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Passport Health

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“ I absolutely hate shots but had to get immunized for my upcoming trip to India. ” in 2 reviews

“ Nurse Kelsey is a highly trained professional who prepared a packet of specific information unique to where my daughter and I will be going. ” in 2 reviews

“ Easy appointment setup, online admission form, and essentially no waiting . ” in 2 reviews

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4101 Parkstone Heights Dr

Austin, TX 78746

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Passport Health is the leading provider of travel medicine in North America. For nearly 30 years, Passport Health has provided the yellow fever vaccine, typhoid fever vaccine and other preventative travel medicine to countless global travelers. With nearly 300 travel clinics across North America and the United Kingdom, Passport Health is proud to offer broad access to not just travel vaccines, but also valuable information to protect international travelers. …

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I saw the other reviews on here about the price gouging and scam tactics so before my appointment I called around to get some quotes on the medicine I would need for my upcoming trip to Colombia (typhoid, yellow fever, rabies, malaria). While expensive, the price I got at Passport health was roughly the same as CVS and my primary care doctor. They were insistent that I didn't take risks when choosing vaccines but they did not pressure me to do so. They gave me the info I needed to make a choice plus their recommendation - which as a doctor it's only fair to assume they will advise caution. They were timely, prepared, and accommodating. I spent a lot of money but I was either going to either way. They provided a lot of other recommendations for protecting myself from other mosquito-Bourne illnesses and avoiding diarrhea. I would recommend them for future international travel.

Absolutely horrible. Passport Health will not give you any information regarding cost until AFTER you've seen and shelled out $ to meet with a nurse. They will not accept insurance. Try calling and asking them for prices... you'll be told you have to pay first to find out cost of getting any vaccines. Absolutely horrible greedy company.... clearly designed to milk corporations who'll shell out the $$$ for their executives.

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Feb 2, 2024

Thanks for your feedback. As the nation's leading provider of preventative travel medicine, the team at Passport Health takes pride in protecting globetrotters from illness. While pricing varies for each clinic, we happily disclose vaccine pricing without the need to first schedule an appointment or pay any fees. Additionally, most insurance providers do not cover travel vaccines and, like most travel medicine providers, Passport Health does not accept insurance. Thanks, again, for your feedback.

Do not use this place, they are very shady and only interested in taking your money. I made an appointment online and almost immediately cancelled it yet was charged a $75 "cancelation fee". They had full appointment availability and I cancelled very quickly once I realized I'd made an appointment for the wrong time. I've called and emailed asking for a refund yet weeks later no one has returned any calls nor emails. Very bad business practice. Have reported to the better business bureau due to shady business practices.

SCAM! We made appointments and then got charged $500 for shots that are $25 at Walgreens. After my husband paid I canceled my appointment and they are charging $75 for cancellation fee. Yes we agreed to a cancellation fee before I realized they were going to charge us 20 TIMES the amount at Walgreens!!!!

Absolutely cannot believe I heard the MASKLESS medical lady encourage the patient to UNMASK inside of the shared waiting room where they were to get some sort of shot. Austin is in stage 4 for the 6th or so time in two years and she's working in this facility with sick individuals all over the place!! WOW.

I have used Passport Health on multiple occasions. I needed to get immunizations for Africa a few years ago and recently I needed to get my immunizations updated for a job. Tracy was fantastic! She went over everything that she could help me with and even told me the places around town that could help me with the things she couldn't. Highly recommend!!

Passport Health is a great service to Austin travelers. Nurse Kelsey is a highly trained professional who prepared a packet of specific information unique to where my daughter and I will be going. We left informed and prepared to take on whatever may come our way in Taiwan! Thanks Kelsey

They have some travel supplies also.

