#1 – On About OptiHealthMD page (http://ruthhoover.360sites.net/about-optihealthmd/): Add the following content:
“We aim to prevent chronic illnesses … and to restore health and well-being at all ages. We work to rebalance your natural chemistry, using non-drug treatments as much as possible.
Our youth are suffering from chronic illnesses at increasing rates.
Hormone levels are dropping at younger and younger ages.
Mid-life is hitting us harder and harder.
It doesn’t have to be this way – and our passion is to alter the course for you and your family.
Statistics shows that while the dollars spent in healthcare in our country are skyrocketing, our health report card is suffering. Chronic illnesses plague us at increasing rates. Depression and anxiety are on the rise in young and old alike.
Despite advances in technology and mega-dollars spent on pharmaceuticals, heart attack and stroke are our most common causes of death. We have more Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease than ever before. Autoimmune disorders are increasingly common. Sadly, our nation’s health ranks below many other less developed countries.
Despite all the healthcare dollars that we spend, the drugs that we take, and the procedures that we do, chronic illnesses are on the rise.
At OptiHealth MD, rather than giving a medication to treat a symptom, we try to figure out what made the symptom start in the first place…
…And address your specific underlying challenges with non-drug treatments whenever possible.
We believe strongly in hormonal optimization with Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy – not just for relief of symptoms but also for prevention of disease & softening the effects of aging. All hormone therapies are very personalized, precise, and carefully monitored. There are no one-size-fits-all packages.
We are also armed with knowledge beyond just hormones and believe that hormone optimization should not be started without assessing the body and soul as a whole. There is more to health prevention and an anti-aging regimen than just hormones. Managing your nutrition and overall disease risk factors prior to the initiation of hormone optimization is medically necessary for your health and wellbeing.
Hormones alone won’t make you feel better
if the rest of your body is falling apart!
With our Comprehensive Preventive Health Risk Assessment, we will give you a bird’s eye view of more factors about your health than you’ve probably ever heard of. Armed with this information, you can opt to either chart your own health recovery and maintenance course or have us help you along that journey.
Since heart attacks and strokes are the leading cause of death in our country – and about half come without warning signs – we searched for and found a way to test for signs of early trouble in your vessels, long before it might show up on blood pressure readings, ultrasounds, or other conventional methods of screening. We are proud to offer the MaxPulse CardioScan as an advanced noninvasive measure to identify cardiovascular problems before they show up on conventional testing. Then, based on what we find, we can help offer suggestions about how you can take charge of your health and turn things around…preferably without medications.
The AO Digital Body Analyzer allows us to dive even deeper into your health status. This non-invasive bio-resonance tool detects subtle imbalances in the electrical health of the cells throughout your body. This enables us to quickly and noninvasively screen for nutritional deficits, infections that you may not know you have, toxicities, allergies, hormonal imbalances, and more — often saving thousands of dollars on traditional lab testing.
While most folks have never heard of this technology, it is supported by a plethora of research from peer reviewed publications as well as real-world experience on millions of patients throughout the world including astronauts at NASA and the Russian Cosmonauts.
We also use this unique AO Digital Body Analyzer to use Radionics sessions to actually help you feel better – by optimizing your electrical health. The AO Scanner can improve the electrical signature within the cells of each organ system of your body so you can feel better. It also remarkably works to rid you of underlying infections and pathogens without harming the healthy tissues.
While AO Scanner sessions are powerful by themselves, they are even more effective when combined with an overall OptiHealth MD comprehensive plan for health maintenance and restoration. This plan will be tailored for your specific needs as well as your specific health goals.
Expect to spend 90 minutes initially with the doctor for your
Comprehensive Preventive Health Risk Assessment.
Following that, a second 30 minute visit will be included where your personalized wellness plan will be further defined.
Expect to be amazed
at what you’ll learn about your body & your health.
We do not offer on-sized-fits-all packages. In fact, if you opt to take the wealth of knowledge that you gain from your preventive health screening and journey down your wellness road without OptiHealth MD as a guide, you may.
If however, you want or need medical guidance, we are happy to walk with you.
