Bossier Family Medicine

About Bossier Family Medicine

What is Bossier Family Medicine?

Bossier Family Medicine is a primary care practice, and family medicine is its main work. It offers annual physicals, sick visits, lab testing, vaccines, skin biopsies, and care for conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, asthma, and depression and anxiety. It has offices in Bossier City, Louisiana, in North Bossier and South Bossier, and it names Bossier City and the Shreveport area as the places it serves. It has provided care since 2000 and has a 4.8 Google rating from 1073 reviews.

Weight loss is one of its services, and it runs a medical weight-loss program. Its three physicians are Patrick Deere, M.D., MD, William Maranto, M.D., MD and Robert Saucier, M.D., MD. Four nurse practitioners and a physician assistant also prescribe. In its own words: "Our approach to weight loss includes nutritional planning, fitness education, and medication." The program starts with a complete assessment at the first visit and includes weekly weigh-ins. It also offers integrative telemedicine appointments.

What does it cost?

It does not publish a price for its weight-loss program, a monthly fee, or a weight-loss medication, and it does not say whether medication is included in any price. The $125 new patient visit is its general new patient fee, and an established patient visit is $100. It does not publish a separate weight-loss consultation fee.

It accepts most commercial health plans and lists Medicare and Medicaid plans among the others it takes. Its uninsured price list covers office visits, procedures, injections priced per unit, and lab tests. A general health panel is $75 and a lipid panel is $30. No weight-loss drug appears on that list. It does not publish membership terms, financing options, or a cancellation policy.

What should you ask before you book?

Ask who writes the weight-loss prescription. The clinic does not name a weight-loss prescriber, so ask which of its prescribers handles the program. Ask which medication it uses and whether it is brand-name or compounded, since it does not name one.

Ask whether the monthly cost includes the medication or whether the drug is billed on top. Ask what follow-up visits cost, since the program includes weekly weigh-ins, and whether those visits and any lab work are billed separately. Ask how cancellation works and what membership terms apply.

Ask whether your insurance covers the weight-loss visits, because the clinic does not say. If you live outside Louisiana, ask which states its telemedicine covers, because it does not say that either.

Who is it a good fit for?

This is a good fit if you want a family medicine practice that also runs a medical weight-loss program, and you are willing to call first to confirm the price, the medication, and who prescribes it. If you need a published monthly price or written membership terms before you commit, it is worth calling (318) 747-8100 before you book anything.

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