Our Services  

15899 Los Gatos Almaden Rd, #9, Los Gatos, CA 95032           

Tel : 408 3583685   Fax : 408 3583645

Physician Services:


Office in Los Gatos:

As an internal medicine office - we focus on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of adults. 

Expert in Adults : We specialize in adult health care (age 16 to old age)

We care for the whole Patient: We are ready to care for any adult sickness - no matter how common or strange it is. Or how easy or hard it is. 

Internists are sometimes referred to as the "doctor's doctor," because they are often called upon to act as consultants to other physicians to help solve puzzling diagnostic problems. 

We care for the whole patient. We treat a variety of medical conditions (sometimes working together with a specialist as a team) including:

  • Diabetes
  • Blood and Heart Disease
  • Digestion
  • Infection
  • Liver, Kidneys and Rhuematism
  • Cancer
  • Adolescence 
  • Old Age

We provide preventive health-care services like annual exams and vaccinations.


Medical Weight Management Services: American Medical Association has declared Obesity as a disease. Excess weight has adverse effect on health and wellness - including heart disease, diabetes and blood pressure. If you have tried diets and not happy with the results, joining a medically supervised weight loss may help. Our goal is help you to lose weight and keep it off. 

We offer two programs for Medically Supervised Weight Management.

Core Healthy Lifestyle Program : Lose 20-30 lb in 12 weeks . For BMI < 27
This program focuses on diet and lifestyle changes, with a rapid weight loss of 4-10 lbs in first week, followed by 1-2 lbs of weight loss facilitated by group classes focused on nutrition education and behavioral modification. Our own staff has gone through the program and several patients have witness great results in 2013.









OPTIFAST® Weight Loss Program:

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  Weight Loss Program: Designed for BMI > 30, 
OPTIFAST is a comprehensive weight management program that combines lifestyle education and medical monitoring with a meal replacement diet.
 
Although individual results vary, the typical OPTIFAST patient loses over 50 lbs in 18-24 weeks.

 




Resting Metabolic Rate

Your metabolism is total number of Calories burned each day. Even individuals that are similar to each other such as family members can have significant differences. This may explain why weight loss varies among friends and family members participating in same weight loss program. Find yours in a quick 15 minute test.  


Improving Patient Access: Our patients give us highest rating for ease of getting appointment and for spending adequate time with them. Our philosophy is to run our practice in a way that improves patient access; most appointments are available in the same week and a couple of appointments even available same day. We believe in treating you as a whole person, which to us means getting to know you better. You will not feel rushed or feel like a number is the system when you visit our office. 

Quality Service: We listen to our patients for feedback during our interaction in the office as well as through anonymous surveys to continually improve where we can.  

 



Green Initiatives: We have embraced all electronic medical records, e-prescription and green initiatives in our office to reduce or eliminate paper records.  From e-check in to e-prescribing, we use technology to reduce paperwork to focus better on taking care of you.


Hospital Care by Doctor:

Dr Mungekar maintains privileges at  these hospitals. We follow up on our patients who are admitted to these hospitals and at the Mission Oaks Rehab.

Good Samartian Hospital, San Jose


El Camino Hospital of Los Gatos 




Health Insurance Plans:  

See insurance page.

We joined SCCIPA (Santa Clara County IPA) in 2015.

If you are HMO patient through SCCIPA Dr. Mungekar should be your PCP on the card prior to visiting our office.



Covered California PPO Plans

 
Many Covered California PPO Plans have cards that look just like regular PPO plans from respective insurances. 

We ACCEPT only Health Net Covered California Plans

We DO NOT ACCEPT Blue Cross and Blue Shield Covered California Plans

If you are an established Patient of our practice and signed up of a Blue Cross or Blue Shield Covered California PPO plan, please contact our office to see if we can see you on cash basis.


Insurance Plans NOT accepted 

We do not accept :

  • Medi-CAL / Medicaid Plans
  • Covered California Plans for new patients

Medi-CAL patients cannot be seen on Cash Basis