ONE PRACTICE, EVERY PIECE OF THE PUZZLE
Consolidating Complex Care Into One Center of Excellence
THE PROBLEM
Care Split Across Multiple Specialties
ENT for the sinuses. Dermatology for the skin. Pulmonology for the lungs. An ambulatory infusion center. A regional OIT program. Each with its own intake, medical record system, patient portal and team.
THE RESULT
Every Piece, Right Here In One Place
Nine services and programs below — core and advanced — delivered here instead of across multiple referrals and waiting rooms.
SERVICE
ORDINARILY REQUIRES
AT KAUFMAN ALLERGY
Patch testing
Referral to a Dermatology Practice
Performed in our office
Penicillin allergy evaluation & challenge
Rarely offered outside a specialist or hospital setting
Performed in our office, with daily availability
Nasal endoscopy
Referral to ENT
Performed in our office
Complete pulmonary function testing
Referral to Pulmonology
Performed in our office, with direct impact on clinical care
Remote asthma monitoring
Coordinated across separate apps and providers, if at all
Built into care between visits, reviewed by your care team
Immunoglobulin replacement therapy
Managed independently at home after initial training
Coming soon, in our office, where our team administers the care
Oral immunotherapy for food allergy
Referral to an outside medical center with a long wait list
Coming soon, in our office
Patch Testing
Ordinarily requires
Referral to a Dermatology Practice
At Kaufman Allergy
Performed in office
Penicillin allergy evaluation & challenge
Ordinarily requires
Rarely offered outside a specialist or hospital setting
At Kaufman Allergy
Performed in our office, with daily availability
Nasal endoscopy
Ordinarily requires
Referral to ENT
At Kaufman Allergy
Performed in our office
Complete pulmonary function testing
Ordinarily requires
Referral to Pulmonology
At Kaufman Allergy
Performed in our office, with direct impact on clinical care
Remote asthma monitoring
Ordinarily requires
Coordinated across separate apps and providers, if at all
At Kaufman Allergy
Built into care between visits, reviewed by your care team
Immunoglobulin replacement therapy
Ordinarily requires
Managed independently at home after initial training
At Kaufman Allergy
Coming soon, in our office, where our team administers the care
Oral immunotherapy for food allergy
Ordinarily requires
Referral to an outside medical center with a long wait list
At Kaufman Allergy
Coming soon, in our office
Sking Prick Allegry Testing
AVAILABLE NOW
For Environmental, Food & Contact Allergens
Find the Trigger, Not Just Treat the Symptom
Skin prick testing exposes the skin to small amounts of suspected allergens — pollen, dust mites, animal dander, mold, and food — and reads the reaction directly, giving concrete answers about what’s actually driving symptoms instead of guessing from a list of possibilities.
The appointment runs about 30 minutes: roughly 15 minutes for the test itself, plus time to read the reaction. Depending on insurance, it may be done as part of the initial visit or scheduled as its own appointment. Patients need to stop taking antihistamines beforehand — specific timing depends on the medication, and instructions are provided before the appointment.
Why Skin Testing, When It’s an Option
Many primary care visits start and end with a blood allergy panel, with more detailed testing deferred to a specialist referral. Skin prick testing happens directly in this office, with results read the same visit rather than waiting on a lab.
When a patient is able to remain off antihistamines prior to the visit, skin testing is generally the preferred method: it shows a direct, real-time reaction rather than an antibody level from a blood draw, correlates more closely with actual symptoms, and lets multiple allergens be tested in a single sitting. Blood testing remains the better option for patients who can’t stop antihistamines, have significant skin disease, or are on medications that interfere with skin testing.
Patch Testing
AVAILABLE NOW
For Contact Dermatitis & Delayed Skin Reactions
When the Reaction Shows Up Days Later
Not every allergic skin reaction happens in minutes. Patch testing identifies delayed contact allergies — to metals, fragrances, preservatives, and other everyday exposures — by applying small amounts of suspected allergens to the skin and reading the results over several days.
It’s done as a three-visit series, usually scheduled Monday for patch application, Wednesday for patch removal and a preliminary look, and Friday for the delayed reading and full review — since some reactions take days to fully develop.
Ordinarily a Dermatology Referral. Here, Without Leaving the Practice.
Patch testing is usually the domain of dermatology, meaning a separate referral and a separate provider for what’s typically its own multi-visit series. Performed here instead, all three visits are with the same team already treating the patient’s allergic disease, not a reason to start over elsewhere.
