For referring providers
We partner with you in your patient’s care.
Ascend Surgical Alliance is a metabolic, reflux, and endoscopy practice. We strive for longitudinal relationships. We evaluate the question you send, discuss options with the patient, perform the procedure if it is indicated, and work with you on an ongoing plan for your patient’s care.
- Consultation and workup, not transfer of primary care
- Direct physician-to-physician contact when a case warrants it
When to refer
These are referral considerations, not diagnostic criteria. If you are unsure whether a referral fits, send it and we will tell you honestly.
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
- A patient asks about surgical options for metabolic disease and wants a surgical opinion.
- Medical and lifestyle management has been tried and the patient wants to discuss what else exists.
- A metabolic comorbidity is not responding to current management and the patient is open to a surgical evaluation.
Endoscopic Suturing (ESG and TORe)
- A patient wants a metabolic procedure but does not want an operation.
- A patient with a prior gastric bypass and weight regain who may be a candidate for transoral outlet reduction (TORe).
- A patient asks specifically about incisionless or endoscopic options.
Reflux Evaluation and Treatment
- Symptoms persist despite acid suppression, or the patient does not want to stay on long-term therapy.
- Symptoms recur each time therapy is stopped.
- The patient has reflux symptoms and you want objective testing before committing to a long-term plan.
- Reflux symptoms in a patient who is also being evaluated for metabolic disease.
Diagnostic Endoscopy
- Upper GI symptoms where direct visualization would change your management.
- Surveillance or follow-up endoscopy the patient needs scheduled.
- An endoscopic question you would like a surgical endoscopist to assess.
What happens after you refer
- 01
We contact the patient
Our office reaches out to the patient directly to schedule the visit.
- 02
We contact your office
Once the patient is scheduled, we reach out to your office through a secure channel for prior visits, studies, and anything else that would inform the evaluation.
- 03
The patient is seen and evaluated
We take a history, review what you have already worked up, and order testing only where it changes the plan.
- 04
Options are discussed with the patient
Medical, endoscopic, and surgical paths are laid out plainly. The patient decides. Declining a procedure is a legitimate outcome.
- 05
A collaborative approach to the treatment plan is decided upon
An ongoing alliance for the care of the patient is formed.
Referral contact
Use these channels for office-to-office coordination. Clinical information is exchanged securely once we have made contact, never through this site.
- Referral email
- info@ascendsurgicalalliance.com
- Direct referral line
- 720-465-1173
- Referral fax
- 800-579-1669