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“I now have hope of being medicine free… ”
-Ruthan May
“Without any doubt. Without any hesitation. Functional medicine is the way to go.”
-Kurth Meeks
MISSION STATEMENT
Using the 6 Steps to Wellness, We Unlock the Health Potential in an Individual by Providing Cutting-Edge, Natural Healthcare Without Judgment in a Safe, Caring Environment.
What is Functional Medicine?
Functional Medicine addresses the underlying causes of disease, seeing the whole person, and not just an isolated set of symptoms.
Functional Medicine physicians spend time with their patients, listening to their histories and looking at the interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that can influence long-term health and complex, chronic disease.
Functional Medicine then utilizes nutrition, lifestyle, and plant medicines/nutraceuticals to restore balance to the body, so that interferences to the body’s self-healing capacities are reduced or eliminated. And in doing so, functional medicine allows for “personalized” medicine and empowers patients to take an active role in their own health.
The Functional Medicine approach to patient care is considered the future model for healthcare destined to transform the traditional “disease-centric” model to one where scientific principles and extensive patient evaluation are combined to create a strategy capable of improving current health and laying a foundation for health and vitality lasting throughout the patient’s life span.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you accept insurance?
Our office does not bill insurance. You may pay by cash, check, credit card (we do not accept American Express), FSA or HSA debit cards.
We do not participate with Medicare, nor do we bill Medicare for any services rendered. Patients cannot submit superbills to Medicare for possible reimbursement.
Why don’t you accept insurance?
When providers participate with insurance carriers, they enter into a contract that allows insurance companies to decide which services can be provided. This limits the type and/or quality of care you may need. We do not believe this allows us to create the individualized plan of care that is necessary in a functional medicine approach.
Lab Services
Most laboratory services provided by LabCorp can be billed directly to your insurance plan unless you don’t have out-of-network coverage. Some specialty labs may not be covered. It is the responsibility of the patient to verify this coverage regarding deductibles and reimbursement.
For those who do not have insurance coverage for their blood labs, we have partnered with LabCorp and negotiated a lower lab cost for our routine blood work labs. This gives us the ability to offer a more comprehensive work up without concern for denial of coverage. We also provide an in-office phlebotomist for ease and convenience of blood draws.
Can you be my Primary Care Provider?
The doctors at Wilmington Functional Medicine provide functional medicine consults and visits only and are not to be considered primary care providers. We recommend having a primary care physician for well/sick visits, physicals and urgent care needs.
What We Offer
Providers Who Listen
Maximizing Health
Treatment Plan Tailored to Individual
Who We Are
Dr. Hilary Rutledge
DC, DABCI
Dr. Matthew Bradshaw
DC, AFMCP
Kaitlin Neyland
IIN
Serving the greater Wilmington area for over a decade, Wilmington Functional Medicine provides all-natural, non-pharmaceutical alternatives to patients and their family members who are frustrated with being sick and “Traditional Medicine’s” approach to their ailments.
Led by Dr. Hilary Rutledge who has been practicing for over 20 years, Wilmington Functional Medicine aims to serve the health needs of all those in our community who are sick or “sick of being sick.” This office is ideal for those sick people that have not responded to traditional medicine or for those that desire a more natural approach.
Functional Medicine then utilizes nutrition, lifestyle, and plant medicines/nutraceuticals to restore balance to the body, so that interferences to the body’s self-healing capacities are reduced or eliminated. And in doing so, functional medicine allows for “personalized” medicine and empowers patients to take an active role in their own health.
The Functional Medicine approach to patient care is considered the future model for healthcare destined to transform the traditional disease-centric model to one where scientific principles and extensive patient evaluation are combined to create a strategy capable of improving current health and laying a foundation for health and vitality lasting throughout the patient’s life span.
What to Expect From Us.
Most people who have not worked with a functional medicine doctor find the process more comprehensive than other experiences. It is essential to the doctor to gather extensive information that is used to determine the underlying imbalances and influences that are a unique combination of genetic, environmental, lifestyle and psychosocial factors. These unique factors in each person influence and create disease, symptoms, or dysfunction. The Doctor uses the information gathered along with comprehensive laboratory testing to customize a personalized, science-based, natural treatment plan interventions to reestablish the body’s self-healing capacities and bring balance and functionality to the body’s systems.
Wilmington Functional Medicine
