Visiting from Across Maine
Every in-person appointment is at the one South Portland office. Here is how to plan the trip, what to bring, and how care continues once you are home.
Plan for one full visit
The first appointment is the one that has to happen in person: the body composition scan and the full hour with your provider take place at the office. Book it on a day when you are not watching the clock, so the consultation can run its course.
Labs are drawn in our office, or at a partner lab near you. When you book, ask which option fits your schedule, and ask whether a later recheck can be drawn at a partner lab.
In winter, book with the forecast in mind. If a storm closes the roads on the day of your appointment, call the office to move it rather than making the drive.
What to bring
- A list of every medicine, hormone and supplement you take, with doses.
- Any lab results from the past year or two, from any provider.
- Notes on your cycles: when they changed, and how.
- The symptoms you have noticed, including the ones that feel awkward to say out loud.
- Family history of breast cancer, blood clots, stroke, heart attack and gallbladder disease.
- Your questions, written down. A long drive home is a bad time to remember the one you forgot.
From Bangor and the north
Women from Bangor, Brewer and points north have the longest trip on this page. Open the route for the current drive and conditions, and check it again before you leave in winter.
From Lewiston and Auburn
The route from the Twin Cities is below. The same link works from Auburn: change the starting point in Google Maps.
From Augusta and the Kennebec Valley
From the capital region, Waterville or Gardiner, start from Augusta and adjust the origin to your town.
From Brunswick and the Midcoast
Coming from Bath, Rockland or Damariscotta, open the Brunswick route and set your own starting point.
From Biddeford and York County
From Biddeford, Saco, Sanford or the beaches to the south, this route is the place to begin.
From Portsmouth and the New Hampshire Seacoast
New Hampshire women are seen at the same Maine office. The Portsmouth route covers Dover, Exeter and the Seacoast towns once you change the start.
Between visits
Follow-up visits are $275. At each one, your new labs are set beside your own earlier results, so changes are read as your trend rather than against an average.
Virtual visits are available only to established patients in Maine or New Hampshire. That is what makes care practical from the far ends of the state: once you are established, some conversations can happen from home. Questions that come up in between go straight to your care team.
Who can be seen
Med Matrix sees women who live in Maine or New Hampshire and can come to the South Portland office. Living in one of those states is required, including for virtual visits later on.
Travel questions
Can my labs be drawn closer to home?
They can. Labs are drawn in our office, or at a partner lab near you, so a lab draw need not mean the drive to South Portland. The first visit, with the scan and the full hour with your provider, is at the office.
Are follow-up visits virtual?
Some can be, once you are established. Virtual visits are available only to established patients in Maine or New Hampshire. The first visit is always in person in South Portland. Your provider will tell you which follow-ups need you in the room. See cost and travel questions.
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