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| - The main reason I did not give SCNM one star is because the residents are actually really great people who care about the patients that they are working with. They genuinely listen and spend a great deal of time with you.
Now, the reason I would not give them more than two stars at SCNM is because they seem to lure you in with their "cheaper" prices to be seen by a student. The doctor did not stay in the room with them while they asked me questions, when they went to collaborate over my treatment plan with their supervising doctor, I was often left waiting for 45 minutes or so. I have spent full afternoons here. Some may say that's not a big deal but here is where it gets frustrating. Even though my initial cost was cheaper, I still spent close to $600 in a month here and my issues were not resolved, they seemed to barely etch the surface. They wanted me to follow up with them weekly at $75 a pop and wanted me to do labs that b/c the Doctor did not write the request properly, I had to pay $60 when my insurance would have covered it if it had been ordered properly. I felt that I had to do quite a bit of my own coordinating within their own medical center, I had to tell their lab that the doctor requested that I get a sensitivity test done to which they had no paperwork on and wanted to charge me about $270 for it. I felt that their treatment plan was arbitrary and designed to give the students an opportunity to practice their modalities on me. One part of my suggested treatment plan was to come in bi-weekly for hydrotherapy sessions which would be under my follow up visit price of $75. That is far more expensive than a professional massage. I did not fully understand why I needed hydrotherapy considering I was going for food sensitivities and GI issues. I will give the doctor grace on this but I was prescribed a botanical tincture that had grain alcohol as its base. For someone with a suspected gluten sensitivity (at the time, now confirmed by my labs), I am not sure how wise or thought out this was. So, all in all, my recommendation would be to go to a Naturopath or Integrative medicine doctor (one who is both an MD and ND) who is already well-established in their practice. Yes, it will be expensive upfront (about $300) but I recommend finding someone who will actually guide you through an insurance reimbursement process. The staff at SCNM did not help with this at all and the current doctor I am seeing's staff really encourages trying to get reimbursed by your insurance. If one can put in $300 to see a fully qualified and well-practiced ND, they will then be able to be treated in one visit. They will not need to go to multiple visits in a month with trial-and-error supplements, labs, and modalities. In the time that it took for SCNM to find my food sensitivities and find "medical grounds" for me to have that test done, I would have saved $100's in follow up visit fees. The other thing is- most of the ND's who teach the students at SCNM are practitioners who are trying to build their practice and have no been in the field long enough.
*Another thing that raised a red flag for me was that it took them 2+ visits to finally ask me to get lab work done and it also took them THAT long to have me sign my ROI for my records with other doctors. I found this really suspicious and there was a lack of urgency there. I think labs should be requested on the first visit, so that on the second visit the doctor can compare your past results with your current ones. It shouldn't take 3 visits to acknowledge a basic health panel like the CMP needs to be done.
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