The basic service is of course very important - protect yourself against disease, it's a no brainer - and Passport Health can do this. However, some cautions. First the medical issues: The Consultant did not probe to learn the details of where I was going to be based for one month. Had she done so, she would have determined that there is very low risk of encephalitis, and very very low risk even of malaria. The Consultant recommended Malorum for malaria, but when I learned it was over $300, I opted for the Doxycycline which is under $100, though as she warned me it can have severe side effects. She did not ask me if I was anemic. Only after purchasing the doxy did I learn it is contra indicated for those on Iron supplements/anemic. (Ultimately I learned there was no good reason to take either of these, which often make people sick due to extreme toxicity - the price we pay for protecting ourselves against worse consequences - and would be best to take if the risk is high, or medium.) Second, the honesty factor. The consultant quoted me prices on Hep A and B vaccination. She was not at all clear on the fact that this was the per shot price. (Three shots are needed for the full series.) In the end, I went to my HEB pharmacy and got the series (at about 75% of the price that she had - sort of - quoted). Third - prices Had I actually gone forward with the program that they recommended at the 'Consultation" I would have been out of pocket $1,100. In the end I have spent half that amount, because I got better information about how many of the jabs to get based on risk factors, and go as a walk up at a pharmacy. Our personal health is nothing to screw around with, and you will definately get that covered here. My issue is that with the internet, and any contacts you have in the country, you can figure out what you need and probably get it covered for less money at your pharmacy - you don't need scrips, atleast not for Hep AB for example. The honesty issue about prices (never mind the up-charges at this speciallist clinic) is however a real turn off and why I have put two stars. Good luck, enjoy your travels.

Great experience! Knowledgeable, informative, courteous. Clear about pricing and how to submit for insurance reimbursement.

The nurses here are top notch. I've visited them several times over the last few months, in preparation for a trip to Sierra Leone. They were patient with my anxiety of sharp pointy things being jabbed into me repeatedly (I required multiple vaccinations), were very thorough and patient with discussing which anti-malarial medication would be best given my health history, and gave me a very detailed consultation on how to avoid death in the jungle by grave tropical disease.

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There are a number of places in Austin where you can obtain vaccinations to protect you while traveling internationally. A list of providers is available here.

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Visit the CDC's Travelers' Health website for information to assist travelers and their health-care providers in deciding the vaccines, medications, and other measures necessary to prevent illness and injury during international travel. 

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Welcome to Travel Medicine provided by Texas Children’s. We know preparing for an international trip can be overwhelming, so our team of experts is here to help you during this process.

The Texas Children’s Travel Medicine clinic offers services to assist children and adults traveling abroad. During the office visit, patients can expect to receive information regarding necessary vaccinations and advice on travel-related concerns.

We understand every travel situation is unique, however, our board certified physicians all have extensive experience in international health. Our goal is to enhance each patients travel experience by providing personalized care specific to the country of visitation.

Before you visit our clinic for your appointment, please review the following information:

• The Travel Medicine Clinic does not accept walk-ins.
• Payments can be made in the form of check or credit card.
• All patients will be counseled by a physician during the appointment.
• There will be a physician’s fee and a facility fee that includes any vaccines and services during the visit.

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Our team uses the most current information from the Centers for Diseases Control, the World Health Organization, and Shoreland’s computerized Tavel Health Information Services.

Your personalized consult includes:

• Travel consultation with a healthcare professional trained in travel medicine.
• Required and recommended immunizations based on your itinerary, personal history of immunizations, and planned activities during your trip.
• General travel advice on preventive measures for food, drink, climate, and recreational activities.

Travel Consultations are required to receive travel vaccines such as Typhoid, Yellow Fever, Rabies, Polio, Hep A, and Japanese Encephalitis. Our travel specialist will arrange a separate visit with a UHS provider (separate UHS standard charge) for prescription medications for malaria prophylaxis, traveler’s diarrhea, or the prevention of altitude sickness.

Travel consultations are available in person or by telehealth

• If traveling within two weeks, an in-person appointment is preferred to start necessary vaccines as soon as possible.
• If you have a telehealth consult, you will need to make arrangements for an appointment for travel vaccines on a separate occasion.

