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About Me & Education
Michelle Minikel, MD, is a board certified physician specializing in Family Medicine. Dr. Minikel believes in attending to the health of individuals in the context of their families, their communities, their values, and their life circumstances. After getting to know a patient, her first goal is to provide education about their health and available tests and treatments in plain, understandable language. Dr. Minikel wants to work together with her patients to improve their health. She doesn't give up easily and asks the same of her patients.
Specialty Areas:
- Complex or multiple chronic diseases
- Low medical literacy
- Obstetrics
- Infants
- Pediatrics
- Spanish speaking patients
Specialty Procedures:
- Prenatal care and normal vaginal delivery
- Circumcision
- Dilation and currettage for miscarriage management
- Skin excisions/biopsies
- Toenail removal
- IUD insertion/removal
- Nexplanon insertion/removal
- Endometrial biopsies
- Trigger point injections
- Joint injections
Education:
- MD/MS, Joint Medical Program at University of California, San Francisco, UC Berkeley, 2002-2007
- Family Medicine Residency, Boise, Idaho, 2007-2010
- Petaluma Health Center, Petaluma, CA, 2011-2015 (outpatient family medicine with obstetrics and deliveries, as well as, hospitalist and skilled nursing facility work)
Personal:
Dr. Minikel is married and has a daughter and a son. In her spare time she enjoys cycling, walking, cooking, and traveling.
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Insurance Types Accepted
- Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield – HMO, PPO, Blue Priority, Medicare Advantage and Medicaid
- Arise Health Plan – Arise Broad Network (HMO/POS) and AboutHealth
- BCBS MI (Upper Peninsula clinics only)
- Care Wisconsin
- Children's Community Health Plan
- Cigna
- Cofinity
- CommonGround Healthcare
- Community Care
- Corvel-Worker's Comp
- Exceedent
- First Health
- Galaxy
- Health Partners - Robin
- Health Payment Systems
- Health Smart
- HealthEOS
- Humana/Choicecare – HMO, PPO and Medicare Advantage
- Independent Care (ICare) - Medicare Advantage
- Managed Health Services-Medicaid
- Medicare
- Molina Healthcare-Medicaid only
- Network Health Plan – Commercial and Medicare Advantage
- PPO Next
- Preferred One
- Security HealthPlan
- Three Rivers Provider Network
- Trilogy – Commercial, Medicaid
- United Healthcare – HMO, PPO, UMR, Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid
- WCA Group Health Trust
- WEA Trust Preferred
- Wisconsin Physician Services (WPS)
- Zelis
