“Texas Health and Texas Health Physicians Group took all the stress out of running a practice. We are treated as if we’re extremely valuable, important. When I was running my own practice, there weren’t options like this. I would have thought I’d died and gone to heaven to have a group that protected me, helped me and paid me. Since I’ve gone with THR, I have less stress and I make more money than I’ve ever before.”

Paul Anthony, M.D.
THPG member since 2012

“The help THPG provides administratively regarding the business aspects of the office frees me up to be the clinician that I need to be. I’m really pleased to be part of an organization that puts so much emphasis on quality – quality for patient care but also quality of life for employees and their physical and mental health.”

Robert Stahlman, D.O.
THPG member since 2012

“The guidance and support from THGP leadership gives us the ability to quickly manage patients both in-clinic, over the phone and through virtual visits in a timely, efficient and safe manner.”

John Zarosky, M.D.
THPG member since 2013

“If you’re in private practice, you have to worry about all {of the guidelines and protocols} yourself. You have to do your own research and figure out what the recommendations are. But here, THPG hands it to us. Like with Telemedicine, they said, ‘Here is how we do it. Let us train you on it. This is what we’re doing.’ We didn’t have to find a platform, figure out how to do it on our own and determine if insurance would pay for it. After being in private practice a long time — 26 years — I appreciate things like that.”

Linda Parker, M.D.
THPG member since 2014

“I really do feel that THPG is on top of the ball. I do find the communication is a lot better here in terms of guidance and getting feedback from the physicians. You feel more involved here.”

Krishnan Nair, M.D.
THPG member since January 2020

“It’s been a pleasure working for Texas Health with THPG. They don’t micromanage here. They provide all the physicians with the information that they have, but as far as demanding or having recommendations that are absolute, that you must follow to the T, I don’t have anyone here telling me to do that.”

Kenneth Bernal, D.O.
THPG member since November 2019

“For us to have a centralized resource - a team of doctors in our leadership providing the latest clinical research and who practice just like we do – that are helping us make decisions and giving us advice, it relieves a heavy load from us of having to try to do all that ourselves. We have reliable leadership who are very, very upfront and hands-on.”

Antonio Barksdale, M.D.
THPG member since 2016

“All the leaders are current and former practicing physicians. I think that’s always a big thing because they face the same things that we face so they are more aware of the practical aspects of what the physicians go through and what happens in the clinics or at the hospitals so obviously they can help us better.”

Uzma Jalal, M.D.
THPG member since 2017

“THPG leadership made sure everybody was trained and well-equipped so we could do virtual visits during the pandemic. We were always open, and we saw patients. That was commendable because everything was done so quick. Patients were really happy because they didn’t have to come in.”

Uzma Jalal, M.D.
THPG member since 2017

“My staff and I valued the way that THPG responded with starting telemedicine in a very rapid way so we could utilize virtual visits.”

Suthee Thumasathit, M.D.
THPG member since 2012

“During the pandemic, we were able to continue to practice as usual in our office. We were seeing patients in the morning and then virtual patients in the afternoon, which was one of the things THPG was able to facilitate quickly. We were just seeing fairly the same number of patients with very little change.”

Kenneth Bernal, D.O.
THPG member since November 2019

Dr. John Zarosky, a THPG member since 2013, uses a mixture of in-person and virtual visits depending on the preference of his patients.

“It’s not a one-size-fits-all approach to patient care with THPG. They were able to take my personal situation and allow me to kind of mold how I wanted my practice to run with virtual visits. I was so appreciative of that – to not feel pressure from an organization to go back to seeing patients before I was comfortable. I was only able to do that and still be relatively productive because of the virtual visits and all the work that was put in behind the scenes. The patients love it and I don’t think that working anywhere else other than THPG would give me that flexibility to make that schedule change and modification.”

John Zarosky, M.D.
THPG member since 2013

“Some of my friends and other physicians who have been in private practice have had to close down their practices or they were having a great deal of financial issues keeping their practice open. As Texas Health physicians, we haven’t had to deal with that. You don’t have to worry about how you’re going to pay the next salary or the electric bill or the utility bills because Texas Health has been taking care of that.”

Linda Parker, M.D.
THPG member since 2014

“Because of the compensation protection of working with Texas Health during the pandemic, we didn’t have to worry about whether or not we were going to go negative financially.”

Suthee Thumasathit, M.D.
THPG member since 2012

“Financially, they totally took over our overhead, which I really appreciate because I had my own office for many years and ran my own finances and it’s extremely stressful to go through a time when your income goes down and then you have to pay your overhead. For doctors in private practice, what you pay yourself is what’s left after you pay all your overhead. If I was back in private practice during the COVID pandemic, I would have been losing a significant amount of money. You almost certainly would have had to do something with your staff, such as cutbacks or furloughs, and that would create a tremendous amount of stress and distress among your office. But THPG continued to pay all our personnel regardless of what was going on externally or income coming in so that was a tremendous stress reliever.”

Paul Anthony, M.D.
THPG member since 2012

Dr. Antonio Barksdale, who previously worked in a private practice before joining THPG, says he can’t imagine how he would have weathered the pandemic without THPG.

“I think we probably would have ended up closing our doors because it was so uncertain. To try to come up with a good virtual platform, I probably could have seen patients virtually but not billed for it. That would have been a nightmare trying to work through those decision points as a solo doctor in private practice. I would have definitely lost lots of sleep from that.”

“By far one of the major benefits to being with THPG is I didn’t have the fear of my practice shutting down. There were doctors out there who obviously had to close their doors these past few years, which is just heartbreaking to think about. But we never had the fear of closing our doors. We did have a month or so of a very slow pace, but we never did shut our doors. They stepped up and did that for us which was major. Major.”

Antonio Barksdale, M.D.
THPG member since 2016