Portsmouth Regional Hospital

About Portsmouth Regional Hospital

What is Portsmouth Regional Hospital?

Portsmouth Regional Hospital is a 240-bed, acute care hospital in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and part of HCA Healthcare. It serves residents and visitors of the Seacoast Region in New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts, and it has been providing care for over 100 years. Its main business is hospital care, from cardiology and orthopedics to women's care. Medical weight loss is one of its services, and it has a 4.5 rating from 8 Google reviews.

Its medical weight loss program is nonsurgical and medically supervised. Nurse practitioners do the first evaluation and decide whether you are medically cleared. After that, you work on a personalized plan. Physical therapists provide an exercise plan, and registered dietitians build a nutrition plan. The program can be your main weight loss approach or part of a surgical plan. It uses medications, but it does not say which ones, and it does not name a prescriber for the program. Weight loss surgery is a separate program.

In its own words: "If you are interested in our program, please ask your primary care provider to send us a referral."

What does it cost?

It does not publish prices for medical weight loss. It does not give a consultation fee, does not say whether medication is included in any price, and does not say whether insurance is accepted. It has a Price Transparency page, but no figure is given for this program. Ask for the full cost in writing before your first evaluation.

What should you ask before you book?

Ask who writes the prescription and which medications are used. Ask whether medication is part of the program cost or billed separately. Ask what the initial evaluation, dietitian visits and physical therapy visits cost, one by one. Ask whether you need a referral from your primary care provider before you call, since the program says you do. Ask whether it accepts insurance and whether any visits are available by telehealth, because it does not say. Ask for the hours of the weight management program, which are not listed. Finally, ask whether there is a contract and how you stop if you change your mind.

Who is it a good fit for?

This is a good fit if you already have a primary care provider who can send the referral, and you want medical weight loss run inside a hospital with nurse practitioners doing the first evaluation. If you need a price, the medication names or a named prescriber before you commit, call first, since none of those are published.

Sources: portsmouthhospital.com, portsmouthhospital.com/specialties/weight-management

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