Primary Care & Wellness Visits

One of the greatest benefits of primary care is continuity. Seeing the same provider over time allows your care team to understand your health history, medications, family history, previous concerns, and personal goals. This makes care more informed, more efficient, and more personalized.

A long-term provider relationship also helps reduce fragmented care. Instead of treating every symptom as an isolated issue, your provider can connect new concerns to your overall health picture. This is especially valuable for patients managing multiple conditions, taking several medications, seeing specialists, or recovering after a hospital stay.

At Advanced Health, we prioritize ongoing relationships because better care depends on knowing the patient, not just the diagnosis. Our team works with you over time to monitor changes, follow up on concerns, update care plans, and support better long-term outcomes.

Primary care at Advanced Health may include:

• Annual wellness visits and routine checkups
• Physicals and preventive exams
• Sick visits for common illnesses and new symptoms
• Blood pressure monitoring
• Diabetes and blood sugar management
• Cholesterol and heart health support
• Medication review and prescription management
• Lab work and screening recommendations
• Men’s health and women’s health visits
• Geriatric care for older adults
• Chronic condition management
• Post-hospital follow-up through Transitional Care Management
• Remote Patient Monitoring for eligible patients
• Chronic Care Management for eligible patients with multiple conditions
• Wound care coordination when needed
• Referrals to specialists when appropriate

Primary care is designed to be the central point for your ongoing health needs. Whether you are healthy and focused on prevention or managing several conditions at once, Advanced Health can help you stay connected to the care you need.

You do not need to wait until something is wrong to see your primary care provider. Regular visits help establish a health baseline, update screenings, review medications, and identify risks early.

You may need a primary care or wellness visit if you:

• Are due for an annual exam or routine checkup
• Need medication refills or medication review
• Have new or worsening symptoms
• Need follow-up for blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol, or another chronic condition
• Want routine lab work or preventive screenings
• Have questions about your health risks
• Need follow-up after a hospital stay or emergency room visit
• Want help coordinating care with specialists
• Need support managing multiple conditions
• Have not had a primary care visit in the past year

Consistent care helps your provider understand what is normal for you and respond more effectively when changes occur.

Primary care and urgent care both play important roles, but they are not the same. Urgent care is often used for immediate, non-emergency medical needs when your regular provider is not available. Primary care focuses on your full health picture, including prevention, long-term monitoring, chronic disease management, medication review, and continuity.

When possible, seeing your primary care provider for non-emergency concerns can be helpful because your care team already knows your medical history, medications, risk factors, and ongoing care plan. This makes it easier to provide guidance that fits your overall health.

For life-threatening symptoms such as chest pain, severe shortness of breath, signs of stroke, severe allergic reaction, uncontrolled bleeding, or confusion, patients should seek emergency care immediately.

At Advanced Health, primary care is more than one appointment. Our services are designed to support patients during visits and between visits.

For eligible patients with multiple chronic conditions, Chronic Care Management provides additional support and coordination between appointments. Remote Patient Monitoring allows patients to track important health readings from home, such as blood pressure, blood sugar, oxygen levels, or weight. Transitional Care Management helps patients after discharge from a hospital, rehabilitation facility, or skilled nursing facility. Wound care services provide support for chronic, complex, or slow-healing wounds.

These programs help strengthen your primary care experience by keeping you connected to your care team and helping providers respond earlier when changes occur.

No. Advanced Health is not a Direct Primary Care practice. We are an insurance-based primary care practice in Greenville, SC, similar to the primary care providers patients may see through a hospital system or traditional medical group.

The difference is our care model. Advanced Health keeps a smaller patient panel, which allows our providers to offer more personalized attention, stronger care coordination, and better continuity over time. Patients can use their insurance for covered services, and our team is in-network with most major insurance providers.

Our goal is to make primary care feel more accessible, proactive, and connected while still operating as a traditional insurance-based primary care practice.

Advanced Health is not a membership-only or cash-only DPC or concierge practice. We accept insurance for covered primary care services while maintaining a smaller patient panel to provide more personal, coordinated care.