For Providers
Referring a patient
Our referral staff will review the referral documents and contact the parent/guardian to schedule the patient. After two attempts to reach the parent/guardian by phone, the referral staff will file the referral away and notify the referring provider the patient could not be scheduled. The parent/guardian will then need to call the office to schedule the patient.
It is our policy to recommend an Adult Endocrinologist if we receive a referral of a patient who has already turned 18 years old.
We accept the following health insurances:
- Mississippi Medicaid
- Magnolia Medicaid
- Molina Medicaid
- TrueCare Medicaid
- Mississippi CHIPS
- Magnolia Ambetter
- Magnolia Marketplace
- Molina Marketplace
- United Healthcare
- UMR/Healthlink
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Aetna
- Cigna
- Tricare East
Early Puberty Treatment
True early puberty is often caused by either the pituitary gland or hypothalamus triggering too soon. Treatment consists of intramuscular injections of a long-acting form of a gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist either every 3 months or every 6 months. The choice between the two medication brands is often based on the insurance preferred drug list.
Our patients often travel more than an hour from home to visit our clinic. Therefore, we often suggest patients get their injection treatments at their primary care providers clinic. Click the links below for Provider Info including instructions on preparing and administering the injection.
Online Resources
https://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts
Accurately measuring and tracking the growth of infants, children, and teens is a cornerstone of primary care medicine. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends using the WHO Growth Charts to track weight, length, and head circumference in infants and children until 24 months old. For children and teens 2 to 20 years old, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends using the CDC Growth Charts to track weight, height, and BMI. These growth charts can be found in downloadable pdf format from the CDC website.
The standard of care in accurately weighing infants and children less than 2 years old is to weigh them using an infant scale. The standard of care in accurately measuring infants and children less than 2 years old is to measure them laying on their back using an infantometer. The standard of care in weighing and measuring children and teens older than 2 years old is to weigh in kilograms and measure a standing height in centimeters. The standard of care in measuring children of all ages for well-child visits is to do so without their shoes on, every time.
The weight, length, and head circumference of infants and children born premature (before 37 weeks gestation) should be plotted by using their corrected age rather than their chronological age.
The US Department of Agriculture launched the MyPlate nutrition guidelines in 2011. This website has lots of resources for health professionals including printable materials to help teach healthy eating habits to your patients. There is also an app!
The only parenting website backed by 67,000 pediatricians- committed to the physical, mental, and emotional health of all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. The site is created and powered by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The Red Book is published by the American Academy of Pediatrics with a new edition coming out every 3 years. It is a trusted source for guidance on pediatric infectious disease prevention, management, and control. You can purchase a paperback copy or a subscription to Red Book Online. This website also has links to articles for free.
PubMed is a free database from the U.S. National Library of Medicine. It is a search tool for millions of journal articles and is supported by the National Institutes of Health. While PubMed primarily provides citations and abstracts, it often links to the full-text articles, which are sometimes free. If a provider has hospital privileges or an academic affiliation, the medical librarian can often get the full article at no charge.
The role of genetics has become key to understanding our health. The Online Mendelian Inheritance of Man (OMIM) is a free, comprehensive, compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes. The database is authored and edited by Dr. Ada Hamosh, a Pediatric Geneticist at Johns Hopkins University. You can search based on gene name, disease name, or simply by entering the clinical characteristics of the patient you suspect has a genetic condition. Just a little tip…enter as many clinical characteristics as possible and be as specific as possible to get the best search results.