For Referring Physicians
Referring a Patient
Thank you for trusting Independent Lung & Sleep Medicine Associates with your patients. Our board-certified pulmonary and sleep medicine physicians and nurse practitioners see patients at three Brevard County offices: Melbourne, Suntree/Viera and Merritt Island.
Fax referrals to 321-727-7664 or call 321-727-7992.
Referred patients are seen within 2 weeks. Let us know if a patient needs to be seen sooner.
Sending a Referral
Please include with the referral
- Patient demographics and insurance information, and any required authorization
- Reason for referral and the clinical question
- Recent office notes and medication list
- Imaging reports (and images or CDs when available), especially chest CTs
- Prior pulmonary function tests, sleep studies, echocardiograms and pertinent labs
Services we provide
- Consultation for COPD, asthma, ILD, pulmonary hypertension, lung nodules, chronic cough and dyspnea
- Pulmonary function testing and 6-minute walk tests
- Bronchoscopy, EBUS and navigational bronchoscopy, endobronchial valves and right heart catheterization
- Lung cancer screening and nodule management
- Sleep medicine: home and in-lab sleep studies, CPAP/BiPAP management, insomnia, narcolepsy and more
For urgent clinical questions, call the office and ask to speak with the on-call physician.