FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

No. Naturopathic doctors cannot be contracted with insurance in CA. However, you can use your HSA/FSA account to cover visits. We can also provide you with a superbill to submit to your insurance and depending on which insurance you have you can get reimbursed for some portions of your visits.

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**You can run my NPI# 1871255984 with your insurance to see how much they would reimburse you if you see me.

While I can act as your primary provider, I encourage you to keep your main primary provider while working with me due to insurance limitations and this way you maximize utilization of your health benefits. I will work collaboratively with your healthcare team as needed. A provider like myself functions best as a complementary (fill in the gaps) type of care.

Yes. Depending on which type of insurance you have, labs can be covered by insurance typically. If not, I contract with private labs for low cost wellness, hormones and other labs! 

No. No one can guarantee that to be honest, and if they do they are lying to you! While I see a lot of success with most of my patients, it always depends on a two-way effort! The most successful stories are ones of patients who WANT to be healthy and are open to investing their health, in terms of time and cost. If you're not ready to work on your health and be on top of following up with your doctor, it's very rare you will see good level of recovery. Regardless, I have a small percentage of patients who saw very successful results from 1-2 visits. 

Not necessary if you're not ready for it. IF you for example want to focus just on your acne, or just on your hormones (including BHRT), or just your thyroid, or even just your eczema - we can do that to the best we can within your capacity. But you always have the option to do a full history/investigative type digging with me if you chose to! 

Yes! Naturopathic doctors are licensed providers with a licensing board in the United States and Canada. We attend a 4 year medical doctoral program and more than 8-10 years of total schooling (leaving us with a very very hefty educational debt in the high 6 digits!) and this gives us rights to prescribe medications and order labs. Plus we have to pass two centrally administered board examinations to practice medicine. On the other hand traditional naturopaths attend a very short certificate online program and are not considered medical providers, unable to diagnose, legally order or interpret labs or imaging and are not legally authorized to safely treat.

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Always check on license status of your provider here: https://search.dca.ca.gov/