Advanced CardioMetabolic Screening
The SignatureMD Advanced CardioMetabolic Screening enables your physician to identify risk factors for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, the two most concerning medical epidemics in America.
Well before the onset of type 2 diabetes, your body is experiencing changes in three key areas; disruption in normal insulin functioning, hormonal changes and immune system activation. In most cases, with the right medical treatment and lifestyle changes, type 2 diabetes can be avoided or delayed. The Advanced CardioMetabolic Screening will help you and your physician to understand how your body is functioning in each of these areas and where treatment needs to be focused.
In recent years, research has shed light on the complex interactions in the body that contribute to cardiovascular disease (which includes heart attacks and strokes). We now understand that:
- It is not just the amount of cholesterol but also the type and size of cholesterol particles that impact risk.
- Chronic low grade inflammation accelerates the progression of cardiovascular disease.
- People with genetic pre-disposition for early onset disease require aggressive treatment.
- Type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes increase the risk for cardiovascular disease.
SignatureMD’s Advanced CardioMetabolic Panel provides you and your personalized physician with key insights into your cardiac risk based on this new found information.
Combined with your annual Executive Physical Examination, the results of the SignatureMD Advanced CardioMetabolic Screening will provide your physician with key information to use in the development of your personalized health and wellness plan. Please contact your SignatureMD Personal Physician to arrange for your test.
We have negotiated special discounted pricing for the Advanced CardioMetabolic Screening for our members.
- Patient Direct Discounted Price: $180 (standard price is $475)
- SecureOption® Price: $30 (qualifications below)
If you are a current subscriber/active member of a commercial insurance plan, indemnity, PPO, POS or other traditional insurance plan, excluding Medicare, Medicaid, other government plans and all commercial HMO plans, you are eligible to participate in the SecureOption program.
The SecureOption® Program
Limits your out-of-pocket expenses each time eligible laboratory services are performed. You pay the appropriate SecureOption® prepayment of $30 associated with the Advanced CardioMetabolic screening ordered by your physician. Biophysical submits an insurance claim and accepts the insurance reimbursement amount. The SecureOption® program provides you the certainty of knowing you will have no further expenses associated with lab services ordered on that day.
Provider must complete the following steps:
- Complete requisition including
- Diagnosis ICD-9 for medical necessity
- Insurance information
- Ordering Physician Signature
- Patient Signature for Insurance release of information, assignment of benefits and credit card authorization
- Provide SecureOption® Prepayment by placing Credit Card information on requisition.
- Provider and Patient must agree to respond to any insurance requests for information in a timely manner in order to resolve any pending claims.
- If payment from insurance goes directly to the patient, the patient must forward that payment amount, along with a copy of the explanation of benefits (EOB), to Biophysical.
