Preventive Medicine continues the legacy of offering complementary, nutritional, preventive and traditional therapies. We plan to allow you sufficient time to present your concerns, order clinical tests necessary to understand your condition, and help you develop a workable plan for optimizing your health.
Finally, healing involves more than the use of drugs, procedures, nutritional products and herbal remedies. It involves using your mind, body and spirit to pursue health. I will offer all the tools at my disposal to help you in your quest for well being. "
Dr. Varsha Rathod, M.D.
Steps to Becoming a New Patient
1) The first step is to schedule a new patient appointment. This visit includes a 1 hour session with the doctor. The doctor will review your family history, your medical history, examine your current health status and possibly recommend specialty testing to further expose deficiencies in the body (if any). You will be asked to complete a health assessment test which will give Dr. Rathod some real-time insight to your digestive, kidney and circulatory systems. Your first visit typically ranges from $800-$2000. This range includes specialty tests costs. You may be a candidate for a few or multiple tests. Each patient has a different situation. Therefore, we are unable to provide you with the exact cost for your first visit. Additional fees on your new patient visit will include vitamins, extra- time spent with the doctor.
We ask that new patients perform a health assessment test. This test is done in the office and can be scheduled on the same day as the new patient exam, 45 minutes before the actual visit, or it can be scheduled any day prior to the first visit. A staff member can assist with scheduling and reviewing guidelines for this test.
2) Once all of your results are in, our staff will contact you to schedule your new patient follow-up visit. On this follow-up visit, the doctor has received all of your laboratory results and is ready to customize a treatment plan for you. Additionally, you will complete a BCA (body composition analysis that will give the doctor insight to your cellular health). The typical follow-up visit is 45 - 60 minutes and costs approximately $269.64.
New Patient Checklist
- Call our office to set up an appointment: (314) 997-5403.
- Please arrive 60 minutes prior to your appointment to perform the health assessment test and to get checked-in to see the doctor.
- Bring a copy of any recent lab results, x-ray reports, etc.
- Bring a list of the vitamins and/or medications you are currently taking.
- Prior to your visit, please fast according to the New Patient fasting guidelines.
- Bring in your first morning’s urine after 4AM in the urine cup provided; if you do not have a specimen cup, please use a small sterile glass jar.
- Please bring your insurance and/or Medicare cards.
- Patients will always receive a copy of the doctor’s office notes and any labs ordered by the doctor.
- Patients should expect to spend approximately 3 hours at the office.
- All patients pay at the time of service. We accept cash, check, MasterCard and Visa.
- We will call you to confirm your visit 2-3 days prior to the appointment date.
- If you need to cancel or reschedule your appointment please give the office at least 24-hours notice. Failure to do so results in a cancellation fee of 50% of the scheduled appointment.