Lifestyle medicine is a medical specialty that uses lifestyle interventions as the primary method to treat health problems such as heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. Lifestyle changes involve nutrition, eating patterns, physical fitness and movement, restorative sleep, stress management, and positive social connections.
Occupational medicine focuses on identifying, preventing, and managing health issues related to work demands. This can cause job burnout and ergonomic pain. Occupational health strategies have the common goal of allowing the employee to thrive in one’s job.
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Dysfunctional metabolic health (a measure of how well the body maintains optimal levels of important biomarkers that are closely linked to one’s overall health) can stem from the life-work imbalance. Blending these two specialized areas of medicine allows Health Life Work Medical Care to offer a holistic, integrated approach to address both the demands of life and work through various strategies to achieve functional metabolic health. We believe this precision care model will enhance your overall well-being in a sustainable way.
We do not serve as your Primary Care Physician (PCP) and do not prescribe any medications or provide treatment for any urgent or emergency care issues. Therefore, it is imperative that you continue to see your PCP throughout the course of your treatment with Health Life Work Medical Care. We do encourage that you allow us to collaborate with your PCP for optimal care, provided that you sign a consent form and your PCP is willing to communicate with us.
While we will coach you to achieve desired change as quickly and reliably as possible, the truth is transformation requires being realistic, patient, and consistent, especially when pivoting in the face of health, life, and work challenges. As alluded to in our Practice Pledge, we believe in treating you with respect and professionalism. We have an obligation to serve effective, thoughtful, and supportive care that you deserve in the amount of time a traditional health system cannot provide through health insurance payment. It is for these main reasons that Health Life Work Medical Care does not participate in any health insurance plan.
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One of the main benefits of being a Member is the ongoing and multiple sources of support you receive from the doctor, including monthly virtual visits, unlimited text messaging through the patient portal with response within 24 business hours (provided they are non-urgent matters that don't require an entire virtual visit time slot), as well as weekly progress assessments and check ins.
You do not need to have health insurance to utilize our services. However, we highly recommend you have health insurance to cover services that are not included in your membership, including primary and specialty care services and tests, such as laboratory work and imaging studies.
Following the cost of the initial Comprehensive New Patient Evaluation and the initial upfront fee, which is required prior to initiation of Membership, and the monthly membership fee, there are no other fees for a Membership Plan which includes the following:
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One 30-minute virtual visit per month
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Unlimited text messaging with the Practice through a secure app for non-urgent concerns
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Weekly progress assessments and check ins
If there is an additional charge to a service we offer that is not included in the Membership, we will make sure to let you know ahead of time so you can decide if you would like to proceed. At Health Life Work Medical Care, we are fully committed to pricing transparency.
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A 10% discount on monthly Membership fee is available if you pay for the entire Membership fee upfront.
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Comprehensive Health Life Work Medical Care New Patient Evaluation (required prior to initiation of membership)
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Single Health Life Work Medical Care Visits
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Costs for any diagnostic test or blood work
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Any costs related to any outside physician or any other type of health care practitioner that is not part of Health Life Work Medical Care (for example, physical therapist, personal trainer, nutritionist, cardiologist, etc.)
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Membership Specialty Packages, including Group Visits and Group Cooking Classes
Sustainable lifestyle change takes time. Learning life-changing skills and transforming them into habits on autopilot takes time. Our membership is designed to provide high-touch care to support you throughout your entire health, life, work journey, including repeat testing, adjustments in strategy, and regular accountability check-ins. However, if you feel we are no longer a good fit, you may cancel your membership at any time by providing at least 30 days advance written notice to Dr. Chuang.
For membership that is terminated with a provided written notice of at least 30 days, a refund will be provided for any funds that were not utilized within 30 days after receiving the termination notice. For example, if you paid for a full yearly membership up front and then decided in month 8 that you no longer want to continue, we will refund months 9 through 12, so long as you provided 30 days written notice.
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Scheduled appointments for Comprehensive Evaluations and Single Visits that are not cancelled within 24 hours are nonrefundable.
Paid fees, including deposits for Membership Specialty Packages are nonrefundable.
We ask that you provide us at least 24-hour notice if you need to cancel your appointment and we will be more than happy to reschedule your visit. We do understand that emergencies arise, but if you are not present or are more than 15 minutes late for 3 consecutive appointments, we will request a candid discussion of what may be preventing you from attending your appointments and reevaluate if partnership with Health Life Work Medical Care continues to make sense for you.