What is a referral?
In the United States medical system, sometimes a patient needs a referral from a healthcare provider to schedule an appointment with specific types of additional healthcare provider specialists (for example, dermatologists).
The American Academy of Family Physicians defines a referral as “a request from one physician to another to assume responsibility for management of one or more of a patient’s specific conditions. This represents a temporary or partial transfer of care to another physician for a specific time until resolved, or on an ongoing basis.”
Getting a referral at Husky Health
If you think that you may need a referral to see a specialist outside of Husky Health, or you need to see a specialist that isn’t available at Husky Health, click the button below to schedule an appointment to receive a referral, or ask us any questions that you have. As part of UW Medicine, Husky Health Center is a great place to get a referral to UW Medicine’s excellent specialists.