Health Insurance
Accepted Insurance Plans
In addition to offering excellent cash rates for our medical services we also are able to accept or work with the medical insurance carriers listed below. If you do not see your provider on our list please call us at (310) 836-2225 to find out if we can work with your carrier.
- Aetna Choice POS II
- BCBS Blue Card PPO
- BCBS California PPO
- First Health PPO
- Great West PPO
- Health Net California Large Group PPO
- Humana ChoiceCare Network PPO
- Multiplan PHCS PPO
- Medical Pay
- Multiplan PPO
- Oxford Health Freedom
- Oxford Health Liberty
- United Healthcare – Direct Choice Plus POS
- United Healthcare – Direct Options PPO
- BC PPO Plan – Not part of the Select
- Aetna PPO
- QME (Qualified Medical Exams)
Conditional Insurance Carrier Acceptance
- Blue Cross PPO plan
- Not accepted if within the Select Network
- CIGNA Open Access
- Not accepted if part of the Local Plus Plan
- CIGNA PPO
- Not accepted if part of the Local Plus Plan
- Personal Injury
- Liens from selected attorneys and Medical Pay from auto insurance
- Worker’s Compensation
- Authorization required first
Updated July 2017
Cash Options
Patients worry, rightfully so, if they have “lost” health insurance. We try to remind them that office visits with Dr. Schechter are surprisingly affordable. Even if you have to pay out of pocked for a physical (about $200) and 3 office visits (each $110-$150) a year, plus some lab work, you will typically spend under $750 for the entire year. So why do you need health insurance, with premiums often 400 to 1000 per month!? Hospitalizations and surgery are expensive and this is the great benefit of having health insurance. Office visits for family medicine and sports medicine care in our office are far more reasonable.