The MaxWell Clinic strives to "Restore and Protect health one Very Important Patient at a time".

We work to make the sick well again by utilizing all avenues of therapy that are safe, effective, cost-efficient, and live-able.  We  proactively guide the healthy patient towards the optimal state of health possible and lengthen our patient's expected health-span. We do this through an extensive individualized risk factor identification process and personalized intervention strategy which will include an ongoing plan of nutrition, exercise, and support.

The MaxWell Clinic is a Proactive Medicine practice - dedicated to improving Quality and Quantity of Life through an integrated approach. We consult in the care of men, women and children.  None of the providers specialize in Hospital medicine and do not see patients in the hospital.  Our goal is to keep you OUT of the hospital. 

We are currently accepting new patients.   See how we partner with patients.

Our typical patient:

Many of our patients have been trying for years to find a health care provider who will listen, and think out of the box.

We believe patients.   Very few are the individuals who want to act sick and really don't want to get better.  Just because individuals have a symptom that is not typical does not mean that person is crazy, it means there is something yet to discover and that the body is trying to get your attention in a way unique to the individual.   While we all must recognize that stress of all types is a major cause of illness - diminishing the individual with a comment that the problem "Is all in your head" rarely helps address the cause of perceptions that could lead to a solution of the symptoms.   Our patients value this recognition that both mind and body are key in the process of health creation.

We feel it is important to invest the time to absorb the patient's condition as a whole.  Our patients recognize it is rare for a person to have a single treat-and-street symptom, and rather common for people to have a constellation of problems that require integrated evaluation and a multi-faceted approach to resolve.   Our patients value the fact that their providers really care that they grow in health.

Many of our patients are battling weight problems.

A large percentage of our patients have tried every diet on the planet, and nothing worked. They lose weight and gain it back, over and over.  Our focus is to find out WHY and create an individualized plan to overcome the obstacle, whether habitual, metabolic, nutritional, or hormonal.

Some of our patients feel rotten, but have been told "All your tests are normal."

"Functional Illness" is what we as doctors call those problems that bother people tremendously, but that the conventional tests we use do not come up as being abnormal.   In the past many people with these problems have been told "it's all in your head" but at the MaxWell Clinic we WELCOME these people, because through the approach of Functional Medicine many of these Quality of Life problems can be helped.

Some of our patients aren't "sick."

A large percentage of our patients aren't "sick," by the classic definition. They simply know that they ought to feel better than they do. They know something is not right, and so far no doctor has been willing (due to tightly held and incomplete beliefs about health, disease or the individual) or able (due to lack of information, training, supportive systems, or integration skills) to sort it out. Many of our patients are referred to us by other physicians and health care providers and have seen many other doctors before arriving at our doors.

Some of our patients are healthy and want to stay that way.

Our expected lifespan has grown tremendously over the years, and with that reality we see a FLOOD of Chronic Disease afflicting people during "The Golden Years."  MUCH OF THIS CAN BE PREVENTED and/or IMPROVED UPON!!!!!   At the MaxWell Clinic we focus on identifying weak links in the chain of your future health and then PROACTIVELY  addressing these issues.

Some of our patients want to maximize their current athletic performance.

Too many people are wasting their health and money on nutritional supplements that are ill advised and worthless.   There are effective methods to increasing muscle mass and strength through customized nutrition and supplementation, but the right amount of the right material at the right time is crucial.   Many parents send their budding athletes to us for sane & effective nutritional and performance counseling.

All of our patients want to control their own health care.

All our patients—all of them—are people who wish to take control of their own health care. They don't want an insurance company clerk, or an HMO desk jockey, dictating "guidelines" to their doctor, or insisting that their doctor follow an insurance company's profit-driven "cookbook" to treat them.

Our patients want personal control of their health care spending.

"Creating Health" and "Treating Disease" are two different beasts.    Most Medical-Treatment Insurance is set up to pay for the treatment of disease - give you pills and do surgery, etc.  At MaxWell Clinic our patients are thankful that we do both of these services and bill the insurance companies as appropriate for Disease Treatment Costs, including most lab tests, office visits, and traditional medical services.  That being said, most often "Health Promotion" or "Creating Health" falls under the category of a non-covered service by insurance carriers, and when those services are included as part of your care (almost always, or else you might as well go to a straight 'script'em & street'em' clinic), there will be additional charges for providing those services.

Preventive health "Ounce of Prevention" is sorely neglected even when it will bring dramatic benefit to your life.   We will help you make wise choices on your health-investment dollars.

We discuss treatment options and costs with patients in an up-front manner.  We don't order tests you don't know about.  We have even developed special arrangements with labs to offer tests at a lessened cost if you pay for them on the day of service.   Your HEALTH is our BUSINESS.

While we will file insurance claims for patients, we participate only with insurance companies and plans that allow us to practice in the best interest of the patient.   We serve many patients that see us "out of Network" - and that actually come out with less total out of pocket expenses than if we had been "in-network".  Please call our office to find out about insurance plan participation.

Understand that Insurance companies are FOR PROFIT businesses, and the CEO must always think about his/her shareholders as well as  the patients they serve.   Because of this the cost of your plan continues to soar as your benefits continue to be cut.   It is time to take your health in your own hands.

Many of our patients are on very high-deductible insurance plans.

Once upon a time, virtually everyone had what was called a Major Medical Plan. You covered your routine health care costs yourself—but when you needed a new knee, your insurance kicked in.

This is the most efficient, cost-limiting, form of health insurance. Compare the average health insurance plan today with your home fire insurance: Do we expect our fire insurance company to pay for the 79-cent batteries for our smoke detectors? Of course not. So why do we expect our health insurance to pay for our birth control pills and our $8 prescriptions? We pay dearly for that.

Many of our patients prefer to pay-as-you-go for routine health care and preventive health care services, and let the insurance kick in for disasters. Like fire insurance.

Medicare is a special situation.   Click here to understand the full story.