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Welcome back to Urgent Care Unscripted.

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I'm Barbara Renault's
director of operations and business

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development for AFC
Urgent Care in West Haven.

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And this is Mohammad seven and the
franchisee and owner of the is Haven. And

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today
we are here to talk about a very common

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topic physical or almost physical.

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The question is what is physical?

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What happens at and on the physical.

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What kind of have a little physical set
that doesn't really have to be at home?

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And which of the physical

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that do we really perform
at the urgent care in this table?

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That's right.

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And I think most importantly,
what is covered by insurance and

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let's clear that up.

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I think there's some confusion
when it comes to physicals in general.

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Yeah.

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So let's first define
what is the physical.

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So it's that simple as it may sound.

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It's it's it's a little, 
a routine checkup where you come in

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and, and the provider performs
some test on you provided patient vitals,

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takes your blood pressure, sugar.

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And based upon your, conditions,

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performs good, perform other tests,
and there you go.

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That's the, Hold that.

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Regular physical.

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But then there are different
kinds of physical. That body rolling know.

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Exactly.

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So not all physicals are created equal.

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There are many different types
of physicals.

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We can talk about
the most common physical,

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which is your walnut
or your annual physical.

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And your physical is just a complete
wellness checkup.

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And that covers everything from vitals
and mental health checkups.

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And it usually is covered by insurance,

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although that's not always the case
when it comes to an urgent care.

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So they are always covered up
at a primary care office.

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But some insurances do not cover them
at an urgent care.

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So definitely call
your local urgent care or us

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and we can answer that for you
depending on your insurance.

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The second type of physical
are your annual wellness visits.

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Those are from Medicare patients and
they are covered under Medicare Part B.

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Again, that is covered by insurance
is not always covered at an urgent care.

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The third time
type of physical is your dot physical.

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So those are for your CDL drivers.

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So if you're a CDL drivers driver I'm sure
you're very familiar with this physical.

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It is a typically every two year physical.

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But it can be
that depending on your medical history,

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you might be required to come in

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every three months, every six months,
every one year.

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It's really going to be dependent
on a couple of things, like your blood

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pressure,
your sugar or glucose, and so on.

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Video stands for,

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yes, commercial driver's license.

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Thank you. Mohammed.

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The next physical is school physicals.

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So those are typically yearly
that the school requires.

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And it's to make sure
that all of your vaccines are up to date.

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We do have them at the urging care
and they are not covered

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by your insurance,
typically not covered by your insurance.

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Mostly
not covered by commercial insurances.

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So those are your basic health checkups.

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You can if you are coming in
for your annual physical

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and you know that you need a school
physical form filled out,

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that usually can be done
on the same visit as well.

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So just check with your provider again
on that.

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The next is your sports physical.

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So if your kid or you is joining a sports
team, you might need a physical done

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for that to make sure that you are up
to par in order to join the team

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and make sure that you're not going
to get any of your teammates, sick.

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Your next one is your pre-op physical.

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So pre-op physicals
really clear pre operational.

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So if you're getting an operation
most likely your surgeon

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is going to require that you get
a clearance from your provider.

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Typically you can come to an urgent care
or your primary care doctor.

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And we'll be able to clear you
for your physical.

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Those usually involve blood work as well,
so they are not something

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that we can do the same day.

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So you come in, you get we get blood
or John, you get sent to the lab.

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The lab

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gives it back to us with your results,
and then we clear you for your physical.

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And those are usually covered by
insurance, because they are unnecessary.

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So I think we covered
all of the physicals.

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And, those are the difference
between the, you know, health

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or health necessary physicals versus
your administrative physicals.

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Oh, and I forgot to mention
your immigration physicals.

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So immigration
physicals are for immigration patients

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that are applying for immigration.

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Immigration process, whether that
citizenship or visa or your green card.

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And those are also not covered
by insurance.

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They are administrative physicals.

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They do require vaccines
and they also require bloodwork.

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And as you have heard from Bonagura,
some of these physicals

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are really not annual.

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Some of them are required by work.

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So you do it
one time and the work is required,

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for, surgery.

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You do it on time.

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But then as healthcare becomes the journey
and you want to take care of your health

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and you want to be in control,
that's where the good comes in.

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And you have to be proactive about it
and continue to add on to the bill

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and come and visit us and those businesses
which have more physical.

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You are trying to perform a few things

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that you have to keep in mind
as you walk in through the outdoor bodies.

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You have to have your,

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insurance card.

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You didn't have to have your,

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photo I.D., you have to have
your medications that you're taking

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and also share

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with the provider and in medical history
that you want them to be aware of.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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And, lucky for you, we can do all those

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physicals at our urgent care
in West Haven.

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Again, like Muhammad said,
make sure you bring the correct forms.

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A lot of those require paperwork,
so make sure you're bringing

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those forms with you.

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Especially if it's a work physical
or a sports physical or school physical.

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They have very specific forms
that they want you to fill out.

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So quick breakdown.

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Annual physicals are covered by insurance.

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Medicare, annual physicals
are also covered by insurance once a year.

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Those two are once a year.

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Dot physical school physicals, sports
physicals, integration physicals,

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work physicals, pre-employment physicals.

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They're not covered by insurance,
and pre-op physicals are also,

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at the end of the day,
our goal is to make it easy for you.

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Our goal is to get for, as possible.

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And so the whole overall process
goes, smooth.

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And you come in, you complete the process,

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and with a peace of mind
and the people that you.

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Absolutely.

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And we have really good pricing for you.

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So for those that, for those physicals
that are not covered by our insurance,

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we have, self-pay pricing
that is extremely reasonable.

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So, and usually a couple times a year,

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we might have some,
you know, promotions going on.

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So definitely call us if you're interested

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or if you need one of those physicals,
will let you know what we can offer you.

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So just to summarize, summarize
really quick know which type of physical

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that you need.

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Book ahead online,
bring your ID and your insurance card.

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And then always
check your insurance coverage.

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If you're not sure, give us a call.

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We, wanted to cover everything as it

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pertains to physicals
and the different kinds of physicals.

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We thank you
for listening to our, podcast.

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And we welcome you to join, Urgent Care
Unscripted again for the next episode.

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Until then, this is Mohammed,
and this is Barber and Halter.

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We are located at 354
Sawmill Road in West Haven.

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Come see us when you need us. Thank you.