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What Happens When Someone Calls Lev Medical?

Most people call us on the worst day they’ve had. Here is exactly what happens next.

Before you call.

You do not need to be organized. You do not need the right words for it. You do not need a diagnosis, a referral, or permission from anyone.
Bring whatever you have. If you know the name of the condition, tell us. If all you know is that a doctor said something frightening and you did not understand it, tell us that instead. We have started from there many times.

Helpful if you have it, unnecessary if you do not.

"We will get the rest. Chasing down records is literally a department here."

THE NINE STAGES

Comprehensive Support

One call. Nine teams. No handoffs you’ll ever feel.

1

Intake

The intake coordinator listens first. Then they identify which of our nineteen divisions the case belongs to and route it to the right advisor. Urgent cases skip the queue entirely. Whatever else happens next, one thing has already changed: you are no longer the only person working on this.

2

Lev Medical Advisor

An advisor who works your field, and only your field. They listen, read the history, and offer the kind of reassurance that is worth something — the kind that comes with a next step attached. This is the person who will still know your file in nine months.

3

Medical Referral

The patient is guided to the best physician for this specific condition. Because a medical history usually holds the clues to the source of an illness, the case is directed to the department best equipped to read them. Not the nearest doctor. The right one.

4

Medical Records Requisitions

Requisitionists obtain the full record — old scans, reports, prior workups — so nothing is missed and no exhausted patient is put through the same test twice. When time matters, this runs in parallel with everything else.

5

Appointment Expediter

Expediters arrange urgent appointments by calling on relationships built over years. The eleven-week wait becomes a Thursday. For a cancer that is being staged, that is not a convenience. That is the whole thing.

6

Insurance Advocacy Team

The advocacy team works the approval — and the denial, and the appeal — so that treatment is not held hostage by a coverage decision made in an office by someone who has never met the patient.

7

Research Team

The research team confers and digs: journals, case series, open trials, specialists abroad. They are looking for the absolute best option available and, where one exists, a cure. This is the step that has ended, more than once, with a phone number for a doctor in a town nobody had heard of.

8

Transfer & Transport Team

Patients are often admitted locally first, or need to reach a specific centre. The transport team handles what that actually involves — hospital-to-hospital negotiation, scheduling, bed availability, air ambulance, and the hundred smaller details underneath each of those. The family's job during all of this is to sit with the patient.

9

We stay until it's finished

From the first difficult stage after diagnosis, through the intricacies of care, into post-recovery follow-up. A constant point of comfort, support and guidance for the patient and the family — long after the emergency stops looking like one.

WHY THIS WORK EXISTS

None of this is your fault.

Families who call us often apologize. They think they should have caught something sooner, pushed harder, asked a better question. They almost never should have. The obstacles they have run into are structural, well documented, and affecting millions of people at the same moment.

95%

of physicians say prior authorization delays access to necessary care.

Fewer than 1%

of denied in-network claims are ever appealed — while a large share that are appealed succeed.

4–6 years

is the average wait for an accurate diagnosis of a rare disease.

26%

of physicians report prior authorization has led to a serious adverse event for a patient.

A system this hard to move requires somebody whose entire job is moving it.

Availability

Emergencies keep no office hours

Predawn to past midnight, Shabbos to mid-Seder, there is an on-call operator ready to take action.

Line

Emergency and intake calls answered around the clock, every day of the year.

Cost

Every service is provided free of charge to patients and families. There is no bill, ever.
Scope
We take the cases others have called too complicated, too rare, or too far along.
Reach
A referral and research network that spans the globe.

Cost

Nothing. That's the whole answer.

Lev Medical’s services are free to patients and families. There is no fee, no percentage taken from any recovery, and no bill afterward.
If a medically critical treatment isn’t covered by insurance and the family can’t pay for it, we look at funding it ourselves.

CALL Us

Who calls us.

Patients and families in the middle of a medical crisis. Adult children trying to help a parent from three states away. Parents of a child whose symptoms no one has been able to name. Physicians who have reached the edge of what they can arrange for a patient and want another set of hands. Social workers and hospital staff who know a case needs more than their institution can give it.

If you're not sure whether your situation qualifies, it does. Call.

Start with a phone call.

No forms first. No qualifying questions. Someone picks up, and then it’s already not just yours to carry.
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