Effective April 1, 2024, Massachusetts insurance companies are required to cover an annual mental health wellness exam with the goal to improve patient access to mental and behavioral health care. Massachusetts is the second state in the nation to offer this exam! A behavioral health wellness exam is in addition to your annual well child exam and focuses on the emotional well-being and development of pediatric patients of all ages. For example, an adolescent behavioral health exam may focus on the stress of school, extracurricular activities, and social media pressures. A behavioral health exam for a younger child may focus on social and developmental progress.To take advantage of this new service, please call our office. For patients with out of state insurance, we encourage you to call your insurance company to determine if this is a covered service and/or if there is any out-of-pocket expense.

Weston Pediatrics has recently acquired Mill Brook Pediatrics in Sudbury! We are delighted to be able to extend our services to a broader geographic location and look forward to continuing to care for our patients and families.

Our Weston Providers will be seeing patients in both Sudbury and Weston locations.

Please help us efficiently help you meet deadlines for forms to be submitted. Please remember to bring all forms that require your primary care provider’s signature with you at the time of your physical. This will save you time and possibly the cost of a sports physical that is not paid for by your insurance provider.

Forms can be requested or sent to the office several ways – drop off, faxed, mailed, or by uploading using Patient Gateway with instructions on how you would like the completed form delivered. Unfortunately, Patient Gateway does not have the capability for forms to be sent back to you.

Forms may take 5–7 business days to complete.

Forms should be filled out as much as possible prior to being given to the office or they will be returned to the sender. The office will fill out the clinical sections of the forms.

Forms should have a copy of the last physical attached (if needed).

• College forms usually require the office to fill out information and a provider’s signature. Please attach a copy of your latest health form and fill out as much information as you can.
• Most school, camp, and sport forms may only require a copy of the latest health form to be attached. If this is not the case, please attach a copy of your latest health form and fill out as much information as you can.

We at Weston Pediatric Physicians (WPP) want to express our deep sadness for the tragedies related to racism, hatred, and violence that disproportionately affect people of color in our country. We support raising awareness that such tragedies can have on the health and wellbeing of our children, their families and the community at large.

We at WPP embrace all who come to us for care, regardless of ethnic or racial background, by providing a medical home that is both welcoming and culturally sensitive. We aim to work together as partners with patients and their families to promote their health and wellbeing and to foster a community of tolerance and respect for each other. More than ever, the emotional health and wellbeing of each and every one of us is vital, especially for our kids.

Please click here for information on how to talk with your kids about these difficult issues.

We recognize that it is sometimes a challenge to schedule appointments to meet our patients’ various time schedules. In order to better accommodate your requests, we are asking that you notify the office as soon as possible regarding appointments that need to be cancelled or rescheduled. This will allow us time to fill that vacancy with someone on our waiting list.

Because of the frequency of missed appointments there will be a $50.00 charge if the office is not notified at least 24 hours in advance.

Thank you for helping us to provide better access to our practice.

Sincerely,

The Physicians of Weston Pediatrics

Despite the popularity of use for treatment of the common cold, over the counter cough and cold preparations containing antihistamine and decongestant have been shown NOT to be helpful, and in some cases, harmful to children, especially those less than 6 years of age. For this reason, these products are no longer available over the counter.

Uncomplicated upper respiratory infections have been shown to resolve equally well with symptomatic treatments such as saline nasal drops, humidified air and encouraging reasonable fluid intake.

Additionally, recent studies of the use of codeine for cough suppression indicate that there is no data to support its use as a cough suppressant in pediatric patients.

Therefore, WPP does NOT recommend the use of these medications for the treatment of common cold symptoms (in children less than 6 years of age) and there is little evidence of their effectiveness in older children.