Insurance Carriers 2010 Updates

Effective 12/31/2009 we will no longer be accepting all Kaiser Permanente patients due to the end of the contract year. We will however, still be able to accept Kaiser MultiChoice Plan patients.
Effective 12/31/2009 we will no longer be accepting Health Plan Services patients.
Effective 12/31/2009 we will no longer be accepting Department of Veterans Affairs [...]

Meet & Greet, Hospital Virtual Tour

[ July 15, 2010; 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. ] DeKalb Women’s Specialists will be hosting our bi-monthly meet and greet at the Women’s Center on Thursday, November 19.  All current and prospective obstetric patients are welcome.

The meet and greet is designed to familiarize patients with the maternity unit of DeKalb Medical Center. You will also have opportunity to chat with your doctors in an [...]

Flu Vaccination for Patients

Flu Vaccine
DeKalb Women’s Specialists is recommending the flu vaccine for all pregnant patients, Please check with you primary care provider or obtain your shot at you neighborhood Walgreens or CVS. Check with your insurance company about coverage.
H1N1 Vaccine
DeKalb Women’s Specialists will be providing the H1N1 shot to all pregnant patients. Pregnant women are the highest [...]

NextMD, Labcalls, Housecalls

Attention:
DeKalb Women’s Specialists now has NextMD. This is a safe encrypted software messaging system that allows patients to contact our office day or night with appointment requests, secure messaging directly to your doctor, medication questions, prescription refills requests or billing questions.
You must be an existing patient to have access to this service. Please call our [...]

When You No-Show

DeKalb Women’s Specialists eagerly anticipates the arrival of our patients for their appointments. In an effort to ensure that our patients keep their appointments, we give a courtesy call to all patients two days in advance. A two-day notice enables patients who have forgotten about their appointments to make work and childcare arrangements.
Although a courtesy [...]

Medicaid Update

With the recent change in Medicaid’s health care program, many of our patients have been automatically assigned to one of the three managed care organizations.
Of these three, DeKalb Women’s Specialists, along with DeKalb Medical Center at Decatur and DeKalb Medical Center at Hillandale, only contracted with the Peach State plan. Therefore, any patient who desires [...]