the ability to roll it over year to year, building a substantial savings that can be applied to medical care when needed. At age 65 you can withdraw the money for any reason. Flex plans are still a great option if an HSA isn’t possible, but you must spend it by year’s end. Click here for more on HSA's from Treasury Dept.
Forms for New Patients with Dr. Grover
New Patient Registration, or just come in 10 min. early to fill out.
New Patient, Skin care only registration, please also complete skin care procedure consents if applicable, see below. Thanks!
Notice of Privacy, HIPPA ( A required notice for patients by law)
Release of records from another physician to Dr. Grover Fax to us at 303-537-5639
Release of records from Dr. Grover to another physician Fax to us at 303-537-5639
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Hormone/Anti-Aging surveys
coming soon
Forms for Brain Health Program with Lori Miller: Please complete if coming in for a neurofeedback session.
Symptom checklist instructions
Skin Care Consent forms please print/read if coming in for one of these procedures or we can give you one at office to sign.
Photofacial/Intense Pulsed Light consent
Skin Care Post Treatment Recommendations
Post-IPL and Photofacial recommendations
Wellness Downloads
Blood Pressure Log with optimal blood pressure goals and recommendations
Basics of optimal supplementation
Anti-Aging Skin Care recommendations