Stay Up to Date with Vaccines<\/a> webpage.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOn May 11, 2023, the federal government\u2019s Public Health Emergency expired, as did a number of measures designed to provide flexibility earlier in the pandemic response:<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n- Prescriptions:<\/strong> Patients may need to see us in person, rather than in a telehealth visit, for medication management and other simple or primarily-discussion medical visits. Please check with your insurance company to see if telehealth visits will still be covered by your plan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Vaccinations:<\/strong> Commercial insurance may have a co-pay for COVID-19 vaccines.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- COVID-19 testing:<\/strong> Your health plan will cover the cost of a laboratory test if it is ordered by your doctor and you are symptomatic or have been exposed, but not necessarily in other cases.\u00a0 Due to our limited resources including lack of adequate PPE (Personal Protective Equipment), we do not perform testing at our office<\/em>; we preferentially refer you to one of the state designated Test-to-Treat sites.\u00a0At-home tests may no longer be reimbursed by your health plan. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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With the official end of the Public Health Emergency for the COVID-19 Pandemic behind us, we wanted to once again update our policies for keeping you safe. Masking is longer mandatory in our office. For those individuals with a cough or other cold symptoms, we will still require masks that cover the mouth and nose. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[15,7,8,19,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galbraithfamilymedicine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galbraithfamilymedicine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galbraithfamilymedicine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galbraithfamilymedicine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galbraithfamilymedicine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/galbraithfamilymedicine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/galbraithfamilymedicine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galbraithfamilymedicine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galbraithfamilymedicine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galbraithfamilymedicine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}