House call doctor in Somerville, NJ
Primary care at your kitchen table in Somerville. No clinic, no waiting room, no travel fee.
Primary care that comes to you in Somerville
Somerville is the county seat and a hub for specialist appointments, which means a lot of our patients here are being seen by three or four doctors who do not talk to each other. Pulling that together is a large part of what we do.
Where Somerville goes for hospital care, and why that matters
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset is in the borough, which makes Somerville the place much of the county comes for specialist appointments. That has a side effect worth naming: patients here often accumulate three or four specialists over a few years, none of whom talks to the others. Pulling that back into one coherent plan, and being the practice that writes to all of them, is a large part of what we do in this town.
The homes we visit in Somerville
A compact borough of older, close-set homes and apartments above the Main Street shops, some of which are reached by a single steep flight of stairs and nothing else. Walkability is genuine here and disappears entirely after a fall.
Life Primary Care is a house call practice based in East Hanover, and Somerville sits inside our regular Somerset County route. A clinician comes to your home with a portable exam kit and your chart already open. A first visit runs 45 to 60 minutes, which is time enough to examine you properly, go through every medication in the house and write a plan your family can actually follow.
We visit private homes, apartments, condominiums, family members' houses, independent living and assisted living residences in Somerville and nearby Raritan, Bridgewater, Manville, Branchburg and Hillsborough.
People look for this under several names: a house call doctor in Somerville, a visiting physician, a mobile doctor, in-home medical care, or simply a doctor who comes to your house. They all describe what we do. Homebound seniors are a large part of the practice, though you do not need to be homebound to be seen.
What we handle at home
Routine primary care and annual physicals, chronic conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart failure and COPD, Medicare Annual Wellness Visits, care in the days after a hospital discharge, dementia and geriatric care, and same-day urgent problems for established patients. We draw blood, run EKGs and arrange mobile imaging without you leaving the house.
After a hospital stay
If you or a relative in Somerville has just been discharged from Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset in Somerville or Morristown Medical Center, the first two weeks are the risky part. We can usually visit within two to three days to reconcile the discharge medication list against what is really in the cabinet and confirm that home health has arrived. We are independent and not affiliated with any hospital system.
Insurance in Somerville
We accept Original Medicare, most Medicare Advantage plans and major commercial insurers, and we bill exactly as a clinic would. There is no charge for coming to Somerville. Call 973-607-4911 and we will check your specific plan before anything is scheduled.
House calls in Somerville: common questions
My father has four different specialists at Somerset. Can you coordinate them?
Yes, and it is one of the most useful things we do. We handle day to day primary care, send our notes to each specialist, and flag it when two prescriptions are working against each other.
We live in a flat above a shop with no lift. Is that a problem?
Not for us. It is often the reason someone stops going out at all, which makes it a good reason to be seen at home.
Do you make house calls in Somerville?
Yes. Somerville is inside our regular Somerset County route and we visit homes, apartments and assisted living residences there. Call 973-607-4911 to book.
Do I have to be homebound to be seen at home in Somerville?
No. You do not need to be homebound for a primary care house call. Many patients simply prefer care that does not cost them half a day.
Do you charge extra to drive to Somerville?
No. There is no travel fee, concierge fee or membership charge. We bill your insurance for the visit exactly as an office would.
Can you draw blood at my home in Somerville?
Yes. We bring phlebotomy, EKG, urine testing and rapid testing with us, and we arrange mobile X-ray and ultrasound when they are needed.
Book a house call in Somerville
Call and speak with a real person. We will confirm your insurance, find a time and come to you.
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