Recent Blog Posts

Unfortunately, many Houston Area insurances are terminating contracts with Houston Methodist, Memorial Hermann, and Kelsey Seybold. The terminations put you, our valued patient, in a precarious position, severing the relationship you have with doctors and nurse practitioners. We understand how hard and unsettling this can be. Be assured, AFC Urgent Care Richmond will continue to be IN-NETWORK with all your insurance companies to be your dependable, AFFORDABLE health care choice for all your Urgent and ...

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Summary: Independent Urgent Care Centers can handle most accidents but at a much lower cost and higher convenience than Emergency Rooms. A typical ER X-ray visit will cost more than $1750 and take four hours of waiting. Our Cash Pay is only $175 with less than a 10-minute wait! If you have an unfortunate accident outdoors, biking, hiking, running, or any other fun outdoor activities, where do you go? Most often, specialists and even primary ...

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At AFC Urgent Care Richmond, we are committed to providing your children with convenient, affordable, and reliable Sports, Camp and School Physicals. That is why every year we heavily discount the price of these physicals from June 1 through October 30. Sport physicals from a similar medical provider cost $30 - $50, which means our urgent care center offers one of the lowest possible cost for these exams. Furthermore, you don’t need to go to ...

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3-19-20 Update. Unfortunately, this afternoon at 2:46 PM, Houston experienced its first COVID-19 death of a man in his 80’s who was living in a nursing home before being hospitalized. On Sunday, March 15, a man in his 90’s died in Matagorda County, the first local area COVID-19 fatality. Our Ft. Bend County has 19 cases. Nine are in their 60’s or 70’s. One of these elderly afflicted citizens is ...

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[caption id="attachment_7625" align="alignnone" width="450"] Woman applying sunblock protection on shoulders[/caption] Why Skin Protection Is Important We are approaching fall! Our kids have returned to school and have begun Fall Sports here in Fort Bend ISD. But in Houston, it can feel like summer until as late as November. So, we must keep in mind all the preventative measures to protect their skin and combat skin cancer. Why? Well, skin cancer is ...

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$0 charge for both PCR Antigen and Antibody Tests! Are you ready to get back to work? Don't you want to know if you, your employees, and your coworkers are not infected with COVID-19? Wouldn't you want to see if you have antibodies that may protect you from future COVID-19 infections? What is the difference between the types of tests available for COVID-19? Currently, there are two different types of COVID-19 tests: The ...

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Yesterday, Fort Bend County Health and Human Services reported an additional 8 cases of COVID -19 for a total of 54 cases. For the latest and official COVID-19 cases, go to the Fort Bend County Health & Human Services Dashboard at https://www.fbchealth.org/ncov/. Ft. Bend recorded its first case on March 4, 2020. As is typical of earlier regional cases, there was an extended period of low cases. However, exponential growth began around ...

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