Insurances

Contracted Insurances

We are contracted with the following insurance carriers:

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care                               Blue Cross & Blue Shield        
Tufts Health Plan (all plans)                                HMO Blue (all plans)
Children's Medical Security Plan                         Blue Cross Blue Shield, Indemnity and Master Health Plus
Unicare                                                                BlueCare Elect
Health Care Value Management                          Private Health Care Systems
United Health                                                      Aetna Health Care
Cigna                                                                   One Health Plan
Mass Health (ONLY Primary Care Clinician Program, NO HMOs through Mass Health, (including Neighborhood Health Boston Medical Center, Fallon, etc.)                    

Primary Care Provider Changes

It is the responsibility of the patient's guardian/parent to ensure that the primary care physician is contracted with their insurance carrier prior to the visit.

Privacy Policy

Commitment

The member practices of Walpole Pediatric Associates are committed to providing you with health care, information and medical services of the highest quality while at the same time protecting your privacy.

Policy

We insist that every staff member observe patient confidentiality, respecting your right to privacy about your medical records and experience with us. We will only share data outside our patient care team for legal purposes or clinical necessity at your direction.

Walpole Pediatric Associates will undertake to honor or exceed the legal and governmental requirements of medical and health information privacy as required by our membership in the Health on the Net Foundation Code of Conduct (HONcode). This includes the recently announced US regulation for the privacy provisions of the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). We will seek to provide information in the clearest possible manner from various medical information sources.