For referring providers
We partner in your patient’s care and return them to you.
Ascend Surgical Alliance is a metabolic, reflux, and endoscopy practice. You keep the longitudinal relationship. We evaluate the question you send, discuss options with the patient, perform the procedure if it is indicated, and document our findings back to your office.
- Consultation and workup, not transfer of primary care
- Written assessment and plan back to the referring office
- 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.
- [CLINICAL REVIEW: confirm whether Dr. Good wants any candidacy thresholds stated here, or wants this left as open referral language.]
Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty (ESG)
- A patient wants a metabolic procedure but does not want an operation.
- A patient asks specifically about incisionless or endoscopic options.
- A patient has declined surgery previously and is asking what else is available.
- [CLINICAL REVIEW: confirm exclusion language for prior gastric procedures before publishing referral guidance for ESG.]
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.
- [CLINICAL REVIEW: confirm which reflux diagnostics are performed in house so referral expectations are accurate.]
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Endoscopy
- Upper GI symptoms where direct visualization would change your management.
- Surveillance or follow-up endoscopy the patient needs scheduled.
- A therapeutic endoscopic question you would like a surgical endoscopist to assess.
- [CLINICAL REVIEW: confirm the list of therapeutic endoscopic procedures offered before naming them here.]
What happens after you refer
- 01
We contact your office
Our office reaches out to arrange the referral and collect what is needed through a secure channel. Nothing clinical moves through the website.
- 02
The patient is scheduled and evaluated
We take a history, review what you have already worked up, and order testing only where it changes the plan.
- 03
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.
- 04
A note goes back to you
You receive our assessment, what was performed if anything, and the follow-up plan, so the patient returns to you with the record intact.
Referral contact
Use these channels for office-to-office coordination. Clinical information is exchanged securely once we have made contact, never through this site.
- Direct referral line
- TBDDirect referral line pending
- Referral email
- TBDReferral email pending
- Referral fax
- TBDReferral fax pending
Provider one-pager
A single-page reference covering services, referral triggers, and contact details for your office. It is being prepared and is not available for download yet.
Referral request
Office details only. We will follow up to arrange the referral through a secure channel.