Prostate cancer screening
Wondering whether to get a PSA test? A clinician weighs the pros and cons with you and orders the test if you decide to screen — usually between ages 55 and 69, or from 40 to 45 if you're at higher risk.
Getting up at night to urinate, a weak stream, or rushing to the bathroom? A clinician scores your symptoms and plans next steps.
Yes, for men 18 and older in Texas. Getting up at night to urinate, a weak stream, or rushing to the bathroom? A clinician scores your symptoms and plans next steps. Review is by a Texas-licensed Passion Health clinician, 24/7 on weekdays and 7 AM–9 PM CT on weekends. The flat price is $89, or use insurance. If labs are needed, your clinician usually orders PSA, total and Comprehensive metabolic panel, $63 including the $29 draw-and-review fee, through Passion Health Blood Work, drawn at a Passion Health clinic or any CPL patient service center in Texas; with insurance, the lab bills your plan directly. A prescription goes to the pharmacy you choose only if it's appropriate; controlled medicines are never prescribed online. If you have fever, chills, or pain between the scrotum and anus with urinary symptoms, you need to be seen in person today instead (at our Dallas–Fort Worth clinics, or urgent care near you), and you don't pay the online fee.
Medically reviewed by Dr. Anantha Chentha, MD, Chief Quality Medical Officer, Passion Health · October 22, 2026
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate, the gland below the bladder in men. As it grows, it can squeeze the urethra and cause a weak stream, trouble starting, dribbling, urgency and waking at night to urinate. It's very common with age, affecting about half of men in their 50s and most men over 80.
Not near one of our clinics? Online Care is open to adults anywhere in Texas; our clinics are in Dallas–Fort Worth. If the safety questions or your clinician show you need to be examined, we tell you what kind of care you need and how soon — an emergency room, an urgent care center, or a clinician near you. If you've already paid, the full fee is refunded and you get a written summary of your visit to take with you.
Also call 911 for chest pain, trouble breathing, stroke signs, a sudden severe headache, fainting, a seizure, severe bleeding, new confusion, throat swelling, an overdose or thoughts of harming someone else — and call or text 988 for thoughts of harming yourself. If screening routes you before you pay, nothing is charged. If a clinician routes you after you've paid, the full fee is refunded.
Upload prior results or home readings if you have them.
If labs would help, the order goes to a Passion Health clinic, or to any CPL patient service center in Texas.
Your clinician reviews them and contacts you with your plan.
Check-ins and repeat labs timed to your condition; 30 days of messaging.
Shown so you know what to expect. The reviewing clinician decides what, if anything, is appropriate for you — a prescription is never guaranteed, and controlled medicines are never prescribed online.
Using insurance: we're in network with BCBS of Texas, Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Cigna, Humana and Healthcare Highways, and we verify eligibility for every plan before review — you see your estimated cost-share first. New patients have a short video visit, because plans pay for a visit, not a form. Same-day review applies to self-pay visits; insurance visits begin once we've verified your plan, which is the next business morning if you submit overnight or on a weekend. Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP and TRICARE are billed to the program, and the cash rate isn't offered for covered services.
Full refund if your case isn't accepted: if the clinician doesn't accept your case for online care, for any reason, the full fee is refunded to your card within 10 business days, and we help you get the care you need: a same-day visit at one of our Dallas–Fort Worth clinics or, if you're not near one, clear advice on where to be seen and a written summary of your visit. With insurance, no claim is submitted for the online review. Paying the flat price yourself? You can ask for a written Good Faith Estimate before your visit.
Labs your clinician orders are priced through Passion Health Blood Work if you self-pay, or billed to your plan directly by the lab (CPL) if you use insurance; imaging is billed by the imaging center and medication is paid at your pharmacy. Passion Health doesn't sell, ship or mark up medication.
A 48-hour check-in, 30 days of secure messaging, and lab follow-up when labs were ordered.
If you start a medicine, your clinician will recheck your symptom score in about 1–3 months. 30 days of messaging.
