Personalized Asthma Treatment in Torrance, CA
An asthma-treatment review in Torrance should show whether the current plan controls symptoms and reduces future flare risk.

Clinical Overview
About Asthma Treatment in Torrance
Asthma treatment is adjusted to symptom control, exacerbation risk, lung function, age, inhaler technique, and response. The aim is reliable control with the least treatment burden that safely achieves it, not a universal inhaler or one-time cure.
This identifies the reason a change is being considered.
Telo Avenue care can include inhaler and spacer demonstration, action-plan review, and assessment of allergy or respiratory comorbidity. Controller changes or biologic evaluation for selected patients depend on age, lung function, exacerbations, and prior response.
For a broader clinical overview, read the asthma treatment guide.
Local clinic: Modena Health Torrance, 23600 Telo Avenue, Suite 130, Torrance, CA 90505. Phone: 310-833-1334.
Clinical references: NHLBI: Asthma Management Guidelines and FDA: Asthma.
Torrance Care Team
Provider Profiles at Torrance for Asthma Care Requests
Patient Experience
A Published Torrance Perspective on Asthma Care
“I am so thankful full I found Dr Banka. I have never felt so taken care of by a doctor who legitimately cares. I was in tears when she told me being hospitalized for Asthma was NOT going to be my story and she will fix me up. I have been going regularly for my care and love not just my experience here every time. Not just wait Dr. Banka, but the front desk team is so kind and generous. So thankful for this practice!!”
Frequently Asked Questions
Asthma Treatment Questions in Torrance
The treatment visit checks whether the diagnosis and current regimen still fit, whether medicines reach the lungs correctly, and whether preventable risks are driving flares.
Options may include education, spacers, controller or rescue medicines, trigger management, immunotherapy for relevant allergy, or biologic evaluation for selected patients. Any change should be reflected in a written action plan.
Relevant information includes all inhalers, spacers, and current prescriptions, the written action plan and rescue-use history, and recent lung-function and exacerbation records. This context helps the clinician focus on evidence that can change diagnosis, treatment, or day-to-day care.
Insurance for This Service
Insurance for Asthma Treatment and Long-Term Management at Torrance
Modena Health Torrance participates with the plans and networks below. Clinic participation does not guarantee coverage for this service under every plan product.
- Aetna
- Anthem Blue Cross
- Blue Cross of California and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona
- Blue Shield of California / FEP
- Blue Zone Health Network of California (IPA)
- Cigna
- First Health
- Health Net
- Humana
- Medicare
- Optum California
- Optum Monarch (IPA) / Medical Group Network
- Optum Serve
- Prime Health Services
- SCAN Health Plan
- South Bay Independent Physicians Medical Group (SBIP)
- TriWest – TRICARE
- TriWest Alliance VA Community Care Network
- UMR
- UnitedHealthcare
Clinic participation, service availability and coverage are separate. Referrals, prior authorization and patient costs depend on the exact plan product. Call the clinic with the plan name shown on the member ID card to confirm current details.





