Allergy & Asthma Specialists Ltd

What Allergy & Asthma Specialists Ltd does

Allergy & Asthma Specialists Ltd is a private medical practice founded in 1951 by Dr. Herman Laibstain, operating three clinic locations in Chesapeake, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach, Virginia, serving the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. The practice specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of allergic and immunologic conditions in both adults and children, with a clinical service portfolio that includes skin prick and blood IgE allergy testing, oral food challenges, spirometry-based asthma assessment, PRE-PEN penicillin skin testing, traditional subcutaneous allergen immunotherapy (allergy shots), and oral immunotherapy (OIT) for food desensitization. A differentiated offering is intradermal C. albicans immunotherapy for recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis, administered over a 2-3 year treatment course.

The practice is staffed by four board-certified allergist/immunologists (Dr. Gary Moss, Dr. Craig Koenig, Dr. Gregory Pendell, Dr. Marguerite Lengkeek), one physician assistant (Lisa Deafenbaugh, PA-C), and a long-tenured support team where most staff have been with the practice for 15-30 years. Operational differentiators include walk-in availability for allergy injections across all three locations, a CareCloud-based patient portal, and proactive community outreach delivering asthma training to Chesapeake Public Schools and Virginia Beach Public Schools nurses and PE teachers. Physicians maintain active regional media presence on WAVY-TV 10, WVEC-TV 13, and WTKR-TV 3, and the practice holds peer-recognized TOP DOC recognitions in Hampton Roads Magazine (2012, 2014) plus a Fellow designation from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

The business model is a fee-for-service specialty medical practice. Revenue is generated primarily through patient consultations, allergy testing, and recurring immunotherapy injection visits billed to patients and insurance providers. A documented ancillary revenue stream is a flat $25 fee for completion of physical, FMLA, work-related, and Allergy/Asthma Management Plan forms. Patients access services through scheduled appointments, walk-in allergy injection visits, and referrals from primary care physicians across Hampton Roads. No fee schedule, revenue figures, funding events, or investor disclosures are publicly available; the practice is independently owned and operated by its physician providers with no indicated parent company or external investment.

Name

Allergy & Asthma Specialists Ltd

Legal name

Allergy & Asthma Specialists Ltd

Website

https://allergydocs.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

1951

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Allergy & Asthma Specialists Ltd is a private, multi-location allergy and asthma medical practice founded in 1951, serving adult and pediatric patients across Chesapeake, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach in Virginia's Hampton Roads region.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

NAICS

Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) (621111), Ambulatory Health Care Services (621)

SIC

Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011)

akta.pro primary industry

Allergy & Immunology Clinics (HLAKAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Asthma & Airway Disease Specialty Care (HLAKAAAC), Allergy & Immunology Diagnostic Testing Centers (Skin/Challenge/PFT) (HLAKAAAL), Food Allergy Evaluation & Management (HLAKAAAD), Asthma & Allergy-Related Pulmonary Care (HLAKANAD)

Keywords

• Allergy treatment services
• Asthma care
• Immunotherapy treatments
• Allergy testing
• Food allergy services

Headquarters

HQ city

Chesapeake

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Patient Medical Services: Revenue generated from medical consultations, allergy testing, immunotherapy injections, and treatment of allergic diseases billed to patients and/or insurance providers.
2. Form Fees: $25 fee charged for forms requiring completion by nurses or providers, such as physical forms, FMLA documentation, work-related forms, and Allergy/Asthma Management Plan forms.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Allergy & Asthma Specialists Ltd is a medical practice that diagnoses and treats allergy, asthma, and immunological conditions for patients in the Hampton Roads, Virginia area. The practice offers allergy testing, food allergy testing, immunotherapy (allergy shots), specialized treatments for conditions such as vulvovaginal candidiasis, penicillin allergy testing, and oral immunotherapy/desensitization services for individual patients.

