Preventive Healthcare is a process, not an event. You need an ongoing relationship with WellMax so that you can access your data, and you need to be able to access a live person who knows you and your health information, throughout the year. By participating in our Membership Program, our patients know that they have access to their personal complete, up-to-date medical chart, and may be assured of access to our healthcare professionals for questions or problems.

Personal Health Portfolio™
WellMax obtains your medical records, organizes them, creates a checklist of recommended tests, searches and obtains your information (blood tests, CT scans, X-rays, physical exams) from other doctors and facilities. We combine those with your medical records from your visits here. Then we enter that information into your private Personal Health Portfolio™. It is maintained and updated for one year and can renew annually. WellMax Membership builds upon the Portfolio described above. You can access not just your portfolio information, but you also have access to our healthcare professionals either for information or in the event of an emergency.

What are the benefits of the Personal Health Portfolio™?

• Personal confidence that your screening health issues have been fully addressed.
  
• An organized, practical, ongoing management of health screening.
  
• Access to your all of your health information anytime, anywhere.
  
• Less risk of unwanted heart attack, cancer or other disease that could have been avoided.
  
• Each of your doctors can understand what your other doctors have recommended or prescribed, and have access to any test results.
  
• You control who sees your health information and they can see only what you want them to see (for example, you may provide the orthopedist examining your shoulder with your ECG and blood tests, but not your sexual history or examination).
  
• You are alerted to the need to obtain any additional testing or consultations (e.g. blood tests, physician examination, mammogram, colonoscopy, etc.) to the extent that that need is discernable from the medical record.
  
• The cost of many new tests or procedures may be reimbursed by your health insurance company (depending upon your “diagnosis” and your specific insurance policy). We provide complimentary billing that you will submit to your insurance company for reimbursement.

Example: Another doctor may have already obtained timely blood tests like LDL cholesterol and liver function tests. These would be entered into your Personal Health Portfolio.. But maybe we discover you have not had other blood tests, like tumor-screening markers such as NMP, CEA, CA125 or PSA (that screen for bladder cancer, colon cancer, ovarian cancer and prostate cancer, respectively). WellMax informs you and offers these to you. You may decide to obtain the PSA (for men) with another doctor (near home if you’re out of state, or possibly with a specialist that you already visit). We would acquire the test result, complete your portfolio, and flag it for any necessary follow-up. Or, we can draw the blood for you at the WellMax Center. In most cases, we can arrange to have it drawn at a location near you.

What’s included with the WellMax Personal Health Portfolio™

• WellMax patient advocates collect all of your medical records and organize the information.
• WellMax will create and maintain your health information. New test results obtained locally through WellMax are entered immediately and updated.
• You can see all of this data quickly and efficiently in one place: a personal notebook, or a CD with your password.
• Our colleagues at WellMax will help you (or your doctor, with a copy to you) to understand the results with explanations and “knowledge links” to learn more.
• WellMax also provides a framework of needed health information and puts the data you have (and obtain) into those fields, i.e. we fill in the blanks.
• WellMax notifies you regarding screening health tests and measures that are not up-to-date, as well as any further testing that is indicated by initial screening tests results, with the rationale for our recommendation.
• You decide which of these tests are appropriate for you.
• Recommended tests can be performed at WellMax, or anywhere you choose, even out of state. The results will be added to your health portfolio.
• All of these services above are completed and updated at least quarterly.
• WellMax routinely monitors research in many medical fields. Included in this Membership is a regular review of your Portfolio to see if recent research might be useful to you in managing the risks associated with your help. If we find studies that address any aspect of your situation, we will contact you and suggest additional tests of recommend some other action.
• The WellMax Membership is not a medical professional service. But we can add physician consultation as needed.
• Prescriptions cannot be written based solely upon Portfolio maintenance. The actual delivery of healthcare requires a history and physical by law.
• Medical tests, whether lab, imaging, or personal consultation with the exercise physiologist or physician, are additional costs.
• The recommendation of specific tests is included in the Portfolio service. The coordination, arrangement and interpretation of new recommended tests are an additional cost. These services are all included in the Comprehensive Portfolio. (Example: you need a colonoscopy, and we remind you. You go get it, and we’ll go get a copy and add the information… and flag the need to follow-up on the polyp sent to pathology, to be sure it’s benign. OR our doctor could order the test; WellMax sets it all up, gives you the prep, helps you get through it, and explains the results. The latter requires a professional fee, but WellMax will provide diagnosis codes so you may get reimbursed by insurance both for the procedure and the WellMax services).
• After obtaining your written consent, WellMax will request information other doctors may have for your Portfolio, but cannot guarantee every doctor or medical facility will deliver it. After several telephone calls and a certified letter, test results not obtained will be considered not complete/ pending on your database.
• Specific laws apply to Psychological medical records. There are special limits on collection and disclosure of these records.
• Medical professional services are provided outside this program and must be billed separately.