Satellite Med

22/07/2025

With school right around the corner, now is a great time to remind our community to get your students in and get those SPORTS PHYSICALS completed! Quick overview of how we handle these:

Sports Physical - $60 walk-in *self-pay* for an abbreviated version of an annual wellness visit. Bring in a school form or we have a packet your Provider can fill out and you will receive a copy for the school.

Annual Wellness Exam - some of our patients use this as an opportunity/reminder to complete their student's annual wellness exam. This is the comprehensive physical exam that you typically file to insurance for the year. If you choose this method, this MUST be a scheduled visit since it requires more time with the Provider!

Our Urgent Care side is open Mon-Fri, 7am-6pm for Sports Physicals.

To schedule an appointment, use the link and choose "schedule an appointment": https://linktr.ee/satellitemed

10/07/2025

📣Attention Patients and Community:

As most of you know, Satellite Med's mission has always been to provide the highest quality care with the best outcomes at the most affordable prices possible. REST ASSURED, these goals are NOT changing. Our mission and vision remain the same even through the hills and valleys that we have faced in this challenging season. We will always strive to offer the best care because that's our primary focus, our patients and the outcomes of their health. We also strive for complete transparency and do our best to publicly notify our patients and community of changes. That said, here are some things that are happening at Satellite Med:

📣We officially began seeing patients with Traditional Medicare on June 9th. There is lots of excitement from patients about getting scheduled to see our Providers, and we love to hear it! We also want everyone to know that we are working DAILY with our Interstate Health family to get credentialed with more and more insurances! Our long-term goal is to be credentialed with nearly any insurance a patient could have. Please know that the credentialing process takes time, and alongside that, please also remember that we keep self-pay costs as low as absolutely possible. It plays into our mission of creating AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE services. Some of the additional insurances we are working to add to our list are:

🕘Railroad Medicare
🕘BCBS Advantage plans
🕘Cigna Healthspring Medicare
🕘Aetna Medicare
🕘UHC Medicare
🕘AARP Medicare
🕘Wellcare
🕘Humana Medicare
🕘Wellpoint

👆Speaking of self-pay prices and transparency: we also want to let everyone know that our self-pay visit prices will increase slightly on Monday, July 14th. The new prices will be $100/visit for established patients and $125/visit for new patients. Physicals will move to $125. Please be assured that this is not an "indication of things to come" because of our merger and this is not "a corporate thing". All year we have been evaluating business costs and continuing to offer comprehensive services that provide MEANINGFUL care and quality measures for our patients. As we've explained this year, insurance reimbursements have been historically low and both Satellite Med and our patients have been directly impacted by this. We CONTINUE to have the most affordable visit costs paired with the most services in medical clinic. Our goal is to keep service prices as low as possible while continuing to add services that complement the level of care that you are accustomed to.

🏥Overview of Services we offer:

✅Walk-in visits for acute care and minor concerns
✅Scheduled appts with a P*P and managed care plans
✅Viral testing - results typically available same-day
✅Imaging - Xray/Cardiac Echos/Full slate of Ultrasound services (lowest price in the state)
✅Labs - full onsite laboratory offering a wide range of phlebotomy services and culture testing, including bloodwork and UAs
✅DOTs - same-day appts available in most cases
✅PRP and Supartz Injections
Cancer and Genetic Testing
✅Weight Loss Visits
✅Dementia Screening
✅Concussion Testing with referrals
✅Medication prescribing and maintenance
✅Telemedicine walk-ins and follow-up appts
✅More services available

🗣We also understand that there has been concern with our ability to answer phones and respond to patients effectively. We are also actively working on adding to our front office/reception team to be able to better manage our call volume and patient communication, so look forward to those coming improvements!

For all the latest news and info, like and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and watch our website!
https://linktr.ee/satellitemed

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❓If you ever have any questions or concerns, reach out to us!
☎️Ph: 931.528.7312
📧Em: info@satellitemed.com

04/07/2025

Satellite Med will be open today until 12pm for your convenience! Happy Independence Day!

24/06/2025

Excited for today's ribbon cutting ceremony! Be sure to watch our page for the LIVE event. So thankful for all of our guests stopping by!

23/06/2025

📣Please be advised📣

We will have slightly abbreviated office hours tomorrow (Tuesday, June 24th) due to a company-wide staff meeting. Office hours tomorrow will be 7am - 4pm.

👆Also, don't forget about our ribbon cutting event tomorrow as we celebrate 20 years and joining the Interstate Health team!

🎥Join us in-person or tune into our Facebook Live event right here on our main page!

12/06/2025

We are seeking multiple candidates for Full-Time Medical Scribe. Starting pay with no experience is $12/hr. $15/hr for MA's. $17/hr for CPhT Certification. Please apply on indeed below! --

Satellite Med

09/06/2025

**CLARIFICATION: To begin the process of accepting Medicare, we will first be accepting TRADITIONAL (red, white, and blue) Medicare ONLY. We will be ramping up this process quickly over time to accept supplementals and other types of Medicare plans.

📣📣Greetings Patients, Cookeville, and Upper Cumberland community! We have a very exciting announcement to make!📣📣

As of today, Monday, June 9th, 2025, we have OFFICIALLY joined the Interstate Health family of clinics!

Additionally, we have some other exciting things to share with this announcement:

🎉Starting today, we are OFFICIALLY ACCEPTING MEDICARE!!!

🎉WELCOMING Archer ANP-C, LLC to Satellite Med

🎉ACCEPTING new patients for walk-ins and Primary Care services

🎉Offering new services, including: full slate of Ultrasound services, PRP treatments, and more coming!

🙌🏻All of our current Providers (Dr. Cates, Larissa, Cora, and Bill) will remain with the clinic moving forward.

We can't express enough how much we appreciate all of our patients and the community always supporting us and trusting us with their care! Great days are ahead as we continue moving forward!

Full press release provided here --->https://satellitemed.com/IHSPressRelease.pdf

Satellite Med
1120 Sams St, 38506
931.528.7312
linktr.ee/satellitemed
www.satellitemed.com
www.interstatehealth.com

22/05/2025

We will have abbreviated office hours on Monday, May 26, 2025 for Memorial Day. We will be open 7am - 12pm.