UChicago Medicine Medical Group
Janet Vokoun Starck, MD
Janet Vokoun Starck, MD
UChicago Medicine Medical Group
Clinical Associate of Medicine
Specialties
- Palliative Medicine
Locations
- Harvey - Ingalls Memorial
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Janet Vokoun Starck, MD, is a board-certified hospice and palliative medicine expert who specializes in supportive care for patients with serious illnesses. Dr. Starck’s expertise includes treating patients who suffer from debilitating chronic disorders and terminal conditions. In her practice, she focuses on supporting her patients’ values, needs and priorities throughout their diagnosis and treatment, as well as offering assistance in advanced care planning.
Dr. Starck provides comprehensive and compassionate care to patients coping with disease progression and worsening symptoms that impair normal activities and reduce quality of life, such as pain, shortness of breath, weight loss, insomnia and more. Taking a holistic approach that forms a partnership between Dr. Starck and her patients and their families, she delivers treatment plans designed to alleviate distress and/or discomfort in order to meet her patients’ overall goals.
Dr. Starck provides comprehensive and compassionate care to patients coping with disease progression and worsening symptoms that impair normal activities and reduce quality of life, such as pain, shortness of breath, weight loss, insomnia and more. Taking a holistic approach that forms a partnership between Dr. Starck and her patients and their families, she delivers treatment plans designed to alleviate distress and/or discomfort in order to meet her patients’ overall goals.
Specialties
Areas of Expertise
- End-of-Life Care
- Palliative Medicine
- Shortness of Breath
- Symptom Management in Advanced Illnesses
Practicing Since
- 2016
Languages Spoken
- English
Medical Education
- American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine
Internship
- University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
Residency
- University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
Fellowship
- The University of Chicago Medical Center
Memberships & Medical Societies
- American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
- American College of Physicians
Insurance
- Aetna Better Health *see insurance page
- Aetna HMO (specialists only)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO
- BCBS Blue Precision HMO (specialists only)
- BCBS HMO (HMOI) (specialists only)
- BCBS Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO
- BCBS PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna POS
- Cigna PPO
- CountyCare *see insurance page
- Humana Medicare Advantage Choice PPO
- Humana Medicare Advantage Gold Choice PFFS
- Humana Medicare Advantage Gold Plus HMO
- Medicare
- Multiplan PPO
- PHCS PPO
- United Choice Plus POS/PPO
- United Choice HMO (specialists only)
- United Options (PPO)
- United Select (HMO & EPO) (specialists only)
- United W500 Emergent Wrap
- University of Chicago Health Plan (UCHP)
Our list of accepted insurance providers is subject to change at any time. You should contact your insurance company to confirm UChicago Medicine participates in their network before scheduling your appointment. If you have questions regarding your insurance benefits at UChicago Medicine, please contact our financial counseling team at OPSFinancialCounseling@uchospitals.edu.
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Some of our physicians and health professionals collaborate with external pharmaceutical, medical device, or other medical related entities to develop new treatments and products to improve clinical outcomes for patients. In some instances, the physician has ownership interests in the external entity and/or is compensated for advising or speaking about the entity’s products or treatments. These payments may include compensation for consulting and speaking engagements, equity, and/or royalties for products invented by our physicians. To assure objectivity and integrity in patient care, UChicago Medicine requires all physicians and health professionals to report their relationships and financial interests with external entities on an annual basis. This information is used to review relationships and transactions that might give rise to potential financial conflicts of interest, and when considered to be significant a management plan to mitigate any biases is created.
If you are a patient at UChicago Medicine and would like more information about your physician’s external relationships, please talk with your physician. You may also visit the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/ . CMS Open Payments is a national disclosure program that promotes a more transparent and accountable health care system. It houses a publicly accessible database of payments that reporting entities, including drug and medical device companies, make to covered recipients like physicians and hospitals.
Information in the CMS Open Payments database could potentially contain inaccurately reported and out of date payment information. All information is open to personal interpretation, if there are questions about the data, patients and their advocates should speak directly to their health care provider for a better understanding.
Some of our physicians and health professionals collaborate with external pharmaceutical, medical device, or other medical related entities to develop new treatments and products to improve clinical outcomes for patients. In some instances, the physician has ownership interests in the external entity and/or is compensated for advising or speaking about the entity’s products or treatments. These payments may include compensation for consulting and speaking engagements, equity, and/or royalties for products invented by our physicians. To assure objectivity and integrity in patient care, UChicago Medicine requires all physicians and health professionals to report their relationships and financial interests with external entities on an annual basis. This information is used to review relationships and transactions that might give rise to potential financial conflicts of interest, and when considered to be significant a management plan to mitigate any biases is created.
If you are a patient at UChicago Medicine and would like more information about your physician’s external relationships, please talk with your physician. You may also visit the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/ . CMS Open Payments is a national disclosure program that promotes a more transparent and accountable health care system. It houses a publicly accessible database of payments that reporting entities, including drug and medical device companies, make to covered recipients like physicians and hospitals.
Information in the CMS Open Payments database could potentially contain inaccurately reported and out of date payment information. All information is open to personal interpretation, if there are questions about the data, patients and their advocates should speak directly to their health care provider for a better understanding.