Doctor Meyer practices occupational and pulmonary medicine. His office is located in the St. George Medical Building at the address below. He provides complete pulmonary consultations that include chest x-rays, pulmonary function tests, electrocardiograms, and arterial blood gas and theophylline analyses.

Doctor Meyer maintains hospital privileges at Mercy San Juan Hospital located across the street from his office. This medical community has the second largest concentration of physicians in the Sacramento area. There are over 300 physicians located in eight major office buildings in the surrounding area, and the hospital has a medical staff of over 600 doctors. Doctor Meyer admits his seriously ill patients to this hospital, where he performs various procedures that may include thoracentesis, pleural biopsy, and/or bronchoscopy.

Doctor Meyer accepts payment for services with current Medicare, MediCal, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, and other major insurance PPO (Preferred Provider Organizations) coverage. With the appropriate identification, he will also accept cash, checks, and major credit cards. Most of his patients are too ill for bare-bones HMO type insurance plans. As you know, these premium structures are based on an outpatient medical budget of approximately $40 a month of which the managed care organization takes $4, leaving $36 a month or $432 a year. The first visit/consultation along with the pulmonary function test, chest x-ray, electrocardiogram, and a minimal laboratory screen exceeds this cost. Almost all consults would also exceed this amount. Hence, one additional consult on every patient would give him a 200% profile and elimination from any HMO program. The HMO plan of a patient with a serious illness must be upgraded to a PPO plan in order to provide the usual standard of care we have come to expect in this country. Of course your Medicare card, unencumbered, exceeds all PPO plans.    

Doctor Meyer also conducts drug studies in his office on patients that are willing to participate and who suffer with asthma, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema. The Phase III studies are conducted on new drugs just prior to release to the general public. The Phase IV studies are conducted for long-term safety and continue after the release of the drug. The pharmaceutical company pays for the participant's study medications, chest x-rays and pulmonary function tests throughout  the course of the study. The study may last for a period of six months or extend to two years. This affords many patients essentially free care by moving from one study to the next. Our current drug study involves a drug that we did research on during our training in the 1960's. It has shown great promise for our asthma patients on multiple drugs and inhalers. If you are interested in participating, feel free to contact our office. 

Del Meyer, MD
6620 Coyle Avenue, Suite 122
Carmichael, California   95608