Side or back pain that comes in waves needs a urine test and exam. Book a same-day visit at a Passion Health clinic.
Not online. Side or back pain that comes in waves needs a urine test and exam. Book a same-day visit at a Passion Health clinic. After a two-minute online safety check, you're booked into a same-day visit at a Passion Health clinic in Dallas–Fort Worth, billed like any clinic visit to your insurance or as a self-pay visit. There's no online fee. Outside Dallas–Fort Worth, please see an urgent care center or your own clinician instead.
Medically reviewed by Dr. Anantha Chentha, MD, Chief Quality Medical Officer, Passion Health · October 22, 2026
A kidney stone is a hard deposit of minerals and salts that forms inside the kidney. Small stones may pass unnoticed, but a stone moving toward the bladder can cause severe pain in the side or back that spreads to the groin, with blood in the urine, nausea and vomiting. Not drinking enough fluids and diet raise the risk.
A same-day visit usually includes a urine test, an exam, pain and nausea treatment, and a decision about imaging, such as a CT scan or ultrasound. If you pass a stone, save it so it can be sent for analysis. After a first stone or repeat stones, your clinician may recommend blood and urine tests to find out why stones are forming and how to prevent the next one.
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. There's no charge for the online safety check. If it tells you to call 911 or go to an emergency room, do that instead of booking.
Two minutes. Emergencies are sent to 911 right away.
At any Passion Health clinic in Dallas–Fort Worth, or call us. Outside Dallas–Fort Worth, see an urgent care center or your own clinician.
The clinician examines you and does any tests needed that day.
To your insurance, or as a self-pay clinic visit. No online fee.
Your visit is billed as a normal clinic visit — to your insurance with your usual cost-share, or as a self-pay visit. There's no charge for the online safety check.
Labs and imaging, if needed, are billed separately, and medication is paid at your pharmacy. Passion Health doesn't sell, ship or mark up medication.
Your clinician plans follow-up at the visit.
There's no online fee. Your visit is billed as a normal clinic visit — to your insurance with your usual copay or deductible, or as a self-pay clinic visit. Any tests done that day are billed separately — to your insurance, or at the self-pay price shown to you before the test.
Kidney stones needs a hands-on exam — and sometimes a test — to be evaluated safely. Rather than charge for an online visit that would end in "please come in", we screen for emergencies and book you straight into a same-day visit at one of our Dallas–Fort Worth clinics. Outside Dallas–Fort Worth, please see an urgent care center or your own clinician.
Pain in the side or back can come from a stone, but also from a kidney infection, appendicitis, a problem with the main artery in the belly, or other urgent causes. Telling them apart needs an exam, a urine test and sometimes blood tests or imaging the same day. A stone with infection or a blocked kidney can become serious quickly, so it isn't handled online.
For most people, the most important step is drinking enough fluid to make about 2 to 2.5 liters of urine a day. Limiting salt and large amounts of animal protein helps too. Depending on your stone type, your clinician may suggest other diet changes, tests to find the cause, or medicine. Don't cut out calcium-rich foods unless advised, because that can backfire.
This condition needs a hands-on exam to meet the standard of care, so it is booked in person. The standard of care online is the same as in person, and no agency may impose a higher one (Tex. Occ. Code §111.007; 22 TAC §175.2).
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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