Direct primary care is a membership relationship between you and your provider. You pay the practice directly instead of routing care through insurance. That single change removes the billing pressure that produces 12-minute visits, and it is what makes a longer, more thorough appointment structurally possible rather than just aspirational.

No. Avalon is cash-pay. The membership replaces the insurance relationship rather than billing through it. Many members keep a separate plan for hospitalization, specialists, and emergencies — Avalon is your primary care and root-cause layer, not your catastrophic coverage.

Avalon is a telehealth-only practice serving patients in Indiana. Visits happen by video from wherever you are — your kitchen, your car on a lunch break, your living room. There is no drive, no waiting room, and no rearranging your day around a fifteen-minute appointment.

No. Avalon is integrative, not alternative-only — and the difference matters. Angie is a nurse practitioner grounded in conventional primary care who also practices functional medicine. Prescriptions, diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals all have their place. They are part of the whole picture. They are just not the whole answer.

Because so much of what patients experience traces back to it — fatigue, mood shifts, stubborn weight, sleep disruption, skin flares. The gut sits at the center of energy, mood, digestion, immunity, and skin health. When it is off, the effects ripple outward into nearly every system. Starting there is not a philosophy; it is where the highest-yield answers tend to be.

Yes. Angie is a licensed nurse practitioner with more than two decades in conventional healthcare, and she prescribes when a prescription is genuinely the right tool. What changes at Avalon is that a prescription is not the automatic end of the conversation — we still look for what is driving the symptom underneath it.

Labs are ordered as part of your protocol, and Root Cause Care includes a 21-marker functional panel. You will know which markers we are running and why before anything is drawn, and we go through the results together rather than sending you a PDF with a green checkmark on it. Confirmatory retesting is built in, so we can prove what changed.

No. Avalon works alongside the specialists and care you already have. Angie refers out when a case calls for it — that is part of practicing conventional medicine honestly. What Avalon adds is the connective layer that specialty care usually does not have room for: someone looking at the whole picture and asking why.

If you mainly want a real primary care relationship — someone who knows you, has time, and is reachable — start with Foundations. If you have been told nothing is wrong and you know otherwise, Root Cause Care is where the lab work and written protocol begin. Complete Restoration is for complex, multi-system cases that need monthly attention. The discovery call exists to sort this out with you.

Foundations has no enrollment fee. Root Cause Care has a one-time $1,000 enrollment fee and Complete Restoration is $1,500 — separate from the monthly membership and paid once when you join. It reflects the front-loaded work of starting a root-cause investigation: the full intake, the lab panel, and the protocol built from it. Angie walks through exactly what is included on your discovery call, before you commit to anything.

Foundations is a straightforward monthly membership with no long-term contract. Terms for Root Cause Care and Complete Restoration are covered on your discovery call — ask directly, and you will get a direct answer before any money changes hands.

A wellness visit is the planned, unhurried appointment where the investigation happens — history, lab review, protocol adjustments. Root Cause Care includes four of those per year, one per quarter. A “sick” visit is for something acute that comes up in between: a sinus infection, a UTI, a flare. Root Cause Care includes six of those per year at no extra charge, so getting sick never becomes a reason to hesitate before reaching out.

The 21-marker panel is included with Root Cause Care, and Complete Restoration includes an expanded panel plus specialized gut stool testing. Supplements are separate — Root Cause Care members get 5% off and Complete Restoration members get 10% off. Nothing gets recommended that your protocol does not call for, and costs are discussed before anything is ordered.

Included with Complete Restoration, it is the layer that turns a written protocol into something you can actually live. A plan that looks correct on paper and does not survive a real week is not a plan. Coaching closes that gap — the habits, the sequencing, the practical adjustments that make the protocol stick.

Yes — that is exactly what Foundations is designed for. It is a foundation for future upgrade to root-cause lab work as your needs grow. Plenty of people start there to build the relationship first and move to Root Cause Care when they are ready for the full investigation.

It depends on what we find and how long it has been going on, and anyone who gives you a number without seeing your labs is selling something. What we can commit to is a real timeline: intake and labs in the first few weeks, results and a written protocol after that, and confirmatory retesting so progress is measured rather than assumed.