Don’t just focus your days on how to grow your wealth. Grow your health. Optimize the life you have been given so that you can achieve a true “purpose-driven life”. What do you have to lose? Schedule your initial consultation today.
Wishing You Health & Blessings,
Dr Ruth
P.S. This journey, if you choose to embark on it, is only for those who are serious about improving their health and are willing to take active steps toward a healthier tomorrow. There is no magic wand! There is no magic pill! But there are amazing solutions… and I’m certain that your tomorrows
can be brighter.
P.P.S. For more information about how to get started on your wellness journey, click the link across the top titled “Questions” or contact us.”
#2 – About Dr. Hoover page (http://ruthhoover.360sites.net/about-dr-hoover/): Add the following content:
“Dr Hoover is trained and experienced not only in traditional medicine, but also in nutritional, anti-aging and alternative medicine. She is addicted to continuing education about bio-identical hormones and natural, preventive health. There would be no way to add up all of the hours that she has spent in courses in the last ten years… or miles that she has travelled… in the pursuit of cutting-edge knowledge in nutritional and alternative health.
Her passion is to share what she has learned — and the protocols that she has developed over the years — with others. Despite a thriving and profitable career in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, she reached a point after 28 years as a physician that she had to follow a calling to a road less travelled — a road that she believes leads to healthier, happier, and more productive lives (not to mention marriages and families).
Dr Hoover believes that masking symptoms with synthetic medications — and putting band aids on chronic illnesses rather than figuring out the underlying root causes — simply serves to make us chemically dependent, chronically ill, and often unhappy. Dr Hoover wants you to experience the joy, energy, and vitality that you were designed to experience so that you can live out your own true potential in mind, body, and spirit.
When not working to share the good news of preventive natural health, she enjoys South Carolina coastal life with her family. Blessed to be a mother of four amazing children (five counting a wonderful son-in-law), and a “Glamma” of one, there is never a dull moment in the Hoover household!
Education, Experience, & Associations
+MD, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1989
+BS, Nutrition Science, University of Minnesota, 1983
+Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Residency, St Francis Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 1989-1993.
+Diplomat of the American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation,1995 to 2025
+Board Certified – Fellowship Candidate of the American Academy of Anti-Aging & Regenerative Medicine
+Member, The Academy of Preventive & Innovative Medicine
+Member, Age Management Medical Group
+Medical Director, HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Charleston, SC, 1993 – 2010.
+Electromyographer – Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, Charleston, SC 2010-2011.
+LIfecare Physician Services InHouse Rehabilitation Specialist, Charleston, SC, 2011-2017.
+OptumHealth Housecalls Collaborating Physician, 4/2017 to present
+CompHealth PM&R Locums Physician 8/2017 to present
+Member, American Writers & Artists “Circle of Success”
+American Writers & Artists Advanced Copywriter
+Member, Professional Writer’s Association
+Contributing author for “Doctor Direct” a publication of the Institute of Natural Healing, a division of AGORA publications
+Active unrestricted medical licenses held in South Carolina & Minnesota”
#3 – AO Scan posts (http://ruthhoover.360sites.net/2018/01/19/ao-scan/): Replace the text on this page with the following:
“There are no reported side effects from using the AO Scanner. But there are lots of benefits.
As a diagnostic tool, it has been shown to have a degree of accuracy that meets or exceeds commonly performed medical testing for a wide variety of conditions and infections. It also allows Dr. Hoover to dig deeply below the surface in her search for why you feel how you feel… or why you might be at risk of developing a health condition.
As a treatment tool, the AO Scanner has been shown to be effective in a vast number of conditions including prostatitis, rheumatoid arthritis, eczema, chronic bronchitis, trigeminal neuralgia, many pediatric conditions, GI complaints, allergies of all types, asthma, dermatitis, Lyme disease, hepatitis, and more in both human and animal studies.
The AO Scanner is a noninvasive procedure with no side effect or risks. It quickly evaluates the entire body’s electromagnetic energy in order to detect illness and unwanted organisms.
