humm m....I"m in California....maybe I should be trying to....get them to call me?
Why not give it a try
@Rufous McKinney?
The only thing you have to lose is an insurance co-pay and 40-60 minutes of your time.
It's very likely that if you called this week, your first-time appt won't be until 2023. So why not at least secure an appointment, and then you have plenty of time to prepare or change your mind?
I will post a link below that contains the telephone number.
One frustrating thing about Stanford is that every call (even when you are an established patient) goes through a generic call center. So, be prepared to spend some time on hold and then end up talking to someone who may not be able to answer all your questions, but will relay them to someone else, and that someone else will call you back in 24 to 48 business hours.
While this is frustrating to me when I don't feel well, it serves as a layer of protection between the public and the actual clinic health care providers, which allows them to focus on patient care.
Additional information:
I am on Medicare and they accept it across the entire Stanford Health Care Clinics, Hospital, and Physicians. No "pre-authorization" necessary.
After your first appointment, if you and your doctor feel blood work is necessary, and there is no Stanford Lab near you, they will route the lab order electronically to LabCorp or Quest.
In summary, they really know how to make it as easy as possible for a CFS sufferer to obtain health care, thus eliminating any real, or perceived, barriers to access to that care
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WEBSITE: https://med.stanford.edu/chronicfatiguesyndrome/patient-care.html