How to Schedule

Travel Consultations can be scheduled by calling 512-475-8301.

Steps to your Visit

Step 1: Call 512-475-8301 to make an appointment and complete the pre-visit questionnaire.

• Schedule early (at least 6-8 weeks before departure) because there is considerable demand for appointments, especially before peak travel times (December, before Spring Break, April, and May)
• All immunizations take two weeks to reach optimum effectiveness; some are given in a series.
• If you do not have student/staff insurance, please get in touch with your insurance company to check coverage for vaccines at UHS.

Step 2: Upload your immunization records on the MyUHS portal . This information is essential for our healthcare professionals to make the best recommendations about pre-travel immunizations.

Step 3: Learn how to stay safe and healthy while traveling. We encourage you to learn about travel health through these two means:

• Travel Health Online for free, up-to-date country-specific recommendations.
• Travel Safety 101 assists travelers with essential safety mitigation while traveling abroad.

Cost for Travel Health Consult

Enrolled student, faculty, and staff: $35 fee for travel consultation, not billed to insurance.

Immunization costs will be billed to insurance. If insurance does not cover the costs, patients will be responsible.

Prescriptions for travel meds will be written, if necessary. Patients can provide their insurance information to their pharmacy to check for coverage.

Appointments with a UHS provider for prescription medication is a standard visit charge.

Over-the-counter medications will be recommended to purchase.

Supplies will be recommended to bring on your trip.

Is your department paying for some or all travel costs? If so, disclose this information when making the appointment. Any charges not covered by your department will be your responsibility.

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Niños: La mayoría de los niños todavía pueden obtener cobertura a través del Programa de seguro médico para niños/CHIP. Para obtener más detalles, consulte su aviso de Medicaid o llame al 800-964-2777 .

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ARC has a limited supply of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer for ages 6 months and up. Patients can request the vaccine at already-scheduled visits. You can also schedule online at MyChartARC.com or call 512-272-4636. If online scheduling is not available, please check back frequently as COVID vaccine quantities change.

Actualización Sobre Renovando la Cobertura de Medicaid 

Como respuesta a la pandemia de COVID-19, el gobierno federal declaró una Emergencia de Salud Pública (PHE, por sus siglas en inglés) y aprobó una ley que le permitió a usted mantener automáticamente su cobertura de Medicaid (cobertura continua de Medicaid). Según la nueva ley federal, la elegibilidad para la cobertura continua de Medicaid se terminará el 31 de marzo, de 2023, por eso necesita renovar sus beneficios cuando se llegue el momento para asegurar que su cobertura va a continuar si usted todavía es elegible.

Pacientes deben buscar avisos de la HHSC en sobres AMARILLOS con el texto “ACCIÓN REQUERIDA” en letras ROJAS. Los avisos llegarán por correo y/o a través del portal en línea si los clientes eligieron recibir avisos electrónicos. Deberían responder con rapidez cuando lo reciban. 

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A local’s travel guide to Austin: what to eat, see and do in three days

Standout spots include food truck parks, honky-tonk hangouts and Lady Bird’s wildflower sanctuary

A ustin has become one of the most popular places in the US to move to, and also to visit. Droves of people descend on the city in March for the South by Southwest tech, film and music festival and in the fall for the Austin City Limits music festival. And Austin is one of the top five destinations in the US for bachelorette parties. Don’t let the bachelorettes scare you away, though. Austin is a great place to spend a few days, so long as you do it like a local.

My family and I moved to Austin 12 years ago, after living in New York for many years. I’ve also lived in Washington DC , the San Francisco Bay Area and Philadelphia. Austin has a feel all of its own: it has a world-class music scene, great food that now goes well beyond Tex-Mex and barbecue, Texas history and fun shopping and museums – all with less hassle than bigger cities in the US.

Here’s my guide to a long weekend there. In addition to picks for adults, I’ve included some recommendations for families that our kids (now teenagers) have loved through the years. And I’m vegetarian, so I’ve chosen some of the city’s best veggie eats options. Don’t worry, my meat-eating wife made sure that I included great barbecue choices, too.