The AO Scanner helps us establish a baseline. A 24-page report is produced, highlighting more than 650 different areas into 47 different health categories. The categories include environmental and food allergies, bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic diseases, toxicities including heavy metals, genetic issues, hormonal imbalances, GI health, detoxification status and reproductive concerns. The report also assesses nutritional factors such as amino acids, vitamins, and minerals, and fats.
Another feature of the AO Scanner is its ability to optimize the electrical health in every organ system of the body. In doing this, it helps improve the healthy tissues while ridding the ‘bad guys’ from your system.
We can target specific tissues such as your heart, lungs, brain, digestive tract, eyes, ears, muscles, bones, lymphatics, skin, and blood vessels. We can even target your chromosomes, which has theoretical overall healing and age management benefits.
The AO Scanner can not only identify unwanted intestinal parasites, viruses, bacteria, and even head lice but it can also alter their electrical signals so that they can no longer survive.
The AO Scanner also possesses countless ways to improve emotional health, which is especially useful for those seeking to minimize their reliance on medications while optimizing their wellbeing.
While there are no guarantees, significant symptom reduction has been seen from our treatments in some individuals after just one session. Typically, though, it requires a series of frequency optimization sessions to achieve energy medicine healing, and it is always best to combine radionics with an overall wellness program.
We see Energy Medicine as a vital and commonly overlooked aspect of medical care– and the remarkable AO Digital Body Analyzer as an invaluable tool in your OptiHealth MD wellness journey.
The AO Digital Body Analyzer Vital Scan will be performed as a part of every Comprehensive Preventive Health Risk Assessment.
It can also be scheduled individually if you prefer to have this service without a full assessment.
To schedule, click on the “patient portal” or contact us for more information.”
#4 – Create a “FAQ” page and add the following content. The questions should be in DIVI toggles.
“Do You Accept Insurnaces?
We do not bill insurance, but …
+For those with a private medical insurance (not Medicaid or Medicare), we will provide you with a superbill that you can use to submit on your own to request reimbursement or to apply toward your deductible. We cannot, however, guarantee what you will or will not receive from your insurance carrier.
+If you have a Medical Savings Account or HSA that covers medical services then you can use this to help minimize your out-of-pocket costs.
+The Initial Comprehensive Preventive Health Risk Assessment fee will lead to several charges that we hope will be covered by your insurance. This will include the initial lengthy office visit, the follow-up visit, and for those who have certain cardiovascular risk factors, the Max Pulse CardioScan. This is not a guarantee of coverage by your particular insurance carrier, but we are hopeful that you will be successful. We will code all pertinent diagnostic codes on the superbill to help ensure your success.
+The AO Digital Body Analyzer does not have an insurance code and is not reimbursable through insurance plans. It is likely however that you can use your medical savings account or HSA.
+Max Pulse CardioScan does have an insurance code for reimbursement for patients with certain diagnoses, in particular those with cardiovascular risk factors.
+Check with your HSA or other health savings account to be sure, but pharmaceutical grade supplements that are doctor-prescribed as a part of your treatment plan may be covered. By taking quality supplements as directed by a physician trained in natural health, you may be able to utilize the tax benefit of your health savings account for nutritional supplementation.
+If you are a Medicare recipient, the rules are different. Being a non-insurance based practice, we are not a part of Medicare. Medicare rules do not allow you to submit a claim for services. If you have Medicare you will not be able to receive any reimbursement for services according to the federal regulations.
What Age of Patients Do You See?
+We are happy to see patients from age 10 and up.
+For little ones below that, check with us. Exceptions can be made depending on your situation.
Where are Labs Drawn?
+For baseline and the majority of follow-up labs, we generally use True Health Diagnostics. Labs can be drawn in Mount Pleasant as well as nationally for those who are from out of town. True Health will bill insurance and will not leave you with unexpected charges. If you don’t have insurance, they offer special cash pricing. We have chosen this lab for both quality & price.
+For those on natural hormone replacement we also generally like to do an annual urinary hormone test that gives insight into how you clear toxins, which helps us minimize your cancer and other disease risks. For that test, we use another lab that also bills your insurance company. You will receive a kit for at-home collection of urine four times during the day of the test and mail it back to the lab company.
