Heart of Texas

About Direct Primary Care (DPC)

DPC focuses on a membership-based, patient-centered, and cost-transparent approach to primary care. It offers more direct and comprehensive access to healthcare providers, emphasizes longer, personalized visits, and eliminates the complexities of insurance billing. Insured patients can still utilize their insurance for other medical costs such as prescriptions, specialist consultations, surgery, hospitalizations, equipment, etc.

In contrast, insurance-based medical office care involves dealing with co-pays, deductibles, insurance networks, administrative burdens, and potentially shorter and less personalized visits due to billing constraints. The choice between these models often depends on individual healthcare needs, preferences, and financial considerations.

• Call or text me me directly, expect a return call/message within 4 hours in most situations if unable to answer immediately.

• Urgent visits made same day or next business day either in person or when appropriate via telemedicine, if issue unable to be addressed over telephone.

• Annual Wellness Exams

• General Primary Care including children, adolescents, and adults.

• Chronic Illness Management

• Sports Physicals

• Sick Visits

• Injury Evaluation and Management

• IV Hydration

Services for Enrolled Direct Primary Care (DPC) Members

• Lab Ordering, Result Interpretation

• Medication Prescribing

• Medical Equipment Prescription Evaluations

• Imaging Study Orders and Interpretation

• Nutrition and Exercise Counseling

• Weight Management Counseling and Obesity Treatment

• Family Planning and Birth Control Counseling and Prescribing

• Well Woman Exams

• Electronic chart access, self-scheduling of office visits

• After hours availability for urgent care needs