Day 1: Pool party & pickles

Start your day with a walk or run on the trail at Town Lake (it’s officially labeled on maps as Lady Bird Lake, but locals refer to it as Town Lake). This 10-mile (16km) trail on both sides of a dammed portion of Texas’s Colorado River (a different Colorado River than the bigger and more famous one) is tree-shaded, beautiful and one of Austinites’ favorite places to exercise. If you have time, walk through Zilker Park, which is right next to the trail. If you have kids, go to the new and very fun playground at Butler Park, complete with a splash pad just up the path from the playground.

Austin was one of the cities that started the food truck scene in the US several decades ago, and now there are more than 2,000 food trucks in the city. Some are located in trailer parks that have multiple truck options and picnic table seating. After your morning at Town Lake and Zilker Park, have lunch at the Picnic food truck park, or the nearby original location of local favorite Chuy’s (the Tex-Mex chain is now expanding throughout the US). Other great lunch options include Green Mesquite and Carpenters Hall .

In the afternoon, go for a swim at Barton Springs Pool . Open year-round, this massive basin measures three acres and is fed by underground natural springs. It’s open throughout the day, and it’s free before 8am and after 9pm.

Head back to your hotel or Airbnb for a rest, and then get ready for dinner. Tonight is casual: barbecue at Terry Black’s , or if you’re vegan, the food truck Rollin Smoke for a fantastic vegan barbecue sandwich made with baby portobello mushrooms, spicy slaw, barbecue sauce and pickles. It’s my favorite vegan barbecue sandwich in Austin (who says you can’t have barbecue if you’re veggie?), and it’s located in a food truck park with beautiful old trees shading the tables. Rollin Smoke has very good meat options, too (I’m told).

If you have young children, head to Phil’s Icehouse . They have burgers and a full playground where the kids can play before or after dinner. Just don’t put them on the spinning flower after the meal. And be sure to get some ice-cream after dinner at Amy’s Ice Creams , a longtime favorite of Austinites. Amy’s is located next to Phil’s, and it’s so good we had an Amy’s truck serve dessert at our wedding.

After dinner, head out to see some music at one of Austin’s many local music venues. One of our favorites is the Continental Club . There’s a main club downstairs and the intimate Continental Gallery upstairs, where you can see local musicians in a cozy space. Other great venues include C-Boy’s and the new Moody Amphitheater . For full local music listings on any night, check the Austin Chronicle . And if it’s summer, look to see if Blues on the Green has a free concert that night. If you have kids, take them to the free Rock the Park concert series, produced by local radio station KUTX.

Day 2: Breakfast tacos, books & bats

Start your day back at the lake with a rowing workout that’s almost, but not quite, on the lake. Rō Fitness is a local studio that has outdoor rowing classes by the water. It’s way more fun than working out at an indoor studio.

You’ll need fuel after your workout. Grab a breakfast taco at Veracruz or Tacodeli or Tamale House East . Breakfast tacos are an Austin staple (they are to Austin as bagels are to New York), and all three of these places have delicious options.

Today is a shopping day. Start out at BookPeople , one of the greatest bookstores in the US. It’s locally owned and independent, but the size of a superstore. BookPeople also dares to take a stand on issues, including being one of two bookstores that recently sued Texas state officials over a newly passed book ban law. It has an excellent kids section, and organizes live readings by kids’ authors.

After you’ve gotten your book fix, head across the street to Waterloo Records , one of the best record stores in the US. Waterloo carries new and used vinyl, CDs and merchandise from rock to jazz to local Texas music. For more shopping options, head over to the stores along South Congress Avenue and South First Street (including Roadhouse Relics , a neon art store and gallery that is one of our favorites), and if you want to go thrifting, our teens say Austin Pets Alive Thrift and Texas Thrift are the best.

