We are focused on health and wellness as part of your chronic kidney disease and hypertension management. Right nutrition, exercise, lifestyle changes, stress management all play a role in control of chronic medical illnesses.
With one on one personalized consultation and care, and discussing your medical conditions and lifestyle in detail, right medications, we can come up with a plan to help control chronic medical conditions that affect your kidney health. We will work with your primary care and specialist team to come up with the most optimal management of your conditions.
Early referral to a kidney doctor (nephrologist) can prevent progression of chronic kidney disease.
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Annual physical exam and laboratory tests
Wellness medicine counseling and follow up
Chronic medical condition evaluation and management
Risk factor modification such as smoking and alcohol cessation counseling
Hypertension management
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Screening for chronic kidney disease is through laboratory tests called basic metabolic panel or comprehensive metabolic panel, and urine tests such as urine analysis or urine protein, urine microalbumin, urine creatinine.
Referral to kidney doctor (nephrologist) us based on these findings. Newport beach kidney doctor
Lab tests to evaluate kidney disease, liver function, anemia, thyroid, cholesterol, urine analysis, urine protein, urine creatinine.
Based on these tests, further recommendations to treatment and management plan will be made by your kidney doctor (nephrologist).
Conditions treated: Hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes mellitus, congestive heart failure, hypothyroidism, and other chronic medical conditions.
Kidney doctor (nephrologist) are specialists in management of chronic kidney disease, dialysis, hypertension and kidney transplantation.
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To deliver most optimal health care results, it is best to work with a team of primary care, specialists and consultants who specialize in various fields of medicine. Referrals will be made as necessary for further management to ensure the best of care for our patients.
Kidney doctors (nephrologists) work with your primary care/internal medicine/family medicine/referral physician to work on a comprehensive plan to help manage your chronic kidney disease, hypertension, diabetes, congestive heart failure and other medical conditions that may impact your kidney health.
We accept Medicare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Anthem PPO, United health care PPO and contracted with most PPO plans. Please check with your plan to make sure Dr. Katneni is a contracted provider with your plan.
If you have HMO insurance, please make sure you have prior authorization before your appointment.
Most of our appointments are made within 1 week of your referral. However, we will make every attempt to ensure that you get seen sooner based on your condition. It would be most helpful for us to get your medical records from your referring provider so we can make an appointment based on the severity of your condition.
Yes. We do offer telehealth services.
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