Inpatient Medicine Service is a private practice composed of Board Certified Internal Medicine physicians. Our physicians practice exclusively in the hospital. You may have heard this type
of physician referred to as a hospitalist or intensivist; either term is correct.
Our primary concern is to manage your care while in the hospital. When you are discharged from the hospital it is your responsibility to make an appointment with your primary care physician. A
discharge summary dictated by one of our physicians will be faxed to your physician after you have left the hospital. There may be situations when one of our physicians has been asked to see you by a
surgeon. This practice is very common if situations arise that are medical in nature rather than surgical.
Our Physicians
Our physicians are on call for patients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days of the year. We are not employees of the hospital. Our billing is done internally and our staff is available to
assist you with any concerns regarding the billing process. As a service to you, we will bill your insurance company for all services rendered by our physicians. After we receive information from
your insurance company, we will send you a statement with a balance due (if any).
Our Billing Staff
Our billing staff is dependent on information given to us by the hospital where you were treated for your billing and demographic information. There are many times when we are not given complete
information for a variety of reasons. We strongly encourage patients to take a proactive stance with their insurance carriers. Be sure to read the fine print of your policy. Your carrier is not
necessarily trying to deceive you in these cases; but some policies have very intricate rules about what is and is not covered. Traditional medical policies reimburse based on the carrier's own
schedule of "reasonable and customary" fees for each type of service. These will often be less than what we and other hospitalist practices in the area typically charge.
If there are special circumstances regarding payment of a balance please contact us in writing so we may assist you. Also, for your convenience, we accept Visa and MasterCard
