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One of the features of the Qualcomm Premier Plans is a focus on integrated and coordinated care. Your personal physician is instrumental in keeping you and your family healthy by monitoring and encouraging you to keep up with preventive care, and by ensuring that care is coordinated across providers so that you aren’t burdened by duplicate tests or left to make sense of different and potentially conflicting treatment recommendations.

A personal physician specializes in family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology or pediatrics. By having an established relationship with a personal physician, he/she has a comprehensive understanding of your health care needs and objectives and can respond quickly to address new unplanned health issues or incidents.

While Qualcomm Premier Plan members do not need a referral to see a specialist to ensure plan coverage, some specialists may require that you see your personal physician first for any new health concerns for the following reasons:

• Your personal physician will help identify the most suitable specialist for your situation and health needs.
• Seeing your personal physician first can also ensure that any necessary imaging and lab tests are completed prior to seeing the specialist. This will help to avoid delays in care and ensure that the specialist has all the information they need to evaluate your condition at the time of your visit.
• Additionally, seeing your personal physician can often eliminate the need for a specialist at all, as many conditions can be adequately treated by your personal physician. This may help reduce your out-of-pocket costs.