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Swollen ankles need a hands-on exam and often a few tests. Book a same-day visit at a Passion Health clinic in DFW.
Not online. Swollen ankles need a hands-on exam and often a few tests. Book a same-day visit at a Passion Health clinic in DFW. 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
Swollen ankles (edema) happen when fluid builds up in the lower legs. Common causes include long periods of sitting or standing, heat, salty food, pregnancy, vein problems and some medicines, including certain blood pressure pills. Swelling can also signal a blood clot or heart, kidney or liver disease, so it needs an in-person exam and often tests.
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.
Swollen ankles 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.
Swelling can come from something simple, like heat or a medicine, or from a blood clot, heart failure, or kidney or liver disease. Telling these apart needs a hands-on exam, such as pressing the skin, listening to your heart and lungs and checking your pulses, and often a urine test, blood tests or an ECG the same day. That's why we book you into a clinic.
Raise your legs above heart level when resting, walk regularly, and cut back on salty foods. Don't stop a prescribed medicine on your own, even if you think it's causing the swelling; bring a list of your medicines to the visit instead. If one leg suddenly swells or hurts, or you become short of breath, go to the ER or call 911.
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.
Sources: NHLBI · AAFP · MedlinePlus
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