Dr Jeremy Steinberg - Musculoskeletal Specialist Service

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  Dr Jeremy Steinberg

  Musculoskeletal Specialist

Your GP or allied health provider will have referred you for the consultation. A three page form will be sent to you to fill out which has questions about your health and pain problem. Please send it to admin@maruamed.co.nz so that an appointment time can be given. The questionnaire is very important because it allows us to have a better baseline understanding before seeing you and it means that it is less likely we miss something significant.

If you are being referred under ACC, please provide us the original injury claim. You do not need to provide any subsequent claims that may have aggravated the original injury.

If you have previously been seen by a private specialist please send the clinic letter to us beforehand. If it was a public specialist in Auckland or Northland then we can access the letters online with your permission. We can't access public letters outside of these two areas (e.g. we can't access Waikato records).

Clinic appointments last 50-60 minutes for an initial consultation and 20-30 minutes for a follow-up consultation. In some cases a longer 90 minute initial consultation is required. This includes taking a history, performing a thorough physical examination, and forming a plan for either further investigation (such as scans or diagnostic injections) or management.

Musculoskeletal medical evaluation requires a good understanding of what is happening within the musculoskeletal system – that is, the muscles, bones, joints and nervous systems, including how these structures are performing and how they inter-relate. Adequate exposure is important for the doctor to see what is going on in the musculoskeletal system, in order to gain a thorough objective assessment of the problem. For example for low back pain the upper buttocks need to be exposed while lying on your stomach.

A copy of the specialist's report is routinely sent to both your referrer and to yourself. We are available for any queries regarding the report.

You may have ongoing follow-up in our clinic or be discharged back to the care of your GP. In most instances your GP would be able to continue prescribing any new medications, which would be specified in the report to the GP after the consultation. You may also be referred to an allied health provider or another specialist.

General: Please check that you are covered for the problem being referred, whether that is ACC or private insurance. The most common problem we encounter is people not realising or forgetting that their private insurance policy only covers surgery and not consultations or scans.

ACC: The service is ACC registered and accredited. Please note that the pain problem needs to be relevant to the ACC claim. Approved for the following regions: Rodney District, North Shore City, Auckland City, Waitakere City, Manukau City, Papakura District, Franklin District

For ACC the problem has to be directly related to the injury claim. For example if you have a neck injury claim we can only see you for your neck, we cannot for example see you for your low back or pain in multiple different areas.

Southern Cross: Jeremy is a Southern Cross Affiliated Provider for appointments and most procedures. This means we can process your prior approval and invoice for you if you have your membership number and referral letter. 

If your problem is very complex (e.g. a long history of unresolved widespread pain) there is limited availability of longer 90 minute initial appointments. The referrals are triaged to determine if this is needed.

NIB: Jeremy can submit a prior approval request on your behalf for consultations. Please advise us well in advance if you want us to do this for NIB (2 week notice). NIB require applications for any other service such as injections to be submitted by you rather than us (we can provide a quote). Please note that most NIB policies do not cover injections for pain (even steroid/cortisone).

Other insurance: If you have medical insurance with another insurance company we recommend that you contact them to arrange prior approval. Otherwise, and if you are not insured, your account will be required to be paid in full at the time of service.

Platelet rich plasma injections are excluded from ACC and Southern Cross funding.

Please contact the clinic for details of our consultation and procedure charges if required.

Open today 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

Marua Medical Centre: Mondays and Wednesdays for consultations and certain procedures (landmark guided, ultrasound guided, and PRP injections)

SRG Radiology: Thursday mornings for fluoroscopically guided (x-ray guided) procedures.

Off-street parking available

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