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Pre-Adoption Medical Services


Special Needs Consultations

Do you currently need to fill out a special needs checklist with your adoption agency? This checklist includes special needs that you are able to handle upon adoption. We want to help you understand the care that will be needed for those special needs, what specialty doctors the child may need to see, and what kind of long-term care the child may need if you purse adopting the child. Special needs consultations are $200 and consist of a phone consultation that last about an hour with one of our doctors. Please give us a call at 205-638-6964 to schedule a special needs consultation with us.


Pre-Adoption Medical Services

A pre-adopt medical review helps to interpret the medical, social, and developmental information provided by your agency regarding a child you may want to pursue for adoption. These pieces of information can come in the form of documents, photos, and videos. Our physicians will evaluate all of the information available on the child. As a part of our comprehensive health care center, we have the ability to access subspecialist for added resources when looking a child's file. These could consist of experts in genetics, neurology, cardiology, and others. Once the comprehensive review is completed, she will provide counsel on known diagnoses as well as recommendations for additional information needed.

A review of your child's file is typically completed within 3 business days of receiving the complete file. Once completed, you will have a phone consultation with the physician to discuss findings and answer any questions. We also have a 24 hour expedited review option for an additional fee, should you need a review quickly (1 business day turnaround time).

In addition to the review, our On-Call and Prescription Services are included in the fee. We will call in recommended prescriptions to your pharmacy for your child's use while in country. We will also provide you with our physician's "on-call" cell phone number that can be used while you are traveling abroad (messages left are typically returned within 24 hours).

Fee covers:

  • $550 Initial Pre-Adoption Medical Review (3 business day turnaround time) 
  • Or $650 Expedited Medical Review (1 business day turnaround time)

*Updated documents, photos, and videos received after the initial Pre-Adoption Medical Review are included in the pre-adoption medical review fee
 

 $550 Initial Pre-Adoption Medical Review / $650 Expedited (24 hour) Review.

"Blind Referral" Reviews

There are some countries that provide little to no information on a child prior to your travel overseas. In these situations, it is still possible to have a pre-adoption medical review on the information you receive once in country. We recommend that you contact us early in the process to arrange for these services. The services and fees are the same as a traditional pre-adopt review.

Pre-adopt Service Form (PDF)
Pre-Adoption Consent Form (PDF)
Initial Intake Form (PDF)
Email Consent Form (PDF)

Please complete the forms above and email the completed forms to adoption@uabmc.edu. In the email, please also include any medical documents, pictures, or videos that you have received from your adoption agency on the child that you are planning to adopt so that we can review the information with you. After you have emailed us these forms, our clinic coordinator will give you a call to take your payment for your pre-adoption medical review.