News for our Patients
In most cases, we will be able to schedule a same day appointment. We do ask for a 24 hour notice when canceling an appointment.
We have transitioned to our new Electronic Health Record System. We are asking that you arrive 20 minutes early for your scheduled appointment, and please bring your medication bottles with you. This will help to ensure that all your information is entered correctly in your electronic medical record.
The providers at Lowell Medical Center are currently participating with most insurance companies and will be happy to bill you insurance company for you. We do ask that that all co-pays be paid prior to seeing the doctor. Payment is expected at time of service and we accept checks, cash, Visa and MasterCard.
Priority Health Quality Award
Lowell Family Medical Center earns Priority Health Quality Award for exceptional patient care
Lowell, Mich. – 09/01/2015 – Dr. Gauthier, Lang, Meier, Christenson and Lixie of Lowell Family Medical Center have earned a 2014 Priority Health Quality Award. The awards, established by Priority Health in 2003, recognize primary care physicians (PCPs) for providing exceptional patient care, and making health care more accessible and affordable in our communities. Priority Health selects award winners by analyzing the highest performing practices within its network of 18,000 physicians. The individual physicians and groups selected are the most effective at ensuring patients receive preventive care and manage their chronic conditions, and have high satisfaction with their care. Priority Health rewards these practices through its PCP Incentive Program and honors the top performers through the annual Quality Awards.
About Lowell Family Medical Center
Lowell Family Medical Center’s mission is to provide you and your family with high quality, compassionate medical care. The providers have served the Lowell community for over 35 years. The physicians are osteopathic specialists focusing on Family Medicine. Lowell Family Medical Center has earned this prestigious award multiple times in previous years.
About Priority Health
Priority Health is an award-winning, Michigan-based non-profit health plan nationally recognized for improving the health and lives of the people it serves. It continues to lead the industry in engaging members in their health, delivering effective health and disease management programs and working with physicians to improve health care outcomes and performance. Priority Health is one of only 20 health plans nationwide with wellness programs accredited by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, an organization which also rated it among the best health plans in the nation. Priority Health was also named the benchmark plan by the State of Michigan for all individual and group plans to model.
Priority Health offers a broad portfolio of health benefit options for employer groups and individuals, including Medicare and Medicaid plans. Its network of health care providers features 95 percent of practicing physicians available in Michigan and more than 900,000 nationwide.