Menu Home About Us Forms Office Information Patient and Family Resources     Office Information   Contact Information   Address 10807 Falls Road, Suite 200 Lutherville, Maryland 21093   Phone 410-321-9393   Fax 410-825-4945   Map/Directions Click for Google Maps       Back to top   Office Hours   Our office is open:   Monday-Friday 8:30am-5:00pm   Saturday 8am-12:30pm   Sunday 9am-11am for EMERGENCIES ONLY   Our lab is open:   Monday - Friday 9am-4:30pm   Saturday 8:30am-11:30am   We are available after regular business house for emergency and urgent medical issues only. Emergency telephone calls should be placed only if you or your child require(s) a potential Emergency Room evaluation. Urgent telephone calls are for medical concerns that cannot wait until the office opens the next day. Non-urgent medical issues, routine questions and concerns, medication refills and scheduling of appointments are best addressed during regular office hours. Instructions for contacting the on call physician for emergency and/or urgent medical issues are available by calling our main number 410-321-9393.   In the unlikely event that our phone system malfunctions or you do not receive a timely response, please go directly to the nearest emergency room.       Back to top   Financial Policy Disclosure and Agreement   The Maryland Pediatric Group, L.L.C./Pediatric Consultants P.A. would like to take this opportunity to inform you of our practices updated financial responsibilities. These policies protect our ability to successfully provide care and responsibly adhere to mandated guidelines established by patient selected and contracted insurance companies. Your familiarity with the following policy statements and your willingness to comply, are imperative for the delivery of our pediatric care. You will be asked to review this information and sign it at your next visit. Click here for full agreement       Back to top   Appointments   Patients are seen in the office by appointment only. For your initial visit please arrive in the office fifteen minutes early to fill out necessary paperwork. If you prefer, we can fax or email the forms to you in advance or you can download them from this site. Please bring your child's insurance card to all appointments. Your cooperation is necessary to keep us on schedule.   Future Appointments   Well Child Appointments are the routine visits scheduled at regular intervals with your child's pediatrician. These visits usually include a history, physical examination, and time for discussion of problems. Immunizations, routine blood, urine and tuberculin tests, vision and hearing screening are all done at these visits as indicated. After your newborn's initial office visits, infants are seen every 2-3 months for the first 12 months. During the second year, children are seen at 15 months, 18 months and 2 years. Children are seen annually thereafter. These appointments are typically scheduled at least two to three months in advance. Please call by May to schedule visits needed over the summer.   School and Sports physicals are often required by schools within the six month period before school begins. If you know that your child will require a school or sports physical please call ASAP to schedule. During the summer months, the pediatric nurse practitioners offer additional Saturday sports physical clinics. Spaces in these clinics are limited so please schedule early.   Follow up appointments are appointments that your pediatrician has requested you make to evaluate ongoing medical issues. Examples of these appointments would be weight check visits, headache follow up visits, developmental follow ups visits and asthma follow up.   Future appointments can be scheduled by clicking here or by calling 410-321-9393 and selecting the option for 'future appointments'.   Acute Sick Appointments are appointments needed for a new medical concern. Examples of these appointments would be evaluation of ear pain, sore throat, cough, wheezing, rash and abdominal pain. We will do our best to schedule these appointments with your primary pediatrician but you may also be offered an appointment with another physician or pediatric nurse practitioner in the office. Since these appointments are for acute issues, your child's appointment will be scheduled for the first available appointment that day in order to accommodate all children who need to be seen.   Monday - Friday Please call 410-321-9393 from 8:30 AM until 5:00 PM Saturday Please call 410-321-9393 from 8:30 AM until 12:30PM   As a convenience to our patients, we offer an EARLY morning call time for same day, quick sick appointments. Monday - Saturday Please call 410-427-1690 from 7:30 am - 8:15 am.   