For Referring Providers
Partnering with Referring Providers
Since 1996, Retina Associates of South Texas has provided medical and surgical retina care to patients throughout San Antonio, Laredo, New Braunfels, and the surrounding region. Our practice is built on long-term relationships, both with our patients and with the providers who refer them: optometrists, ophthalmologists, primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other clinicians.
Every referral is reviewed the same day it is received and scheduled according to clinical need.
Urgent referrals
Please call our office rather than using the online form, and we will arrange for the patient to be seen the same day. Having the patient’s demographics, insurance, and reason for referral available will help us schedule quickly.
Our Approach
How We Work with Referring Providers
We believe retina care is best delivered through personal relationships. Our physicians know their patients, and they know the providers who refer them.
Direct communication with our physicians
Our physicians communicate with referring providers directly. When you submit a referral, please include a mobile number. Your patient’s retina specialist may text or call you with significant findings, surgical plans, or changes in treatment, and a written summary follows every visit.
The same physician at every visit
Each patient is followed by the same retina specialist from the first visit onward. Continuity allows our physicians to know each patient’s history in detail, and gives patients a consistent relationship with the doctor responsible for their care.
Your patient remains your patient
We provide the retinal care your patient needs and keep you informed throughout. When retinal care is complete or the condition is stable, patients return to you for their ongoing care.
Independent and physician-owned
Retina Associates of South Texas is independent of private equity and corporate ownership. Clinical decisions are made by the physicians caring for the patient, and the relationships we build with referring offices are maintained by those same physicians.
Referral Process
How to Refer
Referrals may be submitted online, by fax, or by phone. All referrals are reviewed the same day and scheduled according to clinical need. Including recent clinical notes and imaging helps our physicians prepare for the visit.
Online
Submit patient, insurance, and clinical information, and attach notes or imaging, through our secure referral form.
Refer a PatientFax
- San Antonio and New Braunfels
- 210-615-8505
- Laredo
- 956-722-5250
Phone
- San Antonio and New Braunfels
- 210-615-7600
- Laredo
- 956-722-5200
Our Physicians
Fellowship-Trained Retina Specialists
Five retina specialists, trained at nationally recognized fellowship programs, providing the full range of medical and surgical retina care.
Subspecialty Care
The Full Scope of Retina
In addition to the common retinal conditions, our physicians manage disease that requires specialized expertise not widely available in the region.
- Pediatric retina and retinopathy of prematurity
- Inherited retinal disease
- Uveitis and ocular inflammatory disease
- Ocular oncology
- Complex vitreoretinal surgery, including retinal detachment, macular hole, and subretinal hemorrhage
- Macular degeneration, diabetic eye disease, and retinal vascular disease
Clinical Research
Access to Advanced Therapies
Retina Associates of South Texas has participated in clinical trials for nearly three decades, including pivotal studies such as ANCHOR and HAWK that helped establish today’s standard of care for macular degeneration.
Our ongoing research, including trials of gene therapy, gives patients access to investigational treatments before they are widely available. Newly approved therapies are adopted into clinical practice as soon as they become available.
If you believe a patient may be a candidate for a clinical trial, please note this in your referral.
Insurance
We participate with a broad range of insurance plans, including Medicare, Medicaid, and most major commercial carriers, so that patients throughout South Texas have access to specialty retina care.
Languages
English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Vietnamese are spoken within our practice.
Refer a Patient
Referrals are reviewed the same day. For urgent cases, please call 210-615-7600.