Is your allergy practice ready to meet the growing demand?
Today, less than five percent of the 50 to 60 million U.S. allergy sufferers receive the benefit of immunotherapy. Even the busiest allergy practices report that less than 25 percent of allergic patients will agree to undergo injection immunotherapy. The safety and convenience of sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) truly expands the range of candidates for immunotherapy and thus expands your allergy practice. Sublingual immunotherapy is changing the way allergy is practiced and you have the opportunity to be at the forefront in delivering this treatment option to your patients.
Expand your practice through the science and art of sublingual immunotherapy
Allergychoices can help you incorporate sublingual immunotherapy into your practice - effectively and efficiently - through services that help deliver results to your practice and your patients without increasing your overhead. The end result is having new treatment options for your allergy patients ... and more opportunity for your practice.
Clinical Expertise - The La Crosse Method™
Providing the broad range of allergy patients with treatment options that meet their individual needs is the basis for the La Crosse Method Practice Protocol, developed by the physician partners of Allergy Associates of La Crosse. The protocol brings more than 40 years of clinical experience blending European and U.S. traditions in sublingual immunotherapy treatment with the latest research.
The La Crosse Method put patient safety and comfort first, successfully treating more than 135,000 patients for Multiple Inhalants, Foods and Preseasonal Treatment—a unique strategy for patients with known seasonal allergies such as trees, grasses, ragweed and dust mites.
The exceptional benefits of the protocol are found in treating those who traditionally are not candidates for injection therapy including infants and children, severe asthmatics, the highly sensitive, chronic conditions including sinusitis, food and mold allergies and patients with multiple allergies.
Practice Integration - Developing a workflow that works
How can you make sure the principles of the La Crosse Method are accepted and implemented effectively in your practice? Our staff has unique expertise in helping build a SLIT practice from the ground up and can help you navigate the implementation issues from staff training and education, business and payer issues, operational considerations including testing and workflow, and a range of communications strategies that help insure staff confidence and expertise.
We work as an extension of your practice, bringing expertise in critical areas that shorten your implementation time and help ensure your staff can focus time on important patient issues. We can work with you to develop customized testing and treatment panels based on your region and patient needs. As you begin identifying and treating patients, you have a direct link to clinical staff, physicians and pharmacists whose expertise day in and day out is focused on providing safe, effective and customized solutions for allergy sufferers.
Allergychoices Compounding Pharmacy Services
Allergychoices Compounding Pharmacy Services enables your practice to quickly start treating patients without adding to your overhead. Our licensed and credentialed staff specialize in compounding antigen formulations for a broad spectrum of allergic conditions.We adhere to rigid quality-control standards in accordance with your state's licensure requirements . Each prescription is carefully mixed and logged by batch for your patient's safety, providing us complete recall capabilities to ensure batch integrity.
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Allergenic extracts are provided by FDA-licensed manufacturers. We use 50 percent glycerin as a diluent throughout our process, taking full advantage of glycerin's preservative qualities.
Custom, named-patient treatment sets are prepared according to physician prescription following the La Crosse Method dosing strategies. Prescriptions are formulated by our pharmacist and delivered in a patient-friendly metered dispenser that insures a precise dose. Treatment sets are mailed within one to two business days of your prescription order and mailed directly to your practice or your patients. Pharmacy staff is available to assist with questions and requests.
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Allergychoices Reference Laboratory Services
Prefer a sole-source for your testing and treatment needs? If your practice relies on timely, accurate in vitro testing results to diagnose and treat patients, the Allergychoices CLIA and COLA certified Reference Laboratory can deliver the latest generation of sensitive, accurate allergen specific IgE measurements. We provide results delivered to you within days of receipt of your sample. If you are satisfied with your current provider, we also collaborate closely with other leading allergy specialty laboratories to coordinate appropriate testing and treatment strategies. Our focus is to deliver sublingual immunotherapy to the patients who can benefit the most.
Getting Started: How to integrate SLIT into your practice
We work with you to apply principles from the La Crosse protocol into your practice and help you integrate your testing strategies and workflow. We look at a number of areas and issues, including:
•Selecting patients for testing and treatment
•Optimizing skin and/or in vitro testing strategies including allergen selection
•Dosing formulation
•Complex patient case reviews
•Patient management, compliance and follow-up
•Ongoing clinical and research updates
Strategy for Growth - the Allergychoices Best Practices Approach
The goal of any practice is to provide not only the best care but excellent service and value. We at Allergychoices help you reach these same goals in your sublingual immunotherapy program. The experience and expertise we have in teaching the science of sublingual, the experience of delivering care, consulting on implementation, developing communications, and patient compliace, all allow us to help you become a sublingual immunotherapy center of excellence. The Best Practices program guides you through the critical processes that will establish you as a leader in providing sublingual immunotherapy. You begin with staff education and build to local/regional recognition. Allergychoices helps ensure a successful implementation and long-term growth for your practice - without taking critical time away from patient care.
Implementation, Staff & Patient Education and Patient Recruitment - Helping your staff and patients understand the benefits of sublingual immunotherapy is the first step in the implementation process. We will share a host of educational tools and our expertise to ensure staff confidence in understanding the science and art of sublingual immunotherapy - including the benefits and what patients should expect during their treatment course. We will then help your staff identify and communicate with patients that are most interested and also likely to benefit from SLIT from our varietyof patient recruitment tools.
Compliance and Patient Retention - Once you've enrolled patients in sublingual immunotherapy treatment, keeping track of their progress and adherence is vital to treatment success. Allergychoices offers tools to help you manage patient compliace, including patient education, dosing diaries, monthly reports that identify patient order history and expected reorder dates, and patient reminders to enhance your compliance efforts. Our goal is to insure that over 80 percent of your patients are compliant and receive the long term benefits of SLIT.
Practice Marketing and Promotion - Growing your practice using a thoughtful communication strategy and marketing support with patients, referrers, prospective patients, key influencers and media is critical to your practices success. We'll work with you to help customize a strategy that makes sense for your market and your practice needs.
Invest in your practice with Allergychoices
Allergychoices makes it easy and affordable to benefit from our program without adding to your current overhead. Our pricing model reflects this same goal. We do not charge upfront consulting fees or ask for an ongoing retainer. In fact, we offer our support services as a benefit to practices that use our pharmacy. From there, you can build your sublingual program through our Best Practices Approach. Typically, the only costs you incur are for customized collateral printing, production and mailing programs which are offered ala carte'. For those practices interested in more depth to their sublingual program, we offer marketing, public relations, and consulting services for a modest fee.
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by calling us at 866.793.1680.