PSA after a shared decision, and kidney function. Ordered only if your clinician decides it's needed — the visit price never includes a test you don't need.
| PSA, totalAfter a shared decision with your clinician | $22 |
| Comprehensive metabolic panelGlucose, kidney, liver, electrolytes (14 results) | $12 |
| Draw and clinician-review fee One per order of single tests; not charged when the order includes a Blood Work bundle | $29 |
Typical self-pay total: $89 visit + $63 labs = $152
Self-pay prices are billed by Passion Health. If you use insurance — including Medicare and Medicaid — the lab (CPL) bills your plan directly for the tests under your plan's lab benefits, and the prices above don't apply. Blood is drawn at a Passion Health clinic in North Texas or at any CPL patient service center in Texas; your clinician reviews your results and contacts you.
The flat cash rate is $89 for a standard evaluation, or use your insurance and pay your plan's cost-share — we show you an estimate before review starts. Labs and imaging are billed separately. Medication is paid at your pharmacy. If the clinician doesn't accept your case for online care, for any reason, the full fee is refunded to your card.
A Texas-licensed Passion Health clinician reviews every intake and decides your plan — not software. For enlarged prostate (BPH), Texas law lets the clinician evaluate you from a condition-specific intake plus your photos and records, and they'll call or video you whenever something needs a conversation. New patients using insurance have a short video visit, because plans pay for a visit, not a form.
No. You're paying for a licensed clinician's evaluation and plan. Many visits end with a prescription; some end with a different plan, a test, or a referral. Controlled medicines — stimulants, benzodiazepines, opioids, testosterone, sleep aids like zolpidem — are never prescribed at an online visit.
If your clinician orders labs, they're priced through Passion Health Blood Work: for enlarged prostate (BPH) that's usually PSA, total and Comprehensive metabolic panel, $63 including the $29 draw-and-review fee, through Passion Health Blood Work (self-pay prices, billed by Passion Health). If you use insurance, including Medicare or Medicaid, the lab (CPL) bills your plan directly and those prices don't apply. You can have blood drawn at a Passion Health clinic in Dallas–Fort Worth or walk into any CPL patient service center in Texas with a photo ID; your clinician reviews your results and contacts you.
No. BPH is not cancer and doesn't turn into cancer, though both are common in older men and can happen at the same time. Urinary symptoms alone aren't a reliable sign of prostate cancer. Whether to check a PSA blood test is a separate decision you can make with your clinician after weighing the benefits and downsides.
Drink less in the two hours before bed, cut back on caffeine and alcohol, and avoid cold medicines with decongestants. Try 'double voiding' — urinate, wait a moment, then try again. Don't hold urine for long periods. These steps help many men with mild symptoms, and medicine is an option if they aren't enough.
Prostate-relaxing medicines (alpha-blockers such as tamsulosin) can make you dizzy when you stand up, especially at first, so get up slowly. Tell any eye surgeon you take one, because it can affect cataract surgery. Prostate-shrinking medicines (finasteride, dutasteride) take 3 to 6 months to work, can lower sex drive or affect erections and ejaculation, and lower PSA results by about half, so tell any clinician who orders a PSA. Women who are or may become pregnant shouldn't handle broken finasteride tablets or leaking dutasteride capsules. Don't donate blood while taking them, and wait 1 month after your last dose of finasteride, or 6 months after dutasteride.
Yes, at least once. If this is your first evaluation for urinary symptoms, your clinician arranges an in-person check — a prostate exam and, if needed, a test of how well your bladder empties — at a Passion Health clinic or with a clinician near you, billed like any clinic visit. Your clinician may start treatment while you wait for it, and a urine test is part of every first evaluation.
A clinician may form a valid patient relationship online using store-and-forward technology — your condition-specific intake, photos and records — paired with a call or video when needed, as long as the in-person standard of care is met (Tex. Occ. Code §111.005(a)(3), §111.007). Your clinician gives you guidance on follow-up care and, with your consent, sends new patients' visit notes to their primary care physician within 72 hours (§111.005(b)).
Chief Quality Medical Officer, Passion Health · Texas-licensed internal medicine physician
Reviewed for medical accuracy by Dr. Anantha Chentha, MD, Chief Quality Medical Officer, Passion Health, on October 22, 2026. Pages are reviewed again when clinical guidance or our visit rules change, and the date shown here is updated each time.
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