Core Medical Center

About Core Medical Center

What is Core Medical Center?

Core Medical Center is a multidisciplinary medical clinic in Blue Springs, MO, open since 2009. Its main work is occupational health, including federal OWCP care, workers' compensation, and personal-injury and auto-accident treatment. Chiropractic, pain control, physical therapy and rehabilitation sit alongside it. Medical weight management is one service within its rehabilitation center, so this is not a weight loss clinic in the usual sense.

The practice has offices in Blue Springs and Overland Park, KS, and an office in Columbia, MO that is not yet open. Its Google listing shows a 4.9 rating from 322 reviews. Kristina Mitchell, DNP, FNP-C, prescribes for and leads the weight program.

The weight program is called Medical Weight Management (Non-Medicated). In its own words: "Non-medicated weight management is a medically directed program that uses nutrition, movement, sleep and body-composition coaching instead of weight-loss drugs or surgery." The program starts with an assessment that includes a body-composition reading, then moves to a nutrition plan, movement coaching, and periodic re-checks with adjustments. Same-week appointments are typically available. You can book by calling (816) 229-1941.

This listing is for its Columbia office at 305 N Keene Street #105, Suite B.

What does it cost?

It does not publish prices. There is no monthly fee, program price or consultation fee listed. The program says you will know what it costs for your situation at your first visit, before you commit. Because the program uses no weight-loss drugs, no medication cost is built in, but it does not say what coaching, body-composition checks or lab work cost.

The front desk checks what insurance covers for the medical visits involved. It does not say whether the weight program itself is billed to insurance or paid in cash.

What should you ask before you book?

Ask who signs any prescription and whether the weight program ever includes one. The program does not include GLP-1 drugs, but confirm that before you start. Ask for the total monthly cost, and whether it covers coaching, body-composition scans, follow-up visits and labs. Ask whether the program is billed to insurance or paid in cash. Ask whether any visits can be done by telehealth, since that is not stated. Finally, ask how cancellation works, whether there is a contract or minimum term, and whether a fee applies if you stop early.

Who is it a good fit for?

This is a good fit if you want a medically directed weight program with no weight-loss drugs or surgery, can get to the Blue Springs or Overland Park office, and want weight care under the same roof as physical therapy, pain care or injury treatment. It is a weaker fit if you want a prescription weight-loss drug, since this program does not include one, or if you need telehealth, which is not confirmed.

Sources: coremedcenter.com, coremedcenter.com/rehabilitation-center/medical-weight-management, coremedcenter.com/compare/non-medicated-weight-loss-vs-glp1-medications

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