Antibiotic (Penicillin) Allergy Challenge
AVAILABLE NOW
For Patients Carrying an Unverified Penicillin Allergy Label
A Label From Years Ago Shouldn't Limit Care for Life
Many patients carry a penicillin allergy label that was never formally confirmed, often noted years ago after a reaction that may not have been a true allergy at all. That label can quietly limit antibiotic options for the rest of a patient’s life.
An in-office antibiotic challenge, performed under direct medical supervision, safely evaluates whether the allergy is real, and removes the label when it isn’t, reopening antibiotic choices that had been closed off unnecessarily.
This isn’t just a personal convenience. Patients carrying an unverified penicillin allergy are typically treated with broader-spectrum alternative antibiotics instead, options that tend to carry more side effects and contribute more to antibiotic resistance over time. Correcting an inaccurate label lets first-line, narrower-spectrum antibiotics be used when they’re the right choice again, which is exactly why national and international antimicrobial stewardship organizations have identified penicillin allergy delabeling as a priority.
A Capability Few Practices Offer at All
Penicillin allergy evaluation and challenge testing requires specialty-level supervision that most primary care offices simply don’t provide, which is why unverified labels so often go unaddressed for years. Offering it here means the evaluation happens as part of routine allergy care, not a separate specialty referral most patients never pursue. This procedure is both good for the individual patient’s future antibiotic options, and good antibiotic stewardship more broadly.
Allergen Immunotherapy
AVAILABLE NOW
Modifying the Immune Response, Not Just Managing Symptoms
Getting to the Root of the Allergy, Not Just Its Symptoms
Allergen immunotherapy (allergy shots) works differently from every other allergy treatment available. Rather than controlling symptoms only while it’s being used, it retrains how the immune system actually responds to an allergen over time. It’s the only allergy treatment shown to modify that underlying immune response, not just mask it.
The goal isn’t only to feel better while on treatment, though patients will experience fewer symptoms, less reliance on daily allergy medication, and a better quality of life along the way. It’s to build a tolerance durable enough to hold up after treatment ends, typically after three-to-five-years of maintenance therapy, so the benefit doesn’t disappear the moment the shots stop.
COMING SOON
Extended early-morning and late-afternoon hours are being added specifically for immunotherapy visits, so keeping up with a shot schedule doesn’t mean missing work or school.
Consistency Is What Builds the Long-Term Benefit
Immunotherapy’s disease-modifying effect depends on completing a full, multi-year course of consistent, regularly scheduled visits, and inconvenient hours are one of the most common reasons patients fall off that schedule before the benefit has fully taken hold. Expanding appointment availability around the start and end of the workday is built to keep patients on the schedule their long-term outcome actually depends on.
Nasal Endoscopy (Rhinoscopy)
AVAILABLE NOW
For Nasal Polyps · Unexplained Congestion · Chronic Sinus Disease
When Congestion Doesn't Add Up
A physical exam alone often can’t tell whether congestion is coming from ongoing allergic inflammation or from a structural issue — a deviated septum, nasal polyps, enlarged adenoid tissue; all of which require a different approach entirely. Nasal endoscopy lets your physician see directly inside the nasal passages and sinuses with a thin, lighted scope, right here in the office, instead of treating by trial and error.
That direct view changes how quickly a real decision gets made. When what’s found is structural, we work collegially with ENT and refer when it’s needed, so the right specialist is involved from the start, not after months of medication that was never going to fix a problem. When the cause is medical rather than structural, seeing exactly what’s happening in the nasal cavity helps tremendously in moving forward with more definitive treatment, faster.
More Information, Faster and More Definitive Decisions
Without direct visualization, patients with a structural cause of congestion can spend months on medication aimed at the wrong problem. Seeing the nasal cavity directly lets the care team tell structural from medical quickly, referring collegially to ENT when surgery is the right next step, and moving straight to more targeted medical treatment when it isn’t.
Complete Pulmonary Function Testing
AVAILABLE NOW
PulmOne In-Office Testing System
The Full Picture of How You Breathe
Basic spirometry answers a narrow question. Complete pulmonary function testing, performed in-office on the PulmOne system, gives a fuller picture, including lung volumes, airflow, and gas exchange, for patients with asthma, chronic cough, shortness of breath, or breathing symptoms that haven’t been fully explained.
Unlike a traditional body box, the system is cabinless and gas-free, so there’s no sealed chamber to sit in, which makes this test a more comfortable experience compared to a standard body box. No separate pulmonology referral or hospital lab visit required to get the complete panel.
Ordinarily a Pulmonology Referral, but Instead Here, done at your convenience.
