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Dealing with health insurance and other benefits can be very confusing. If you have questions, please call your insurance representative to better understand how your policy works and what it covers.
Please bring your child's insurance identification
card with you to UCSF Children's Hospital. Your insurance may
require prior authorization for your child to be seen by a UCSF
doctor. If so, please have your child's primary care doctor or
insurance company fax your authorization to the UCSF doctor's office
and bring a copy to the appointment to ensure you aren't billed for medical services
covered by your insurance. You may be called for insurance
or authorization information before your appointment.
Your insurance may require an office co-payment.
If so, you will be asked to make your co-payment in full at your visit.
If your visit is not covered by a health plan or insurance, you will be asked to
pay for your visit on arrival. For your convenience, we accept cash, checks and credit cards.
UCSF Children's Hospital contracts with many major
health insurance companies. A list
of health insurance companies that provide coverage for
our services is available below.
Our hospitals and doctors do not contract with or participate
in any health insurance discount card programs. They do, however, accept
payments made through health savings account programs. We also can make financial
arrangements for your coverage with other health insurance
companies, if the companies are willing to do so. Please
ask your insurance company or your UCSF doctor to contact
our Health Plan Strategy and Contracting office.
Health Plan Strategy and Contracting
| Phone | (415) 353-4536 |
| Fax | (415) 353-4397 |
For background information, a glossary
of health insurance terms and an explanation
of private and public health coverage are available.
If you need help finding a doctor, please contact our Physician Referral Service. We can provide information about the more than 900 doctors at UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Children's Hospital.
Physician Referral Service
We also have an online directory of our doctors. Our doctors are members of the UCSF Medical Group and are full-time faculty members of the University of California, San Francisco.
The following is a list of the companies that currently have contracts with us.
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