PEDIATRIC HEALTH ASSOCIATES

PLEASE NOTE: New Co-Pay Policy at PHA:  Many of our patients have a co-payment connected with their insurance agreements. Our contractual obligation with your insurance carrier requires us to collect your co-payment at the time of service. Effective April 15, 2017 any unpaid co-pays will be charged a service fee of $15.  Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. ************************************************** From the desk of Jihad Shoshara, M.D. Dr. Shoshara helping refugees in Jordan last year. I hope that this finds you well.  I’m writing because I am once again leading a mission to provide needed medical care to Syrian refugees in Jordan through the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS).  On April 8, I and a team of 50 medical providers, nurses, and translators will spend a week treating thousands of refugees in need.  As you know, the Syrian civil war is in its seventh year, with no end in sight.  The refugees for whom we will care h...

            From the desks of Nurse Practitioners                    Katie Faragher and Josie Dawe: PLEASE NOTE:   Parents are required to request the 504 evaluation....your pediatrician or nurse practitioner cannot request it from the school.   Katie Faragher, CPNP Section 504 is a federal law that protects students with disabilities from being discriminated against at school. The law requires the school to provide children with disabilities the same opportunities as students without disabilities. This is done by providing reasonable accommodations and modifications. Disabilities covered under Section 504 include physical and/or mental impairments that substantially limits a major life activity such as walking, learning, hearing, seeing, concentrating, thinking, etc.  Not all children with disabilities qualify for a 504 plan. The disability must interfere with the child’s ability to learn or ...