Vasectomy in
Lake City, Florida:
(serving Jacksonville, Gainesville, Tallahassee & Valdosta) |
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Comprehensive Pain Management of North Florida
(the office of Yili Zhou, MD)
Vasectomy at a Pain Management Clinic?
Don't worry! You won't need Dr. Zhou's services!
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Comprehensive Pain
Management (CPM) office in Lake
City is one of Dr. Doug Stein's established
sites for vasectomy services. Dr.
Yili Zhou owns the
facility and is kind enough to allow Dr. Stein to use
it
periodically to make low-cost
vasectomy services available
to men in North Florida and South Georgia. Lake
City is less than one hour from Jacksonville and Valdosta and about
1.5 hours from Tallahassee. The fee is
$490, cash, check, Visa
or MasterCard.
A
deposit of $100 is required to be scheduled (see below).
Friday
vasectomy dates are listed in our Outfield Schedule
Page.
The counseling process can be done online by (1) reviewing
Dr. Stein's vasectomy page, (2) viewing the
online counseling video, and
(3) reading the vasectomy info sheet (this is a PDF file viewable with Acrobat Reader®, available here as
a free download if you don't already have a copy of Acrobat Reader® on your
computer), which you will be asked to sign before
your procedure.
So only one visit is required, but you will have Dr. Stein's
office, home, and cell phone numbers so that you can always reach him if
you have questions after your procedure. You will also be given a mailer,
so that you can send a semen sample to Dr.
Stein's Tampa office 8 weeks after your vasectomy to be sure
that your semen is sperm-free.
We also strongly encourage you to pre-register on our
On-line Vasectomy Registration
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The CPM
office is located in Perimeter Park, the entry to which is on
State Road 47 just south
of downtown Lake City.
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440 SW Perimeter Glen
Lake City, Florida 32025 |
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Directions:
From the east
(e.g. Jacksonville), take I-10 west to
Exit 303, At the end of the
exit ramp, zero your trip odometer as you turn left (south) onto
US 441 (Marion
Avenue). Drive 3.0 miles and turn right on NW Long Street. Drive
only 0.1 mile to NW Main Boulevard (US 41). Turn left and take that south to
the SR 47 cutoff (purple dot on map), at which point your odometer
will read 5.2 miles. If the detour is still in effect because of
construction, continue south on US-41 until your odometer reads 5.6
miles. Turn right on Bascom-Norris Drive
(Road), and at 5.7 miles, turn left (south) on State Road
47. At 6.1 miles on your trip odometer you will arrive at Perimeter
Park on the left side. The CPM office
is toward the back of the office park (it's very new and many lots
are still empty).
From the north
(e.g. Valdosta), take I-75 south to
Exit 427. Travel east on
US 90
0.8 miles to Bascom Norris Road. Turn right and follow
Bascom Norris
Road 2.4 miles to State Road 47. Turn right, travel 0.35 miles south
and Perimeter Park will be on the left side.
From the west
(e.g. Tallahassee), take I-10 east to
Exit 301, then
US 41 south
through downtown Lake City. Four and one-half miles south of
Exit
301, take the
right-hand fork onto State Road 47 (purple dot on map). From there, Perimeter Park is
0.8 miles south on the left side (if construction still requires a
detour, see above). The CWH office is toward the back
of the office park (it's very new and many lots are still empty).
Alternatively (and perhaps easier because it avoids downtown
traffic), take I-10 to
I-75 south and get off at
Exit 427. Go east
on US-90 0.8 miles to
Bascom Norris Road. Turn right and follow
Bascom Norris Road 2.4 miles to State Road 47. Turn right, travel
0.35 miles south and Perimeter Park will be on the left side.
From the south
(e.g. Gainesville), take I-75 north to
Exit 423. Take State Road 47
north 2.8 miles. Just beyond Michigan Street, you will see the sign
for Perimeter Park on the right side. The CPM office is toward the
back of the office park (it's very new and many lots are still
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Driving south on Main
Boulevard (US 41), the turn onto State Road 47 is just beyond St. Margarets Road
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View of the
entrance to Perimeter Park as you approach
from the north. |
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View of the
entrance to Perimeter Park as you approach from the south. |
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If you get lost and need help,
please call the Comprehensive Pain Management at 386-719-9663 or Dr. Stein's
cell phone at 813-390-3032. |
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To schedule, please call Dr. Stein's
office at 813-972-1365
or toll-free
866-827-8463.
Staff is available to take your call between 9:00 and
6:00, M-F. During other hours,
or if you get a recording because someone else is on the line, you may leave a
message and his staff will return your call. They can also answer any questions
that you may still have about the Gentle Touch® (no-needle
and no-scalpel) Vasectomy after reading about the
procedure in the Vasectomy Page of vasweb.com. Again, a
deposit of $100 is required to be scheduled.
The deposit is fully
refundable until 7 calendar
days prior to the appointed vasectomy date,
non-refundable
thereafter for either
cancellation or postponement.
The deposit can be paid during
online pre-registration by providing a VISA/MasterCard
number, or by
mailing a check or money order payable to Douglas G. Stein, MD to
his Tampa office (Douglas G. Stein, MD, PA; 3000 E Fletcher Avenue; Suite
330; Tampa, FL 33613). The balance of the fee ($390)
is due on the day of the vasectomy, payable by
cash or check to Dr. Stein. While we cannot accept credit cards at CPM,
you may pay the balance with Visa/MasterCard by calling Dr. Stein's Tampa
office (813-972-1365) 1-2 days prior to the procedure.
If your vasectomy is covered
by an
insurance company with which Dr. Stein is a contracted
provider, your deposit will be returned to you when we are paid by
your insurance company. Itemized and properly coded receipts
are provided, and these may be submitted to insurance companies with
which Dr. Stein is not a contracted provider in an attempt to
get reimbursement or credit toward your deductible. To learn whether
your insurance company will cover a vasectomy at this site, please
call your carrier and ask the 5 questions listed
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When you arrive at the
Lake City location, you will be asked to provide demographic and health history
information as you are at any doctor's office. You may now register online
before your visit. The benefits are numerous and listed in our
On-line Registration Page.
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Financial Aid
Medicaid and Medicaid HMO patients are accepted with
proper referral, but 2 visits are required to allow for the mandatory 30-day
interval (required by Medicaid) between signing your consent and having your
vasectomy.
Many private insurance plans cover vasectomy.
If you have insurance, call your carrier and ask the questions listed
here. Then call Dr. Stein's office
(813-972-1365 or 866-827-8463) to see if they can accept payment from your carrier.
If you have no health insurance (Medicaid or
private) and your income is low, you may
qualify for financial aid under a federal program
called Title 10, administered by many of Florida's county health
departments. The Columbia County Health Department has a Title 10 vasectomy program.
Financial screening is done by appointment. Please call the Health
Department at (386) 758-1068. |
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