Transitions and Care After a Program

A fair number of the calls we take are not from people starting out. They are from people whose clinic closed a service, whose insurance changed, who moved across the valley, or who simply want their care handled somewhere else. That is a normal thing to need, and it is worth handling deliberately rather than letting care simply lapse.

If that is you, bring what you have -- visit records, prior lab results, and what a previous clinician told you -- so the new clinic is working from real information. If a program you were in included prescription medication, the plan for what happens next is a clinical decision between you and a licensed clinician, and it belongs in a real appointment rather than in a phone call with a referral line.

What this usually involves

• Ask any clinic what its plan is for stepping care down or ending it
• Ask whether records are sent to your primary care physician
• Bring prior records and lab results to a new clinic if you have them
• Tell us if your program ended abruptly -- it changes the referral
• You are not obliged to return to a clinic you were not comfortable with

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