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Thousands Of Calls. Three Pillars Of Care.

Medicine is a world unto itself, with its own language, its own gatekeepers, and its own unwritten rules about who gets seen quickly. We help patients find their way through it — and when the way is blocked, we go through the block.

Pillar 01

Case management & advocacy

You explain it once.

One advisor. One case. From the first call to the last follow-up.

We don’t hand out names. We match.
Our advisors work each case in detail before recommending anyone: outcomes with this specific condition, procedural volume, subspecialty focus, bedside manner, language,
and whether the family can realistically get there. A referral is only as good as the appointment that follows it, so the two are handled together.

The referral isn’t the finish line. It’s roughly the third step.
Our advisors stay with patients through the full arc of treatment — coordinating between
specialists who aren’t talking to each other, tracking what’s been ruled out and what
hasn’t, managing long-term conditions that outlast any single hospitalization, and making
sure that a plan agreed to in March is still being followed in September


When standard medicine has run out of options, an experimental treatment is sometimes the only one left. Getting into a trial is its own maze: eligibility criteria written to exclude,
enrollment windows that close, sites concentrated in a handful of academic centers, and paperwork that defeats families who have nothing left to give.
Fewer than one in twenty adult cancer patients ever enrolls in a trial — and the single largest reason is that no suitable trial was available where they were being treated. We work our industry relationships to know what’s opening before it opens, and we cut through the enrollment process on the patient’s behalf.

Sometimes a patient needs a level of care the local hospital cannot provide.
Moving them is not a matter of calling an ambulance. It requires an accepting physician at the receiving hospital, an available bed, a discharging team willing to release, insurance authorization, a transport crew equipped for the patient’s condition, and every one of those pieces holding at the same moment. Families are asked to arrange this while
sitting beside someone who is critically ill.
We handle it. All of it, down to which equipment travels in which vehicle.

Organ transplants run on coordination between several medical teams, a transport
window measured in hours, and logistics most families have never had cause to imagine.
We facilitate every detail and hold the family’s hand through an experience that is, even
in the best outcome, one of the hardest things a person will go through.

Pillar 02

Comprehensive Support

No is not the last word.

At Lev Medical, we go beyond referrals, relentlessly pursuing solutions on behalf of each patient
No patient should be denied treatment for lack of money. When a medical situation requires care that insurance won’t cover, we provide funds so the patient receives the critical treatment, the medication, or the specialist appointment. The clinical need decides. Nothing else does.
Fighting for care means fighting for coverage. We work insurers to overturn denials, secure prior authorizations, and pursue reimbursement for treatments a family has already paid for, so that surviving an illness doesn’t mean drowning in debt afterward. We also use our relationships with pharmaceutical assistance programs to get medications into patients’ hands when the pharmacy counter says no. Insurers deny roughly one in five in-network claims on marketplace plans. Fewer than one percent of those denials are ever appealed. When they are appealed — properly, with the right clinical documentation — a very large share of them are overturned. Almost every denial is a first answer, not a final one. We treat it that way.
Patients and families arrive frightened, exhausted, and fluent in none of the vocabulary being used around them. They’re asked to make irreversible decisions in a language they don’t speak, often with no one in the room whose only loyalty is to them. Our advisors work directly with hospitals and clinical staff to make sure needs are actually met — medical, cultural, dietary, religious, and everything past the edge of a chart.

Pillar 03

Extensive Research

There is always one more place to look.

We go beyond the usual channels to find real answers when patients are out of options.
When a disease isn’t a textbook case, our researchers take it apart — mechanism, presentation, differential, downstream effects — to determine the best available course of treatment. We consult directly with world-renowned physicians on the cases that warrant it, so the most complex situations get the highest level of insight available anywhere. The value of a second look is not sentimental. In one study of complex cases referred to a major academic center, only twelve percent of patients had their original diagnosis confirmed as complete and correct. Twenty-one percent left with an entirely different diagnosis.
Treatment options for rare conditions often haven’t reached mainstream practice yet. They exist in journals, in case reports, in a trial that closed to enrollment in one country and opened in another, in the working knowledge of a physician who has seen eleven of these in a career. Our researchers put in the hours — reading, cross-referencing, calling — to surface options that give patients a reason to keep going when everything visible has been tried. The average patient with a rare disease waits between four and six years for an accurate diagnosis, seeing multiple specialists and collecting misdiagnoses along the way. Those years are not neutral. They’re the years the disease has to work with. Shortening them is the whole point.