After all of the shopping, it’s time for lunch. If you’re near BookPeople and Waterloo, head over to Soup Peddler, a local place for homemade soups, smoothies and fantastic grilled cheese sandwiches (trivia: Soup Peddler got its name because the founder started out delivering homemade soup by bike before opening full store locations). Or if you’re near South Congress and South First, go to the food trucks on South First or Underdog or Fresa’s .

As you’re heading back to rest up, grab an ice-cream at Amy’s, a gelato at Dolce Neve or cupcakes at Sugar Mama’s .

Some good dinner options for tonight include Loro , Suerte or Este . And if you’re looking for a vegetarian option, one of my favorite veggie restaurants is Bouldin Creek Cafe . It’s casual, with a great menu that includes vegan chips and queso. If it’s nice out, take a seat on the patio.

Tonight’s activity could be going to see the bats at the Congress Street Bridge. Austin has the largest urban bat colony in North America, and in season they live in one of the bridges that crosses the Colorado River (they migrate to Mexico in the cooler weather). Bat-watching is a lot more fun than you might imagine from horror movies (and these bats look more like birds than vampire bats). If you’re not in the mood for bats, head to the legendary Broken Spoke . Get there early for dance lessons, then hoof it at this classic Texas honky-tonk.

Day 3: Live oaks & Lady Bird wildflowers

It’s your last day in Austin, and it’s a good one for visiting a museum. Some of our favorites include the Bullock Museum to learn all about the history of our state (bonus fact: Texas was once its own country , and some people want it to be its own country again ). If you’re a fan of 1960s history, visit the excellent LBJ Presidential Library , which is the home of the 36th president’s papers. It has good exhibits on the US civil rights movement and 1960s US history in general. Another excellent museum option is the Blanton Museum of Art , or you could tour the Texas capitol (Austin is, after all, the capital of Texas). If you’re a nature fan, head to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center . And if you have kids, the Thinkery is an excellent children’s museum.

For lunch, it’s time for more barbecue (you’re in Austin, don’t fight it). Two terrific barbecue trucks are Mickelthwait and LeRoy and Lewis . And LeRoy and Lewis has another of my favorite vegetarian barbecue options: cauliflower burnt ends.

In the afternoon, head back to Town Lake. This time, get out on the water by renting a kayak, stand up paddleboard or paddle boat (a kid-friendly option). If you have time and energy for a drink, head over to the ABGB for happy hour. They have a great beer selection, lots of outdoor seating and local bands playing music.

For your farewell dinner, a few of our favorite restaurants that are a bit on the fancier end are Hestia , Uchi or the Lenoir wine garden, where dinner is served under live oak trees more than a hundred years old. And for a fantastic vegan option, go to Fabrik for a seven-course vegan tasting menu. You’ll need a reservation well in advance (they’re currently booking four to six weeks out). And for your final night in Austin, head out to another music venue. Or if you have kids, take them to the Austin favorite Peter Pan Mini Golf , which has been around for 75 years, or check Do512 Family for family events that are happening the dates you’re in town.

Question Time

When is the best time of year to visit austin.

There’s no dispute: it’s hot in the summer in Austin . A great time to visit is between October and May. From June through September, many days will be over 100F. If you’re here in the summer, spend lots of time at the Barton Springs pool.

Is Austin expensive?

Austin hotels can be expensive during big events like South by Southwest or the Formula One weekend. But for most dates, it’s less expensive than larger cities like New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Will I need a car to get around Austin?

Most of the places that I’ve recommended are within walking distance from downtown. You can also rent bikes and scooters to get around. Austin’s public transportation is primarily through local buses, which can take you further out if needed. And car-share options are easy as well.

Steve Sachs is managing director of the Guardian US. He has worked at large and startup media companies for more than 20 years. He loves all kinds of music, and his most recent favorite concert, the Texas Songwriters Hall of Fame Show, featured a host of singer-songwriters including Lyle Lovett and Emmylou Harris

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