Resources and Forms

New Patients

Please review and fill out the following forms PRIOR to your initial visit with us at True Physician Care, LLC.  When noted below, you may SKIP the form IF YOU COMPLETE THE ONLINE INTAKE FORM you receive at the time of electronic appointment confirmation. You may submit these forms using the link below, via fax or mail, or you may drop them off to our office.

  • Patient Registration (Skip if completing online intake form linked to appointment confirmation e-mail) [pdf]
  • Medical History (Skip if seen within 3 years) [pdf]
  • HIPAA Privacy Policy (Read-only. Do not return) [pdf]
  • HIPAA Signature Form  [pdf]
  • Telemedicine Consent Form [pdf]
  • Credit card-on-file authorization form [pdf]
  • Medicare Opt-Out Contract (Medicare patients only) [pdf]

Please review the COVID-19 Screening Questionnaire within 24 hours of your scheduled appointment.

  • COVID-19 Screening Questionnaire [pdf]

Current Patients

If you have new contact or insurance information after your initial visit you may update it via the ONLINE INTAKE FORM you receive at the time of electronic appointment confirmation; otherwise, please fill out an updated Patient Registration Form.  If you need to update your credit card information on file, please complete a new authorization form.  You may submit these forms using the link below or bring them to your appointment.

  • COVID-19 Screening Questionnaire [pdf]
    (Within 24 hours of appointment) 
  • Patient Registration (Skip if completing online intake form linked to appointment confirmation e-mail) [pdf]
  • Credit card-on-file authorization form [pdf]
  • Request for medical records [pdf]
Click Here For Records Request Options

Fasting Blood Work

For fasting blood work, please fast for at least 6 hours prior to your appointment. You may have water, black coffee, black tea and take any medications that do not require food. If you eat something light without sugar/high fat, we may still draw your blood and interpret the results accordingly.

For patients who have afternoon appointments, you may be able to have a light breakfast and still fast for 6 hours for your blood work.
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Medical Records Requests

Your health records at True Physician Care are the property of the practice. However, as a patient you are entitled to have a copy for your records or to send to other healthcare providers.  If you would like records sent to another physician or yourself, please complete the Request for Medical Records.  Allow up to 10 business days for your request to be processed.  Your health records may also be downloaded as a PDF from the Patient Fusion portal.

Per Maryland law, the copy fee for electronic medical records will be $0.76 per page up to a maximum of $80.00 per request, plus the cost of actual postage. Requests from insurance companies, attorneys, or other physicians are subject to the same copy fee as well as a preparation fee of $22.88 and actual cost of postage.  Your records may be delivered via secure email or encrypted thumb drive.  An invoice will be sent to the person or entity requesting the records and records will be sent upon payment.  

Please note that for patients who were patients at Bethesda Physicians prior to seeing Dr. Hwang at True Physician Care, your records prior to September 30, 2022 are also being stored at Desert River Solutions until September 30, 2027.  Therefore, you have the option of requesting your medical records predating October 1, 2022 from Desert River Solutions.
 
  • requests@DesertRiverSolutions.com
  • 480-577-3150 [Telephone]
  • 520-214-0068 [Fax]

November/December 2025 Announcements
For Current Patients

PLEASE READ UPDATES BELOW:
 
No later than January 1, 2026, our EMR will discontinue the Patient Fusion portal and switch to FollowMyHealth from Veradigm, a more robust portal system. We plan to complete our migration in mid-December (tentatively December 19th). Once we complete our migration, any patient that has enrolled in the Patient Fusion portal or who has previously received an invitation to the Patient Fusion portal will be automatically sent an invitation to FollowMyHealth via email. If you wish to continue to have portal access, please follow the instructions from the FollowMyHealth email once you receive it. If you do not receive an email invitation by January 1, you are welcome to request one from Tanya or Dr. Hwang after that date. While we also will learn more about what the FollowMyHealth portal features will include, we anticipate the following:
  • Two-factor authentication for increased security
  • Ability to send documents to patients
  • Ability for patients to view lab and test results and clinical summaries
  • Note that we do NOT plan to use the Patient self-scheduling feature offered by FollowMyHealth for appointments. That is because Dr. Hwang and Tanya customize our schedule to accommodate our patient needs (i.e. who needs extra time, when do we squeeze in a pre-op or nurse visit, etc.).
  • Old portal message history from Patient Fusion will NOT migrate to FollowMyHealth. If there are secure messages in the Patient Fusion portal which you would like to refer to in the future, please consider copying or taking a screenshot of those messages for your records. 
Our Thanksgiving closure of the office this year will be from Wednesday, November 26 through Friday, November 28.
 
Tanya will be away from December 8-12 and will also be out of the office on Friday, December 26.
 
Our office will close at 3 pm on Wednesday, December 24 (Christmas Eve) and Wednesday, December 31 (New Year’s Eve).
 

In December, we will also send out invoices for the 2026 Annual Administrative Fee. The Admin Fee will increase from $240 to $250 this year.  You may use the link contained in the invoice to pay your fee electronically if you prefer to pay via credit card. We kindly ask that the fee be paid by January 31, 2026. Please reach out to Tanya if you have any questions or specific requests regarding the Admin Fee.

Meet Our Staff

Tanya Alston, MA

Tanya Alston has been working with Dr. Hwang as a medical assistant for much of Dr. Hwang’s medical career. Patients appreciate her warm personality, professionalism, patient-centered focus and adept technical skills.