Photo ID and your insurance card. Our team verifies benefits before the visit where they can, but the card settles any question at the desk.
A list of the medications you take, including the ones you would not think to mention — over-the-counter painkillers, supplements, anything for sleep. Doses if you know them. A photograph of the boxes is fine.
Any imaging you already have, and the report that came with it, which often matters more than the pictures. A disc, a link to a portal, or the name of the place that did it are all workable.
A note of what you have already tried — what helped, what did not, and for how long. This is the single most useful thing you can bring, and it is the one people most often leave behind.
A referral, only if your own plan requires one. We do not, but some plans do, and our team will tell you when they verify your benefits.
Mountain View Pain Center is contracted with Medicare and with most major commercial plans, and we also work with personal-injury liens and workers’ compensation.
In Arizona, AHCCCS is accepted for Pain Management only — not for Chiropractic, Physical Therapy or Acupuncture. If you are covered by AHCCCS and the plan turns out to involve one of those three, our team will tell you what that means before anything is scheduled rather than afterwards.
If you are on a Medicare Advantage plan, the thing to check is the network from both ends: that we are in it, and that the clinic you intend to visit is in it, because those are not always the same answer. Our team can check before your first visit, and what to check about a Medicare Advantage plan before you switch covers the rest.
Bring the records, not just the memory of them. The useful set is the imaging and its report, the last clinic note, and the name and number of whoever was prescribing — with those three, a plan can usually be picked up rather than restarted.
If you are here for the season, pain management for winter visitors covers how coverage travels and how to get your history here before the first appointment.
It is a common instinct and it usually wastes money. Imaging is ordered when it would change the plan, and the examination comes first — a scan is read next to it rather than instead of it. Age-related change shows up on scans in plenty of people who have no symptoms at all, which is why a film on its own is evidence rather than a verdict.
Wear or bring something you can move in. Most of a first appointment is watching how the painful thing actually moves.
No. Pain Management at Mountain View Pain Center does not require a referral, and neither do Chiropractic, Physical Therapy or Acupuncture. If your own plan requires one, our team will tell you when they verify your benefits.
No. In Arizona, AHCCCS is accepted for Pain Management only — not for Chiropractic, Physical Therapy or Acupuncture. Our team will tell you what that means for your plan before anything is scheduled.
Come anyway. The name of the place that did the scan is usually enough for us to request it, and the examination does not wait on it.
The imaging and its report, the most recent clinic note, and the name and number of whoever was prescribing. With those, a course of treatment can usually be continued rather than started again.
Request an appointment online at any hour and our team will text you back to get you scheduled. Our goal is to see you within the same week, and the Arizona number for every Arizona clinic is (602) 325-2024.
Day or night, seven days a week — and we’ll text you back to get you scheduled. No referral is needed, and our goal is to see you within the same week. Arizona scheduling runs through one number for every Arizona clinic: (602) 325-2024.
