Welcome to our practice! Below you will find the new patient forms required for your first visit to our office. Please print out and complete these forms and bring with you to your consultation.
At each office visit you will be expected to pay your specialist copay as determined by your insurance plan. In addition, you must bring your insurance card with you to each appointment.
Please take a moment to review our Notice of Privacy Practice. A printed copy of this document is available upon request. If you have questions regarding these forms or your upcoming appointment, please contact us at 704-370-0223.
If your child is a new patient please print the following new patient forms and bring with you to the appointment. Printable directions to our office are also available below. If you need to request your child’s medical records, a medical release form signed by you, the guarantor, is required in order to comply with HIPAA regulations. Please print the following medical records release and complete all sections. Call our office for more information on medical records.
Surgical Care
Once your child is scheduled for surgery, a member of our nursing staff will call you to personally discuss all the pre-surgery instructions necessary to prepare for your child’s upcoming surgery.
At the hospital, you will be given written instructions for taking care of your child after you get home from the hospital. Please do not hesitate to call our office if you have any questions regarding post-operative care.
Resources
The internet is full of useful (and unfortunately sometimes confusing or misleading) information about surgical conditions in children. Please contact our office and speak with one of the surgeons or nurses if you have any questions before or after your consultation. Should you choose to further your own research about your child’s condition, The American Pediatric Surgical Association has very reliable, useful information on their website at www.pediatricsurgerymd.org.
How do I choose a physician?
Finding the right doctor for your family is one of the most important decisions parents make. The task can be daunting. To help in your search, we’re giving you our insider’s perspective. We use the same approach for choosing a physician when our own children are ill. Evaluating who is a “good doctor” can be extremely difficult, even for us. A good bedside manner is not enough. You also want to know how well that doctor can assess the problem, determine the appropriate treatment, and then execute that treatment in a skillful manner. The last points can be very difficult to determine, and it is often only the physician’s closest colleagues in his own field that know the true extent of his abilities. Despite these difficulties, there are some basic questions families can ask that can help provide clues to a physician’s abilities and how well their children will be cared for:
Why Choose PSA?
At Pediatric Surgical Associates, we are all up to date, board certified pediatric surgeons with almost 100 years of combined experience in every general, thoracic, and laparoscopic pediatric surgical problem. We operate at both children’s hospitals in Charlotte, NC: Levine Children’s Hospital (Carolinas Health System) and Hemby Children’s Hospital (Novant Health), and can help you choose which would be best for your family. We function as a true group, in which we share clinical responsibilities and maintain close communication amongst the partners, ensuring excellent continuity of care for our patients, even if the primary surgeon is not directly available. Yet, we also strive to maintain that one-on-one relationship with families that is so important to develop the trust that helps our patients and their families get through the stress of surgery. The surgeon you meet pre-operatively, is the surgeon who performs the operation. Yet that individual surgeon has the support of his other partners as well, tapping into their expertise and energy to ensure optimal outcomes for our patients.