Full PFT panels are usually only available through a pulmonology referral or hospital-based lab — another appointment, another wait. Offering the complete test in-office means results and treatment decisions happen promptly, from the team already managing the patient’s allergic and immunologic history.
Remote Patient Monitoring for Asthma
AVAILABLE NOW
Asthma Care Between Visits, Not Just During Them
Your Asthma Doesn't Wait for Appointments
Two connected tools give the care team a continuous view of asthma between office visits, instead of a single snapshot every few months. Hailie is a sensor that attaches to a prescription inhaler, tracking medication use and inhalation technique, sending reminders when a dose is due, and flagging patterns like missed doses or rising rescue-inhaler use as they happen. Aluna pairs with a portable, FDA-cleared home spirometer that measures lung function (FEV1) in about a minute, so changes in breathing show up in the data before they show up as symptoms.
Together, they cover both sides of asthma control: whether medication is being used correctly and consistently, and how the lungs are actually responding. Both data streams are actively reviewed between visits by a respiratory therapist and a nurse on the care team — not just collected and left for the next appointment. That means a concerning trend, a string of missed doses, or a drop in lung function readings gets a clinical eye on it right away, instead of surfacing weeks later at the next scheduled visit.
Ordinarily Just Data. Here, our team is Actually watching.
Remote monitoring tools are often adopted piecemeal, if at all, with no single provider looking at the whole feed. Here, both data streams route to a respiratory therapist and a nurse on the same team managing the patient’s full allergic and respiratory picture, letting the team intervene before a pattern becomes a flare rather than after — the value isn’t just having the data, it’s having someone clinically qualified checking it regularly.
In-Office Immunoglobulin Replacement Therapy
coming soon
For Patients With Primary Immunodeficiency
Treatment for Immune Deficiency, Without Doing It Alone
Right now, most patients starting subcutaneous immunoglobulin replacement have a nurse come to their home to teach them how to self-infuse — then they’re on their own for every infusion after that, managing the needle and the medication by themselves.
Kaufman Allergy is preparing to bring that process in-office instead: the team will administer the infusion directly, so patients can relax comfortably instead of having to handle it alone. Details on scheduling and eligibility will be shared as the program launches.
Ordinarily Self-Administered at Home. Soon, Handled Here.
For many patients, Immunoglobulin replacement therapy involves a single teaching visit followed by managing the infusion solo, every time, at home. Bringing on an option for patients to receive treatment in-office means the care team handles the infusion directly, and treatment doesn’t also have to mean self-administering alone.
OIT - Oral Immunotherapy for Food Allergy
Coming soon
Pilot Program Anticipated Fall 2026 · Full Launch January 2027
Building Tolerance, Not Just Avoidance
Oral immunotherapy (OIT) is an active treatment for food allergy, not just a management strategy. Under close medical supervision, a patient eats gradually increasing amounts of the actual allergenic food, first through a careful escalation phase, then an ongoing daily maintenance dose, with the goal of raising how much of the allergen the body can tolerate, lowering the risk of a serious reaction from an accidental exposure.
It asks for real commitment: escalation typically takes months, daily dosing needs to continue afterward to maintain protection, and reactions — usually mild, and occasionally more significant, can happen along the way, which is exactly why it’s done under direct medical supervision rather than at home unsupervised. It’s a genuine, active treatment option, not a guaranteed cure: most patients reach meaningful protection, though how durable that protection is without continued dosing varies, and tends to be better in patients who start younger.
Kaufman Allergy is preparing to launch an OIT program for food allergy, beginning with a pilot in the fall and a full program launch in January 2027. Patients interested in learning more as the program develops are welcome to reach out.
Careful By Design. Coming Soon, right here in our office.
OIT isn’t done casually: it starts with an oral food challenge to confirm the diagnosis, an informed consent process that lays out the real risks and time commitment, and ongoing monitoring through both the escalation and maintenance phases. Food allergy management has historically meant avoidance and emergency preparedness alone, with this level of active treatment available only at specialized regional centers. Bringing it here means that entire process happens with the same team already managing the patient’s allergic history, not a separate program starting from scratch at a separate facility.
READY WHEN YOU ARE
One Team, Every Piece of Your Care
You’ve dealt with the alternative: chasing referrals, repeating your history at a new office, waiting weeks for someone else’s results. We’re building Kaufman Allergy into a true center of excellence, where every one of these services can be done right here, by the same team, in the same practice. Existing patients can ask about any of it at their next visit, and new patients can request an appointment to get started.