Options Wellness

About Options Wellness

What is Options Wellness?

Options Wellness is a women's health and family wellness clinic at 1005 Avalon Avenue in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The phone number is 256-866-3441. The clinic is a partnership of three co-owners and describes itself as women-owned and operated. Its two prescribers are Susan W. Bentley, Women's Health Nurse Practitioner, and Amy Beth Hall, Family Nurse Practitioner. The third co-owner, Whitney Sanders, is a registered nurse and office administrator, and she is not listed as a prescriber.

The clinic mainly serves women, though it welcomes all gender and sexual identities. It offers four services: Hormone Optimization, Weight Management, Anti-Aging and Sexual Wellness, and Women's Health. Its hormone care covers oral, transdermal, sublingual and injectable options, and the medications it names are estrogen, progesterone and testosterone. It does not offer pellets. Weight management is a personalized consultation that includes a nutrition plan, an exercise routine, and a medication or supplement plan "as needed." It does not name a weight loss medication. The clinic serves Florence, Muscle Shoals, Sheffield and Tuscumbia, and its Google rating is 5 from 51 reviews.

Its approach combines lifestyle medicine with a holistic and integrative focus. In its own words: "Clients are to be active in the decision making regarding their own healthcare."

What does it cost?

A new patient visit costs $150, and an established patient visit costs $90. The clinic accepts most major insurances and also takes cash pay fee-for-service. It does not publish prices for weight management or hormone therapy, and it does not say whether medication is included in any price. It also does not mention membership plans, financing or a cancellation policy, so ask about those directly. Before you schedule, ask for the total cost of the first visit, the follow up visits and the medication you would start on.

What should you ask before you book?

Start with the prescriber. Ask whether Susan Bentley or Amy Beth Hall would write your prescription, and whether the same person would follow you over time. Then ask whether any monthly or visit fee includes the medication itself. For hormone medication, ask whether it is a brand name product or a compounded preparation, and which pharmacy fills it.

Ask what follow up visits and lab work cost. The clinic describes reviewing lab results as part of its weight plan, but it does not price them. For weight management, ask which medication, if any, would be part of the plan, since the clinic does not name one. Ask whether follow up visits can happen by video, because telehealth is not mentioned. Ask how to cancel and whether you pay for a missed appointment.

Finally, confirm the address. Some listings for the clinic show 1640 South Wilson Dam Road instead of Avalon Avenue, and the clinic does not publish its hours.

Who is it a good fit for?

This is a good fit if you want hormone care, gynecology or a personalized weight plan from a nurse practitioner in the Shoals area, and you are prepared to pay cash for visits your insurance may not cover. It is not a fit if you need pregnancy care, since the clinic focuses on the non-pregnant female.

Sources: options-wellness.com, options-wellness.com/meet-your-team

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