NEEL FRENCH MD SC OFFICE IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED 8/1/2024
To all my former patients: THANKS for allowing me to provide your medical care for the last 35 years!
NEEL FRENCH, MD, SC STOPPED ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS 2/27/2023 and DR FRENCH RETIRED JULY 31, 2024 (this retirement date has been posted on this website since 2/28/2022)
Please only use neel@neelfrenchmd.com to contact Neel French, MD SC. Do not use the ECW portal.
If you must fax anything to Neel French, MD, SC fax to 773-348-5110.
TO MY FORMER BCBS HMO PATIENTS:
For those of you who did not clarify/specify your desired PCP, Guidehealth automatically assigned Dr Ryan Cook as your PCP on 7/31/2024. A letter was sent from Guidehealth outlining this procedure in April 2024.
STARTING 8/5/2024, IF YOU NEED TO REACH GUIDEHEALTH TO CLARIFY YOUR PCP:
Go to secure.guidehealth.com and go to contact page and create a short inquiry and you will receive a "ticket" and your request willl be handled promptly.
BLUE FOCUSCARE HMO WILL BE DISCONTINUED IN 1/1/2025 AND WILL BE REPLACED BY:
MyBLue Plus
Thankfully, all the Ascension St Joseph docs in site 506 will be part of this new plan
Dr French did not sell the practice, since virtually no one is in solo, private practice anymore. There is NOT a new provider at the old office MOST OF OUR FORMER PATIENTS HAVE ALREADY MADE APPOINTMENTS FOR THEIR 1ST VISIT WITH A NEW DOCTOR THIS HAS BEEN ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT FOR PATIENTS WHO TAKE MULTIPLE MEDICATIONS. HMO PATIENTS (BLUE ADVANTAGE, PRECISION, FOCUSCARE, HMO ILLINOIS, CIGNA CONNECT, HUMANA HMO, BC MEDICARE ADVANTAGE HMO, BLUE CROSS COMMUNITY MEDICAID HMO AND OTHERS HMOS) NEED TO COORDINATE CHOOSING A NEW PCP IN ADDITION TO SCHEDULING NEW DOCTOR APPTS. SOME OFFICES REQUIRE THAT YOU CHANGE PCPs (OR AT LEAST PROVIDE A REFERENCE # DOCUMENTING YOUR CALL TO THE INSURER) before they will let you make an appointment.
Although Dr. French was an independent physician, many of his patients, especially with HMO's are attributed to Amita Health CIN (AHCIN) and are managed within the Ascension system (formerly called Amita or Presence). Although Ascension Illinois will sell several of its hospitals to Prime Healthcare in 2025, they will NOT sell Ascension St. Joseph Hospital Chicago nor its medical groups, which is good news. There are many fine physicians within this system:
Ascension Medical Group Lincoln Park: Dr. John Lee, Max Arons, Khrystyna Savchuk/773-281-3563 Ascension Near North: Dr. George Roepke (LGBTQ/HIV interest)/ 312-280-0996
Ascension St Joseph (Dr. Ryan Cook (LBGTQ interest), Owais Lodhi, Kirsten Hefele and multiple other docs/773-665-6851).
Ascension Family Practice Group: (Alyssa Hart, Aneesh Tyle AND colleagues /312-337-1982)
THIS LOCATION IS A TEACHING CLINIC AND SAME DAY APPTS WITH THEIR INTERNS AND RESIDENTS ARE POSSIBLE.
Ascension Resurrection 773-774-7474 (Drs Molina, Cano-Garcia, Ciszek and others)
Ascension North Avenue: 312-573-7597 (James Nee and Ankita Dalal)
Ascension Stony Island: 773-731-0670 (Karen Botsoe and Kristopher Carpenter)
Private Physician at 2845 N Sheridan: Farah Khan 773-437-6960
Other providers that patients have chosen:
***Northwestern Lincoln Square 312-926-3627 (on 4/17/2024, I learned that
Evan Wittke MD will be moving to their GLENVIEW location AFTER 9/1/2024), but there are
other providers at this location
***Northwestern Irving Park 312-926-3627 Blance Serna, Daniella Brutman, Ryan Edwards
***Northwestern Belmont 312-926-3627 Dr Shea Welsh and other new docs
***Northwestern Bucktown 312-926-3627: Chris Miller, Eric Chung, Sarah Sefcovic
***Rush on Sheffield 773-472-3704 (Joshua Mueller PA-C)
***WellnessHome (Private practice LGBTQ/HIV): Drs Brownlee, Vargas, Stokes 773-296-2400
There is also a southside location at 35th/Halsted
***The Clark (Northshore /Andersonville): Drs Tyler Saunders, Brian Stojack, Zachary Long
***Advocate Ravenswood including Zach LaMaster (LGBTQ) 773-561-7500
***University of Chicago Primary Care Group (various locations): 773-702-6840
***Michigan Avenue Internists (several physicians including Evan Ng (LGBTQ), Drs Amy Chen and Steven Paterakos): 312-922-3815. Large group practice with NWM admitting privileges.
***Howard Brown Health Center Halsted
***One Medical
***Primecare in Wicker Park
DR FRENCH IS NOT RECOMMENDING ANY SPECIFIC DOCTOR OR LOCATION AS THEIR INFO IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
Medical records that are in our possession may be provided either to you directly or to any new provider with a properly executed medical release (see the Medical Records Release TAB on this website). At some point after all the business affairs of the practice are settled, your medical records will be sent to a CUSTODIAN OF RECORDS and their contact info will be provided ON THIS WEBSITE.
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