Business ProfileforProHealth Physicians, Inc

If your doctor tells you he or she is joining ProHealth, switch doctors. Their practice, in my opinion, is unethical. Before my doctor joined, I would have one physical per year. It is the one service my insurance covers at 100% (for the $12,000 I pay per year in premiums). Now that he joined ProHealth, he asked me to come back in six months despite no change in medications (in more than a decade) and no issues at the checkup. I didn’t understand why, but I did as told. Then, I got a $129 bill from ProHealth for the “follow-up visit” because it’s not coded as a wellness check. I called the doctor’s office and even though they agreed that the visit was a “checkup” since it wasn’t a follow-up to any complaint or change in medicine from the annual exam, ProHealth won’t approve more than one checkup per year - BUT they make the patient go twice a year to the doctor if they want prescriptions refilled. They shouldn’t have it both ways. If they don’t think you need to be checked on more than once a year if all is well, then it’s outrageous to say “but we need to check up on you every six months to make sure the medications that have been working for years are okay, and if you don’t do it, you’ll go without medicine for six months.” In my opinion, it’s a scam to make more money at best, extortion at worst. As a senior citizen, I think this is appalling. It will force people like me to scrape up more unnecessary payments or ration needed medications.