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Pulmonology

Six pulmonologists, spirometry in every clinic, and a sleep study you do in your own bed and post back rather than spending a night in a laboratory.

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  • 6 pulmonologists
  • Spirometry in every clinic
  • Sleep studies at home
A Medice consulting room set up for a respiratory assessment

Overview

What pulmonology here actually involves

Breathlessness and a cough that will not settle are the two reasons most people arrive, and both are worth taking seriously enough to measure rather than guess at. Spirometry is done in the same appointment, in every clinic.

Asthma and COPD are managed as long conditions with a written plan you actually hold — what to take, what to do when it gets worse, and when to stop managing it yourself. Inhaler technique is checked at every visit, because most treatment failure is technique.

Sleep apnea is investigated with a take-home kit rather than an overnight admission. You sleep in your own bed, post the recorder back, and a pulmonologist reads it here.

At a glance

New patient wait
7 days
First appointment
35 minutes
Sleep study report
Within 5 days
Referral needed
No
Available at
All 4 clinics

Conditions

What our pulmonologists treat

Sixteen of the most common reasons people are referred here. The list is not exhaustive — if yours is not on it, call and ask.

  • Asthma
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • Obstructive sleep apnea
  • Chronic cough
  • Breathlessness on exertion
  • Recurrent chest infections
  • Bronchiectasis
  • Pulmonary fibrosis
  • Occupational lung disease
  • Allergic rhinitis with asthma
  • Smoking-related lung damage
  • Pleural effusion
  • Sarcoidosis
  • Nocturnal hypoventilation
  • Pre-operative lung assessment
  • Long COVID breathlessness

Treatments & procedures

Six things that happen in this department

Everything below is done at Medice. Nothing here is sent out to a third party you have never heard of.

Spirometry and reversibility testing
Blowing hard into a tube, then repeating it after an inhaler. Fifteen minutes, done in the same appointment in every clinic, and it is what separates asthma from COPD.
Take-home sleep study
A recorder and a finger probe you collect here and use in your own bed. Post it back and a pulmonologist reads it; the report is with you inside five days.
CPAP set-up and review
Mask fitting, pressure setting and a two-week check, because the first fortnight is when most people give up. Remote monitoring means we can see whether it is working.
Fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO)
A single slow breath into a handheld analyser that measures airway inflammation. Two minutes, and it tells us whether a steroid inhaler is actually doing anything.
Allergy testing for respiratory triggers
Skin-prick testing against the usual suspects, read at twenty minutes. Useful when the pattern of symptoms suggests a trigger you have not identified.
Pulmonary rehabilitation referral
A structured exercise and education course run with the physiotherapy team, and the single intervention with the best evidence in COPD.

Our specialists

Three of the six pulmonologists

Your visit

What to expect, step by step

  1. Before you come

    Bring every inhaler you use, including the ones you have stopped. Do not take a reliever in the four hours before the appointment unless you need it.

  2. Checking in

    Arrive ten minutes early. Check in at the desk or on your phone. Once you are checked in, the average wait is ten minutes.

  3. With the pulmonologist

    Thirty-five minutes including spirometry in the room. You will leave with a written plan rather than a promise of a letter.

  4. After the visit

    Notes, lung function numbers and the plan reach your portal the same day. Your GP gets the same letter automatically, not a summary.

Equipment & technology

Bought instead of a bigger lobby

Everything on this list is ours and sits inside a Medice building. Nothing is hired in for the afternoon, and nothing is sent to a partner site you would have to travel to.

Every trace is read by the pulmonologist who requested it — not a remote reporting service.

Spirometry in all four clinics
Measured in the same appointment, not booked separately
Home sleep study kits
Collected here, used in your own bed, read in-house
FeNO airway inflammation analyser
Two minutes · tells us if the steroid is working
CPAP fitting room with remote monitoring
Beaverton · two-week check built into the start

Pulmonology pricing

What pulmonology costs here

Covered by all six insurers we take. Paying yourself? These are the prices — flat, published, and identical at all four clinics.

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New pulmonology consultation
$235
Spirometry with reversibility
$180
Home sleep study
$395

Same price at Pearl District, Beaverton, Lloyd Center and Sellwood

In network

Providence

Regence

Moda Health

Kaiser Permanente

PacificSource

Aetna

Pulmonology FAQ

The five we are asked most

Anything not answered here, ask when you book — the person on the phone is a nurse, not a call centre.

Do I need a referral to see a pulmonologist?
No. Book directly. If you have had a chest X-ray or lung function test elsewhere, tell us who holds it when you book and we will request it beforehand.
Do I have to spend a night in a sleep laboratory?
No. The study is a take-home kit you use in your own bed, which is both more comfortable and more representative of how you actually sleep.
Is spirometry done at the first appointment?
Yes, in the same room, in every clinic. Measuring at the first visit is what stops asthma and COPD being treated as though they were the same thing.
My inhaler does not seem to help. Is that worth an appointment?
Very much so. Most apparent treatment failure is technique rather than the drug, and that is checked at every visit here.
How long does a sleep study report take?
Five days from the kit coming back. A pulmonologist reads the trace here, and if CPAP is the answer the fitting appointment is offered with the result.

Related services

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