Notice to Patients

• Services provided in West Boca Medical Center will be provided by the hospital, as well as by other health care providers who may separately bill the patient. These other health care providers may or may not participate with the same health insurers or health maintenance organizations as West Boca Medical Center. Patients should contact the other health care practitioners who are anticipated to provide services to them in the hospital directly regarding a personalized estimate, billing practices, and to determine the health insurers and health maintenance organizations that the health care practitioner participates with as a network provider or preferred provider. The names, mailing addresses, and telephone numbers of the health care practitioners and medical practice groups with which West Boca Medical Center contracts to provide services in the facility are listed here.
  
  

  Anesthesia

  American Anesthesiology of Florida Inc.
  1500 Concord Terrace
  Sunrise, FL 33323
  954-384-0175
  
  Emergency Department Coverage

  Paragon Contracting Services
  14050 NW 14th Street
  #190
  Sunrise, FL 33323
  954-475-1300
  
  Hospitalists

  Florida Hospital Medicine Services dba Flacs
  7111 Fairway Drive
  Suite 402
  Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418
  561-588-4844
  
  Pediatrics
  
  Pediatric Inpatient Hospitalists
  Kidz Medical Services, Inc.
  5955 Ponce de Leon Boulevard
  Coral Gables, FL 33146
  305-661-1515
  
  Pediatric Emergency Department Coverage
  Emergency Pediatric Services, PA (A Kidz Medical Services Group)
  5955 Ponce de Leon Boulevard
  Coral Gables, FL 33146
  305-661-1515
  
  Hearing Screening
  Audiology Associates of South Florida, Inc.
  5411 N University Drive, Suite 102
  Coral Springs, FL 33067
  954-752-1559
  
  Kidz Medical Services, Inc. dba First Sounds
  5955 Ponce de Leon Boulevard
  Coral Gables, FL 33146
  305-661-1515
  
  Neonatology Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
  
  KIDZ Medical Services, Inc. dba Critical Care Newborn Services
  5955 Ponce De Leon Blvd
  Coral Gables, Florida 33146
  (305) 661-1515
  
  Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP)

  ROP Physicians of South Florida, LLC
  220 SW 84th Avenue, Suite 204
  Plantation, FL 33324
  No Phone Number in eCATS
  
  Florida Eye Microsurgical Institute, Inc.
  1717 W Woolbright Road
  Boynton Beach, FL 33426
  561-737-5500
  
  Radiology

  Sheridan Radiology Associates
  7700 W. Sunrise Blvd
  Plantation, FL 33322
  800-437-2672
  
  Pathology
  
  Albert Cohen, MD, PA
  960 Seasage Drive
  Delray Beach, FL 33483
  561-495-3185
  

• Patients have the right to request a personalized estimate of charges from West Boca Medical Center and other health care providers. To request an estimate of the hospital’s charges, please contact our Patient Access Department at 561-488-8230. To request an estimate of another health care provider’s charges you should contact that health care provider’s office directly.

• Financial Assistance Policy. If you don’t have insurance coverage, West Boca Medical Center will provide you with financial counseling, including assistance applying for state and federal health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, and for available coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Uninsured patients who do not qualify for any state or federal health care program, and who qualify as financially indigent in accordance with Tenet’s Financial Assistance for Uninsured Patients policy, will receive a Charity Care Discount. The statement made above is to inform you of the facility’s “Financial Assistance For Uninsured Patients” policy that includes Charity Care Discount application, documentation, and collection procedures. View the policy.
  
  
• Uninsured patients who do not qualify for any state or federal health care program, and who do not qualify for a charity care discount may be eligible for financial assistance either under Tenet’s Compact with Uninsured Patients. View the policy, or Tenet’s Cash Pay Rate Policy.
  
  
• West Boca Medical Center will offer uninsured patients payment plans to assist in settling past due outstanding hospital bills. In addition, West Boca Medical Center will not charge interest under such extended payment plans.
  
  
• West Boca Medical Center will not, in dealing with patients who qualify for charity care, place or foreclose liens on primary residences as a means of collecting unpaid hospital bills. West Boca Medical Center will not use body attachment to require that uninsured patients or a responsible party appear in court.


• The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (Agency) launched Florida Health Price Finder, a health care transparency tool for customers to find data on health care costs for national, state, and county prices. The state of Florida’s service bundle information is a non-personalized estimate of costs that may be incurred by the patient for anticipated services and that actual costs will be based on services actually provided to the patient. Patients have a right to request a personalized estimate from the hospital. The website allows consumers and caregivers to find the data on health care costs as well as to look up the average amounts paid by Florida insurance plans for a specific service. We want to give you the information you need to make healthcare decisions, including costs of services by providing consumers and caregivers to have a better estimate of their total out-of-pocket expenses.


• The website lists the services as “care bundles”.  A care bundle includes the steps and procedures that are part of a typical treatment plan for that specific care bundle.  For example, the care bundle for Knee Replacement includes an office visit with a specialist, surgery, outpatient physical therapy/rehabilitation and follow-up visits.  
• Note that the service bundle information is a non-personalized estimate of costs that may be incurred by the patient for anticipated services and that actual costs will be based on services actually provided to the patient.


• Since 2007, Floridians have been able to use FloridaHealthFinder.gov to look up undiscounted hospital charges, however, this is rarely the amount that individuals or insurance companies are expected to pay. Now, with this new tool, and in conjunction with working with their respective insurance plans, Floridians have the opportunity to get a much better estimate of out-of-pocket costs for specific services.