+There may be specialty tests from other lab companies depending up on your unique set of issues. Whenever possible, we use companies that bill insurance for you.
Why Don’t You Draw Labs Before I See You so I can Get Started Faster?
+We really try to minimize unnecessary tests. We first use our noninvasive diagnostic testing as a part of our comprehensive initial assessment to obtain a very wide (and deep) screen. After this initial screen we will better target your specific challenges, and better target what labs are necessary for you.
+If, however, you are from out of town and want to do as much as possible upfront just let us know and we will go ahead and get them ordered to be drawn in your hometown before you we see you. Kindly fill out all of the intake forms first so we can better determine what needs to be drawn.
+If you are convinced that you want natural hormone replacement therapy and want it asap, let us know and we can order labs ahead of your visit. Our preference though is to have them drawn after your comprehensive initial 90 minute assessment with the doctor and before your 30 minute follow-up.
How Often Will I Have Labs Drawn?
+It depends. OptiHealth MD takes a personalized approach, and every person is different.
+For hormone replacement therapy, expect that you will have your labs drawn every 3 months. Once established on an optimal routine, we may be able to reduce the frequency.
+For other health problems, it is highly individualized. You will have labs often enough to know that you are on a safe and optimal wellness path.
How Do I Get Started?
+When you are ready to make an appointment, you can schedule through the “patient portal” at www.OptiHealthMD.com.
+There are online forms for you to fill out before you come. You’ll find that we have a very detailed health and lifestyle questionnaire so it may take a while to complete them. To best use your time in the office as well as get the most out of your assessment, please fill these out PRIOR to arrival. The sooner the better so that we can have a chance to prepare for you.
+Although there is no delay in getting insurance approval or a referral before your visit, we do request a credit card to hold your visit.
+Your card will not be charged until after your visit.
+For no-shows, the card will be charged after your missed appointment.
What are Your Fees?
+Please email us or hit the “contact” link on the website to receive up to date fees on all services.
What are Your Services?
+In order to know where your greatest challenges lie and how to best guide you on your wellness journey, everyone starts with a Comprehensive Preventive Health Risk Assessment. This is a one time, all-inclusive service that includes an initial physician visit lasting 90 minutes and a follow-up physician visit of 30 minutes as well as a Body Composition Analysis, Max Pulse CardioScan, & AOScan Digital Body Analyzer Vital Scan Report.
+Follow-up physician visits will be 30 and 60 minutes in length. These visits are charged at an hourly rate.
+AOScan Digital Body Analyzer Vital Scan testing is offered as a stand-alone service which will about 60 minutes to perform and review the results (also performed automatically as a part of the Comprehensive Preventive Health Risk Assessment).
+AoScan Digital Body Analyzer Radionics Sessions are offered as individual sessions or bundled into packages of 5 or 10. Packages include a repeat Vital Scan report.
+Max Pulse CardioScan testing is offered as a stand-alone service, including approximately 30 minutes to review the report (also performed automatically as a part of the Comprehensive Preventive Health Risk Assessment).
How Often Will I Have to be Seen?
+OptiHealth MD services are not a cookie cutter plan. You will be seen as often as is necessary to achieve your wellness goals.
+For those benefiting from natural hormone replacement therapy, as a general rule of thumb will need to be seen every 3 months.
+Those desiring an active weight loss plan will need to be seen more often.
+Follow-up visits are generally offered in 30 & 60-minute increments.
What is Your Cancellation Policy?
+Please realize that unlike a typical medical office, our appointments are lengthy and we will not double book.
+We kindly ask that you give a 72 hour notice if you must cancel, otherwise there will be a 50% charge.
+If you must cancel and can find someone who wishes replace you, that will work, too. Please ask them to fill out all of their online forms as soon as possible in advance of the visit so that their time in the office is well spent.
+If someone else will be filling in for you, let us know ahead of time.”
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+Comprehensive Preventive Health Risk Assessment
+Age Management & BioIdentical Hormone Optimization
+Chronic Disease Management — An Integrative Approach
+Weight Management — Optimal Weight, Optimal Health
+Thyroid Optimization
+Sports Optimization
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