Select Your Appointment Type
Due to the wide variety of services and procedures offered by our family medicine specialists, it is crucial that you schedule the most specific visit type when you call for an appointment. Family Medicine Associates will treat your family like theirs. However, if your questions and concerns overwhelm the time allotted for your appointment, you will be booked a follow-up appointment so that all of your needs will be addressed in a timely fashion.
1. Acute appointments—address new problems or worsening of an established problem.
2. Follow-up appointments—used to follow stable medical problems or the response to a new medication, discuss the results of lab and imaging studies, and to refill medications.
3. Wellness appointments—used for adult annual wellness visits, well-child visits, and school/band/sports physicals.
4. Procedure clinic appointments—used for procedures only.
5. Mental health testing—used for diagnostic testing of mental health concerns.
What To Bring To Your Appointment
- Prescription medication bottles
- Blood pressure and blood sugar logs (when applicable).
- Childrens’ shot records (birth – 18 years).
- A health diary or calendar of symptoms. Keep track of what’s happening and when so that we can review it with you in the office.
- All applicable health forms, insurance forms, documents for your job, FMLA documents, etc., that you need the provider to sign or complete. We do not complete paperwork outside of appointments so please plan carefully and don’t forget any of your documents. Make two copies. Complete one copy in its entirety with all of the details that you want the provider to consider. The second copy will be completed by the provider.
Reminders For Your Appointment
1. Please bring a log with your blood pressure readings. We especially like a variety of blood pressure readings at different times, including early in the morning before you take your blood pressure medications.
2. If you have diabetes, please bring your blood sugar log. We want to see recent blood sugar readings at various times (upon awakening, before lunch, before evening meal, and at bedtime).
3. For a wellness visit or a cholesterol check (usually tested once a year), do NOT eat or drink anything after midnight except water or black coffee.
4. If you have diabetes AND will be fasting for a cholesterol check, only take blood pressure medications that morning. DO NOT take INSULIN or DIABETES PILLS if you are fasting. This will keep you from having a low blood sugar.
5. Always take your BLOOD PRESSURE MEDICATIONS the first thing every morning even if you’re having fasting labs drawn at the doctor’s office. This is very, very important.
6. New patients and those with a history of no-shows or cancellations will be asked to put $25 on their account at the time their appointment is booked. This will not be refunded if you no-snow or cancel on the same day as your appointment. Thanks for your consideration on this matter.
7. Co-pays and deductibles are due upon check-in. All past balances are due at the time you book your next appointment.
8. Please complete the REVIEW OF SYMPTOMS attachment on our website.
Importance Of Immunization Records
Please bring all shot records to well-child visits and school/band/sports physicals. It is important that all patients have an accurate record of their immunizations. Children, in particular, should have all of their immunizations updated in our electronic health record so that will automatically downloaded to Immtrac, Texas’ online immunization registry. Parents have access to Immtrac online which is extremely helpful in the even at shot record is lost. So please bring all shot records to well-child visits and school/band/sports physicals. For more information, visit https://www.immtrac.tdh.state.tx.us/.
