Frequently Asked Questions

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We offer a wide range of health consulting services, including personalized health assessments and laboratory addressing root causes of disease, convenient telehealth & traditional office visits, and personalized-restorative health plans and goals.

Functional medicine has the aim of looking at the function of your BIG systems (Brain-Immune-Gut), to find out how best to support your HEALTH and healing. These personalized testing and treatments do not serve to label or diagnosis a dis-ease, but rather find out how best to support healing based on your individual results. 

Integrative medicine is taking both sides: traditional medicine and alternative medicine, and finding a path this best fits for you. It is not all or none with Dr. Anita. If your body is so inflamed she does use medicine on occasion, however, her goal is to use supplements, nutraceuticals, and lifestyle changes to help heal your body.

You can schedule a consultation with us by scheduling a heal.me introduction call on our home page of our website or by giving us a call at (419)-615-7157.

We do not accept or process commercial insurance for our visits. Rather insurance companies do not accept us because we are considered out of network because we practice functional medicine. However, we do supply you with a SUPER BILL to allow you to attempt reimbursement from your commercial insurance. 

Please note: Medicare and Medicaid patients will not be able to attempt to submit a superbill for reimbursement due to their guidelines.

Although Anita is primary care certified, she does not offer primary care services. She would prefer you kept your primary care provider and all your specialist to help you in your healing journey. It is her goal to restore your body to its highest level of functioning and release you, to go out and be amazing. She does not follow annual wellness markers.

The Stechschulte Method is a proven program that focuses on the BIG systems: Brain-Immune-Gut. Most everyone will start with symptoms in one or even all of these areas. Through a comprehensive assessment she helps restore function in each of these areas. All chronic disease begins as a sign of inflammation. Fix the inflammation and you can help your body heal. Balancing each system is key to achieving real healing.

Yes, Dr. Anita can prescribe medication, if needed and can order lab work as well. Once you are a patient, she can use your most recent bloodwork results and order additional testing to further
investigate your symptoms.

UDemand health offers all levels of healing plans to help people budget and sustain a healing journey, especially when the journey gets hard. A healing plan is a commitment to your healing
journey and offers discounts on protocols, health coaching, and out of pocket labs.

ACHIEVE HEALTH: 3 month journey

RESTORE HEALTH: 12 month journey

MAINTAIN HEALTH: 12 month post healing plan

Blood work is typically covered by insurance. However, because Dr. Anita does testing beyond the ‘traditional’ testing, she attempts to code for insurance coverage but can not guarantee that they will cover the lab. If there is anything ever too expensive, we have a direct pay access to labs at a much discounted price for healing plan members. Regarding our non-traditional testing or functional testing, these typically are not covered by insurance. Although functional tests are backed up by the latest research, the resting is not seen as ‘diagnostic testing’ so they are not covered by insurance. 

We have lots of people reach out to us for support who do not live in OHIO. However, due to license restrictions, Dr. Anita cannot practice across state lines at this time. She is not able to diagnosis, treat, order blood work, or medications across state lines. However, she does have a special health coaching program for those outside of Ohio which includes intense health coaching and access to personalize functional testing. During these sessions, Dr. Anita guides you through your functional testing and supports you with her supplemental protocols along with education on lifestyle changes to support healing. Most people exploring into a specific system do well with intense health coaching because finding the root cause does not mean you need a label or diagnosis. .