General Practitioners

• Pediatric Care
• Emergency Care
  When you get emergency care or get treated by an out-of-network provider at an in-network hospital or ambulatory surgical center, you are protected from surprise billing or balance billing.

Psychiatrists

• Mental Health
  If you have an emergency medical condition, mental health, or substance use disorder condition and get emergency services from an out-of-network provider or facility, the most the provider or facility may bill you is your plan’s in-network cost-sharing amount (such as copayments and coinsurance). You can’t be balance billed for these emergency services. This includes care you receive in a hospital and in facilities that provide crisis services to people experiencing a mental health or substance use disorder emergency. You can’t be balance billed for these emergency services, including services you may get after you’re in stable condition.

Radiologist

• Ultrasound
  Ultrasound (sonography) utilizes sound waves to produce images of different body parts. Ultrasound exams produce no radiation to patients and are therefore preferred as the initial tests when possible, especially in young patients and children.
• MRI
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• Radiology
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• X-Rays
• Nuclear Medicine
  Nuclear medicine imaging uses small amounts of radioactive material, a special camera and a computer to create images of the inside of your body. It provides unique information that often cannot be obtained using other imaging procedures to help diagnose many types of cancers, heart disease, gastrointestinal, endocrine, neurological disorders and other health conditions. Because nuclear medicine procedures are able to pinpoint molecular activity within the body, they may detect disease in its earliest stages when it is most easily treated. Nuclear medicine studies are often dependent on active processes in the body rather than anatomic appearance.
• Mammography
  Mammography is a specific type of breast imaging that uses low-dose x-rays to detect cancer early—before women experience symptoms—when it is most treatable. Mammography plays a central part in the early detection of breast cancers because it can show changes in the breast up to two years before you or your physician can feel them. The American Medical Association (AMA) and the American College of Radiology (ACR) recommend annual mammograms for women over 40. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) adds that women who have a personal or family history of breast cancer should talk to their doctor about when they should begin screening.
• Computed Tomography
  Computed tomography, also known as CT or a CAT scan, is a diagnostic test that utilizes x-ray beams to produce images of inside the body. Unlike traditional x-rays, CT images provide information of soft tissues inside the body and when combined with intravenous contrast also allow non-invasive evaluation of blood vessels. CT scans are fast, painless, non-invasive, and accurate.
• Interventional Radiology
  Skagit Radiology, Inc, PS is a partnership of radiology physicians dedicated to providing excellence in diagnostic imaging and interventional radiology since 1972. We are focused on patient-centered care delivered with service, quality, and compassion.

Surgeons

• Orthopedic Surgery
  In general, metal objects used in orthopedic surgery pose no risk during MRI. However, a recently placed artificial joint may require the use of another imaging procedure. If there is any question of their presence, an x-ray may be taken to detect and identify any metal objects.

Dermatologists

• Lesions
  Once a lesion is found that cannot be ruled benign, a breast biopsy is required to obtain samples for analysis by pathologists to determine whether it is a form of cancer. Because most of these lesions are small at the time of detection, imaging guidance is necessary to ensure proper sampling. Biopsies may be performed under ultrasound guidance, x-ray guidance (stereotactic biopsy), or MRI guidance.