The Student Health Center is staffed by several full-time physicians and nurse practitioners. We offer medical care similar to what you would receive from your family physician.
Please call 512.245.2161 to schedule future and same-day appointments.
Nurse Clinic
The Nurse Clinic provides a broad range of reasonably priced services for patients, including: blood pressure screening, wound care, spirometry and other services listed below.
- Initial injection: $25
- Each subsequent visit: $15
- Regardless of how many injections you receive at that time.
- Anonymous HIV testing is done without any personal information (including name, medical history or anything else) being attached to your visit. When you call to make the appointment, the appointment clerk will ask for a name to call in the lobby; give him/her any name you like. Check in with the receptionist by giving her the name you are using and a nurse will call you back for brief counseling questions. The nurse then sends you to the lab. Once the blood sample is collected, the lab technician will give you a number to identify which sample is yours.
- Confidential HIV testing is similar to any other office visit. The results are included in your medical record, but kept in the strictest confidence. Medical record confidentiality is protected under state and federal law.
- Two-day test: $25
- Thirty-minute test: $40
- Hepatitis A (series of two injections): $40 each
- Hepatitis B (series of three injections)
- Under age 20: $20 each
- Age 20 and up: $40 each
- Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B Combo (series of three injections): $65 each
- HPV Vaccine (series of three injection): $150 each
- Measles, Mumps and Rubella: $55
- Meningitis: $85
- Tetanus/Diphtheria/Pertussis: $45
- Varicella (Chicken Pox, series of two injections): $105 each
- Urine test: $20
- Blood test: $30
- Not available on Thursdays: $15
- Student
- Initial visit, materials and folllow up = FREE
- Faculty or staff
- Initial visit = $10
- Materials and follow up = no charge
The QUIT Program is a smoking cessation program offered to students, faculty and staff. Participants receive a personal assessment, private counseling with a nurse, self-help materials, information about smoking cessation aids and follow-up support. If additional appointments are needed, students can see a Student Health Center physician. The office-visit charge to see a physician is $10 for enrolled students. Faculty and staff who need prescription medication should make an appointment with their primary care physician (PCP). Discounted smoking cessation medications are available in the Student Health Center Pharmacy.
The Student Health Center women's clinic is designed to provide women with a comfortable environment where women feel at ease and respected, and can ask questions of a sensitive or uncomfortable nature. The women's clinic provides several services including annual female health maintenance exams and other routine gynecological exams.
- Female health maintenance exams may include:
- Breast exam
- Pap smear
- STI screening for Chlamydia and gonorrhea
Other services include birth control counseling and other prescription refills, evaluation and treatment of menstrual concerns and evaluation and treatment of common gynecological conditions and other reproductive health concerns, such as vaginal infections.
See which birth control options we offer at the Student Health Center.
Condoms are available over-the-counter from the cashier's desk.
DepoProvera
- If you have been receiving DepoProvera injections at another facility and want to begin receiving injections at the SHC, fax a—b below to the attention of “Nurse Clinic” at 512-245-9288. A nurse will review the records and call back to schedule the appointment.
a) A Doctor’s, Physician’s Assistant’s or Nurse Practitioner’s order to give the DepoProvera.
b) The injection record to show when you received the last injection.
- If you have NOT been receiving injections but want to, schedule an appointment to see a Nurse Practitioner.
Gardasil : Information Leaflet
(PDF, 1752.7 KB)The Student Health also carries the Gardasil vaccine. Click to view complete information concerning vaccine.
The physicians at the Student Health Center treat patients with mental health concerns, such as:
- ADHD
- Adjustment problems related to college
- Anxiety problems
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Panic attacks
Psychiatry
Limited psychiatric services are available for students without health insurance who have a high financial need. Psychiatrists see patients by referral only from Student Health Center medical providers or Counseling Center counselors.
Cost
- One hour visits: $35
- Thirty minute visits: $20
Cancellation
- Psychiatry appointments must be cancelled at least 24 hours in advance. The no-show charge for all psychiatry appointments is $20.
Please call 512.245.2161 if you have any questions or need more information.
On-site laboratory and state of the art digital radiology (x-ray) services are available.
- Many lab tests are performed while you wait.
- Most lab results are available within two days.
- X-rays are performed on site.
Referrals
We can perform lab tests or x-rays ordered by your private physician.
Simply provide a doctor's order and the results can be faxed to that doctor's office.
STI and Anonymous HIV Testing
 Brown Bag Special Condoms can be discreetly purchased at the cashier's desk in the lobby of the Student Health Center. No appointment is necessary. You can receive 20 lubricated Lifestyles Condoms for $5, or 12 Trojan Condoms for $5.50. Both are conveniently packaged in a brown paper bag, just like our other over-the-counter medications. - Numerous studies have shown that latex condoms, when used consistently and correctly, are highly effective in preventing the transmission of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
- Latex condoms, when used consistently and correctly, have been shown to reduce the risk of transmission of gonorrhea, Chlamydia, and trichomoniasis.
- Correct and consistent use of male latex condoms reduces the risk of transmitting genital herpes, syphilis, and chancroid when the infected area or site of potential exposure is covered and protected.
- Consistent condom use reduces the risk of recurrent pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and related complications.
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- Anonymous HIV testing is done without any personal information (including name, medical history or anything else) being attached to your visit. When you call to make the appointment, the appointment clerk will ask for a name to call in the lobby; give him/her any name you like. Check in with the receptionist by giving her the name you are using and a nurse will call you back for brief counseling questions. The nurse then sends you to the lab. Once the blood sample is collected, the lab technician will give you a number to identify which sample is yours.
- Confidential HIV testing is similar to any other office visit. The results are included in your medical record, but kept with the strictest confidence. Medical record confidentiality is protected under state and federal law.
- Two-day test: $25
- Thirty-minute test: $40
- swab: $20
- urine test: $25
- swab: $20
- urine test: $25
- culture of sore: $40
- blood test: $60
- thin pap-smear: $40
- HPV testing: $60
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