If you are reading this trying to work out whether your thing is worth an appointment, it probably is. Call and describe it. The front desk can usually tell you in a minute.
Prices below are what a visit costs without insurance. With insurance, most of these are a copay. Either way you will be told the number before anything is booked.
The everyday work of a practice: the annual visit, the thing that has been going on for three weeks, and the conditions that need someone watching them over years.
A full review once a year: blood work, blood pressure, medications, and whatever has changed since last time. Most people leave with one or two things to act on and a clear reason for each.
Forty minutes. Come fasting if you want labs drawn the same morning.
Sore throat, cough that will not clear, a urinary infection, a rash that is spreading. If you are not sure it warrants a visit, call and describe it. The front desk can usually tell you within a minute.
Twenty minutes. Rapid strep and urine testing are done in the building.
Diabetes, high blood pressure, thyroid, cholesterol, asthma. These do not need heroics. They need the same person looking at the same numbers a few times a year and adjusting before anything drifts.
Thirty minutes, usually every three to six months once things are steady.
Skin lesion removal, joint injections, ingrown toenails, abscess drainage, sutures. Done here rather than sent on, which usually means this week instead of next month.
Thirty minutes. You will be told the cost before anything is scheduled.
The yearly visit Medicare covers in full. It is not a physical — it is a review of medications, memory, falls, and what preventive care you are due. Worth doing even when nothing is wrong.
Forty-five minutes. No copay on most Medicare plans.
Newborn through eighteen, with Dr. Lindqvist keeping his own patients from the first week onward. The point is that by school age, your child is not meeting a stranger.
The schedule of checks in the first year, starting within a few days of coming home. Weight, feeding, sleep, and the questions you did not want to ask the hospital.
Thirty minutes. First visit is booked before you leave the hospital if you call ahead.
Growth, development, hearing and vision, and vaccinations if you are due. A chance to raise anything you have been noticing — speech, eating, mood, school.
Thirty minutes, yearly after age three.
Fevers, ear pain, rashes, breathing that sounds wrong. Same-day slots are held every morning specifically for children, and Saturday mornings are open for this.
Twenty minutes. Call before eleven for a same-day slot.
The form the school or league needs, done properly rather than in a queue at a pop-up clinic in August. Bring the form and it goes home signed.
Twenty minutes. Book from June onward to avoid the August rush.
Routine care, contraception, and the beginning of a pregnancy, handled here rather than referred out. Dr. Raghunathan holds the whole service.
The yearly visit including cervical screening when you are due. Also the visit where most people finally mention the thing they have been meaning to ask about.
Thirty minutes. Most insurance covers this in full as preventive care.
A conversation about what fits your life, not a default prescription. Pills, implants, and IUDs are all discussed, and IUD placement and removal are done here.
Thirty minutes to discuss. IUD placement is booked separately, usually within two weeks.
Confirmation, dating, first blood work, and a plan for the months ahead including which delivering practice you want. Come in as soon as you have a positive test.
Forty minutes. We coordinate the handoff to your delivering provider.
Sleep, temperature, mood, cycles that have gone strange. This is a long appointment on purpose, because it is rarely one question and it is rarely quick.
Forty minutes. Bring a rough record of the last few months if you have one.