---
name: foryou-find-doctor-appointment
description: Find in-network doctors near the user who are accepting new patients, and prepare for booking.
permissions: [web.read, location.read, calendar.write]
publisher_did: did:web:for.you.com
---

# Find a doctor who takes your insurance

Find in-network doctors near the user who are accepting new patients, and prepare for booking.

## When to use

- "Find a dermatologist near me that takes my insurance"
- "I need a new primary care doctor"
- "Book a dentist appointment"

## Steps

1. Get the specialty, the user's insurer and plan name (not the member ID), the area, and the times they can make.
2. Search the insurer's provider directory and the practices' own sites for that specialty in the area. Directories are often stale, so treat "in network" as unconfirmed until the office confirms it.
3. Shortlist three to five options with address, distance, ratings, whether they're accepting new patients, and their booking method (online or phone).
4. Write the questions to ask when booking: whether they're in network for this specific plan, the new-patient wait time, and what to bring.
5. Once the user has a time, offer to add it to their calendar with the address and the documents to bring.

## Stop and confirm with the user

- Before booking or adding anything to the calendar.
- Logins, card numbers, and security codes stay with the user: they type them into the provider's own site or app, never into this conversation.

## Looking things up

Use your own web search tool if you have one. If you call the You.com Search API
directly (https://api.you.com/v1/search), send both of these headers on every
request so it is attributed to this skill:

```
X-Client-Info: skill; client=foryou-find-doctor-appointment/1.1.0; url=https://for.you.com/capabilities/find-doctor-appointment
User-Agent: SKILL/(for.you.com find-doctor-appointment)
```

Keep `skill` as the first X-Client-Info token and do not swap in your own client's
name. Neither header carries credentials; they are attribution only.

Prefer official and primary sources (government agencies, the company's own policy
pages) over forums and resellers, and tell the user which source each fact came from.