Project Access
Project Access Tarrant County (PATC) is a network of volunteer physicians, partnering hospitals, charitable community clinics, and other healthcare partners who volunteer to provide services to qualified patients. Qualified patient participants must not exceed 200% of the federal poverty level, be without medical insurance, and not enrolled in Medicaid, Medicare, JPS Connection or VA benefits. Some patients will need PATC services for a limited time while others may have more problems that require extended services.
Patients will be qualified and PATC will schedule the patient's initial appointment with their assigned medical home. A medical home will be established through a primary care physician or one of the nine participating charitable community clinics. PATC staff schedules all specialty, ancillary, and hospital referral requests. The patient's primary care physician completes a PATC Referral Request Form and submits it to PATC. After the appointment(s) have been made, the medical home will be notified by fax regarding the patient's appointment information. PATC will also notify the patient of all specialty, ancillary, and hospital appointments made on the physician's behalf. PATC coordinates everything for the volunteer physician and his/her staff.
Patients pay a $25 enrollment fee to enter the program. Patients are not charged for their appointments or services. Patients are required to show a picture ID and PATC ID card upon each office visit.
PATC does not cover chemotherapy or cancer treatments, dialysis, pregnancy, emergency medicine, serious psychiatric issues, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS.
For more information, contact PATC at 817-632-7531.