Every specialty, every need, every day

Nineteen divisions

Lev Medical’s 19 divisions cover effectively every medical condition and disease known to medicine. Our advisors specialize by staying current — conferences, coursework, ongoing supervision, and the steady work of following research as it moves. Deep knowledge, hard-won insight, and connections that reach further than most patients could reach on their own.

Oncology

Guiding patients through the complexities of cancer care with urgency, clarity and hope, while staying ahead of fast-moving discoveries and clinical trials.

Genetics & Metabolism

Advanced molecular genetic research and treatment planning for hereditary diseases, chromosomal conditions and metabolic disorders.

Complex Paediatric Illnesses

Coordinating multi-specialty care for children with rare, chronic or difficult-to-diagnose conditions.

 

Ob/Gyn Maternal & Fetal Medicine

Securing urgent, specialised care for high-risk pregnancies and complex gynaecological issues at respected medical centres and NICUs nationwide.

Gastroenterology

Advocating for timely diagnostics and treatment for patients, including children, with serious digestive disorders.

Critical Care

Mobilising emergency approvals, transportation and high-level critical care for victims of trauma and crisis.

Oncology

Guiding patients through the complexities of cancer care with urgency, clarity and hope, while staying ahead of fast-moving discoveries and clinical trials.

Cardiology

Current treatment, intervention and disease management for patients with congenital and acquired heart conditions.

Endocrinology & Immunology

Supporting patients with hormone disorders and immune system diseases through coordinated care and expert oversight.

Neurology

Navigating debilitating and life-altering neurological disorders with the speed and precision that outcomes depend on.

Orthopaedics

Fast-tracking surgical consults, rehab access and treatment for musculoskeletal injuries and disorders.

Pulmonology

Critical support for chronic and acute respiratory conditions, working with the transplant team to facilitate lung transplants for the sickest patients.

Hepatology & Nephrology

Connecting patients to lifesaving liver and kidney care, including transplants, dialysis and medical trials.

Rheumatology

Early intervention and treatment coordination for patients with autoimmune conditions and inflammatory disease.

Vascular Disorders

Guiding patients through diagnostics and procedures for complex circulatory conditions and acute vascular emergencies.

Otolaryngology (ENT)

Resolving delays in care for the ear, nose, throat and related structures, including paediatric and adult hearing loss and feeding and swallowing disorders.

Dermatology

Helping patients with debilitating skin conditions reach timely evaluation, diagnosis and treatment.

Urology

A range of urologic conditions, including cancers, female pelvic and male prostate issues, complex reconstruction and recurrent UTI.

Oral & Maxillofacial Disorders

Coordinating surgical and medical care for complex dental, jaw and facial conditions, including neurological disorders, cleft palates, and head and neck cancers.

EVERY SPECIALTY

Nineteen divisions cover virtually
every condition we are called about.

In the language it comes from, lev isn’t only the organ that beats. It’s the seat of resolve. aOur advisors stay current through conferences, coursework and ongoing supervision — so the person who picks up the phone already speaks the language of your diagnosis.
01
Intake Coordinators

The first “How can I help you?” — and the first moment a family stops carrying it alone. Intake reads the urgency of a call and routes it to the right advisor, fast.

02

Medical Advisors
Every call reaches an advisor who specializes in that patient’s condition. They listen closely, work through the medical history, and determine the most urgent next step. Their expertise turns panic into a plan.

03

Medical Referral Specialists
They match patients to the right specialist based on condition, location, and coverage. The goal is simple: the right doctor, as fast as humanly possible.

04

Medical Records Requisitionists
A patient’s medical past holds the clues. This team chases down past scans, reports, and records from every institution, so nobody is working from a partial picture.

05

Appointment Expediters
When a receptionist says the first opening is in eleven weeks, this team goes to work. Next-day appointments instead of next-season ones. Years of relationships, called in.

06

Insurance Advocates
“We don’t accept your insurance.” “That procedure isn’t covered.” Our insurance team exists to take those sentences apart. It removes one of the single heaviest burdens patients carry.

07

Research Team

Investigating each case in depth, exploring experimental treatments worldwide, and going through the medical literature for answers that haven’t reached general practice yet.

08

Transfer & Transport Team
When seconds count, this team runs the whole operation — coordinating between facilities, securing air ambulances, clearing insurance roadblocks, tracking bed availability, and managing transplant organ transport.

09

Tech Team
Video conferences with physicians in other time zones, patient portal access, forms that have to be completed correctly the first time. Unglamorous, and nothing moves without it.

10

Emergency Phone Operators
Emergencies don’t keep office hours, and neither do we. Predawn to past midnight, Shabbos to mid-Seder, there’s an on-call operator ready to act.

"To our team, each patient is number one. Because every life is worth saving."

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