Access to health care is limited in rural Texas. The mobile clinic operated by Beaumont-based TAN Healthcare aims to close that gap. texas kprc2 click2houston
Shelly Huffman meets with a nurse practitioner at a mobile health clinic in Kirbyville on Oct. 17. The mobile unit provided affordable care to Huffman, who doesnt have health insurance coverage.
This mobile medical unit, parked behind a community center in the rural East Texas town of Kirbyville, had become a lifesaver. Anita Drake, a nurse practitioner, conducts an appointment with Shelly Huffman at a mobile health clinic in Kirbyville on Oct. 17. Credit: Callaghan O'Hare for The Texas Tribune
At TAN, uninsured patients like Huffman pay for their health care according to a sliding scale based on their family’s income level and size. Huffman pays $25 for each visit, a nominal fee compared to the minimum of $80 she forked over at a nearby clinic. And she pays the same amount regardless of how many labs or tests are done — or how long her visit takes.
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