Please note: Acute Sick Appointments may be not scheduled via email.   Missed Appointments/Late Cancellations   Broken appointments represent a cost to us, to you and to other patients who could have been seen in the time set aside for you. Cancellations are requested 24 hours prior to the appointment. We reserve the right to charge for missed or appointments not cancelled within 24 hours appointments. The charge for missed appointments is $25. Excessive abuse of scheduled appointments may result in discharge from the practice.       Back to top   Red Flag Rules   The FTC, the federal bank regulatory agencies, and the NCUA have issued regulations - Red Flags Rules       Back to top   Insurance & Payments   We contract with many insurance plans and accept cash, check, Mastercard and Visa.   Payment of all Co-Pays and Deductibles must be made at the time of all visits. You will be expected to show your insurance card each and every visit. If your child comes to the office alone or is brought in by someone other than a parent, please make sure your child's insurance card or a copy accompanies him/her. If you do not have your insurance card with you at the time of your child's visit, you may be asked to sign a waiver for services incurred since we will not be able to verify your insurance.   If we do not participate with your insurance company, full payment is expected at the time of any office visit.   We currently have insurance contracts with the following:   Aetna Choice POS Choice POS Open Access Choice POS II (Open Access) Open Access Elect Choice EPO Open Access Managed Choice POS Elect Choice EPO Elect Choice EPO (Open Access) HMO HMO (Open Access) Open Choice PPO QPOS Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Choice Network Maryland POS FEP Blue Preferred Nat'l Capital Area Indemnity Select Preferred Providers PPN/PPO MD Select Preferred Providers PPN/PPO DC Preferred Provider Org - MD Indemnity Personal Comp - Indv. Coverage CIGNA Choice Fund Network HMO/POS Open Access/Open Access Plus In-Network PPO & EPO Indeminity Coventry HMO POS PPO-Health Assurance EHP Basic Premium Classic GHMSI (Under BCBS Regional - DC area) PPO HMO Indemnity Humana PPO & EPO POS Choice Care Life Bridge Health   Mamsi Mamsi Life & Health MDIPA Optimum Choice OneNet Multiplan Multiplan PPO* PHCS PPO Tricare PPO (only) Unicare   United Healthcare Choice/Choice Plus/Choice HMO Options PPO Select EPO/ SelectHMO Select Plus POS/ Select Plus HMO       Back to top   Referrals   If your insurance requires a referral authorization, you must obtain that authorization from our primary physicians prior to going to your appointment except in emergencies.   Please call our referral coordinator (410-427-1648) at least seven business days in advance to allow us to assure that your documentation is complete. Emergencies will be handled accordingly.       Back to top   Record Requests   If you require a copy of any portion of your child's record please contact us at 410-321-9393. Please note that we require at least 7-14 days for completion of these requests. There is a fee for each page you request from your child's or your medical record. If you require a copy of the records by the end of the next business day, we would be happy to compile those records for you for an additional fee of $25. All record requests must be accompanied by a completed record request form.       Back to top   Completion of Medical Forms   Because of the increasing demand, the complexity and repetition of the forms as well as the length of time it takes to complete forms, it is imperative that you bring your form to us as soon as it is received. The usual turn around time to complete, review and sign a form is a minimum of 7 to 10 business days.   There is a charge for completion of health forms on a per form basis- simple form $10, standard form $15, emergency form (one that is needed with 24 hours)- $30, complex form (the charge will be determined by the physician based on the complexity of the form). Please include a stamped and addressed envelope if you will not be picking up the completed form.       Back to top   Hospital Affiliations   We care for our newborns in the nurseries of the following hospitals and participate in the care of our patients admitted to these hospitals. Greater Baltimore Medical Center www.gbmc.org   Sinai Hospital of Baltimore www.lifebridgehealth.org   St. Joseph's Medical Center www.sjmcmd.org   Johns Hopkins Hospital www.hopkinsmedicine.org     Back to top     Copyright © 2008-2010, Maryland Pedatric Group, LLC, All rights reserved.  Site design & host: NeuronLinks, Inc.