Product overview

Allergy & Asthma Specialists is a medical practice offering specialized allergy and asthma healthcare services. The practice provides immunotherapy (allergy shots) as its core treatment for environmental allergies, along with diagnostic services including allergy testing, food allergy testing, and PRE-PEN penicillin skin testing. Additional services include asthma treatment with pulmonary function testing, patient education through video resources, oral immunotherapy for food allergy desensitization, and specialized C. albicans immunotherapy for recurrent vaginal infections. The practice also conducts community outreach training programs for school nurses and PE teachers on asthma management.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Allergy Testing Diagnostic testing services to identify environmental and other allergies in individual patients seeking allergy care.
• Immunotherapy (Allergy Shots) Long-term desensitization treatment using allergy shots for patients with identified allergic conditions.
• Food Allergy Testing Diagnostic evaluation of food-related allergic reactions for patients with suspected food allergies.
• Asthma Treatment Medical management and treatment of asthma for patients in the Hampton Roads area.
• Oral Immunotherapy (Desensitization) Oral desensitization therapy for patients with food or environmental allergies, gradually building tolerance under medical supervision.
• PRE-PEN Penicillin Skin Test Skin testing service to evaluate penicillin allergy in patients before antibiotic treatment.
• Vulvovaginal Candidiasis Immunotherapy Specialized immunotherapy treatment for patients with recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis.

Quantifiable outcome

• Approximately 85% of people with allergic rhinitis see symptoms drop significantly within 12 months of immunotherapy treatment
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Food Allergy Association of Virginia BeachminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2011Allergy & Asthma Specialists helped launch the Food Allergy Association of Virginia Beach. Dr. Gary Moss served as President of Asthma and Allergy Society of Virginia from 2008-2010.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Allergy Partners: The largest U.S. network of board-certified allergy, asthma, and immunology specialists, operating dozens of clinic locations across multiple states. Allergy Partners is the closest direct comparable as a multi-site allergy specialty practice delivering immunotherapy, testing, and asthma care — and a logical acquirer in the consolidation wave sweeping the specialty.
• AllerVie Health: A national platform of allergy and immunology clinics formed through PE-backed roll-up acquisitions. AllerVie offers essentially the same core services (allergy testing, immunotherapy, asthma treatment) as Allergy & Asthma Specialists and competes — or partners — for the same regional independent practices.
• Atlanta Allergy & Asthma: One of the largest privately held allergy and asthma practices in the Southeast U.S., founded in 1972 across multiple metro Atlanta locations. It mirrors the subject company's regional multi-clinic model, walk-in shot availability, and pediatric/adult mix.
• Family Allergy & Asthma: A large multi-site allergy, asthma, and immunology group operating across Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee with multiple physicians and clinic locations. Direct analog in size, structure, and service mix to the subject practice and a probable acquirer-type platform.
• Center for Allergy and Asthma of Georgia: An independent multi-location allergy and asthma specialty practice in metro Atlanta providing allergy testing, immunotherapy, and asthma management. Comparable in size and structure to Allergy & Asthma Specialists and a relevant regional benchmark.

Broad incumbents

• Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center / Jefferson Allergy & Immunology: A large academic health system's allergy/immunology division, including providers like those at Thomas Jefferson University. It illustrates the broad-incumbent alternative: hospital-employed allergists with integrated specialty care. Comparable service offering but part of a much larger enterprise.

Others

• Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA): The leading nonprofit patient organization for people with asthma and allergies. AAFA is not a peer in the clinical care sense but is a directly adjacent ecosystem participant — referral source, policy advocate, and complementary service provider to allergy practices like the subject.

Regional players

• Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters: Regional pediatric health system in Norfolk, VA, where the practice's physicians maintain hospital privileges. Not a direct competitor (it is a children's hospital, not an allergy clinic) but represents an institutional partner and an alternative provider channel for pediatric allergy patients in the same Hampton Roads geography.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/allergy-and-asthma-specialists-ltd.

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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