We are excited to announce that Dr. Abby Richardson will join Family Practice Associates on January 8, 2024.

Dr. Richardson completed her family medicine residency through UNMC's rural residency program, spending two years at our clinic from July 2020 - June 2022 before joining CHI Kearney Clinic where she had a busy practice.  We are now happy to welcome her back to FPA on a permanent, full-time basis!

Dr. Richardson practices full-scope family medicine with obstetrics.  She is bilingual (English/Spanish).  Se habla espanol.

To learn more about Dr. Richardson, please contact us at 308-865-2767.

If you are an established patient and have a non-life threatening health care issue that needs immediate attention, and just can't wait until office hours, call us first!

Family Practice Associates has a provider on-call, at 308-865-2767, 24 hours a day  for your immediate health care needs.  We can direct you to the best course of action, and help keep you out of the emergency room when it is not necessary, saving you time and money!

If you think you or a loved one may be having a medical emergency, such as a heart attack, stroke, or serious injury, you should call 911 or go to the emergency room right way.

Nurse Practitioner, Amy Pape, provides Acute, same-day care to our walk-in patients experiencing illness or injury.  She will also now join the team of Dr. Messbarger and Dr. Myers is providing prenatal care to their OB patients.

Prior to becoming a Nurse Practitioner, Amy worked at the KRMC Maternity Care Center for five years.  She has an excellent rapport with patients, and has a strong background in the field.  

To learn more about Amy, or any of our providers, contact us at 308-865-2767 or go to our "Doctors and Staff page".  

All of our doctors provide low-risk OB care, and deliver at both CHI Good Samaritan Hospital and Kearney Regional Medical Center.  They take care of patients from the very first heartbeat.

The Healthy Blue Medicaid plan ended on December 31, 2023.  As of January 1, 2024, we will not be in network with Molina, the Medicaid plan replacing Healthy Blue.  

Patients who did not make a choice to move to UHC Community Plan or Nebraska Total Care once Healthy Blue ended were auto-transferred to Molina.

We are still in-network with Nebraska Total Care and United Healthcare Community Plan. If you are currently a Molina member who was auto-switched to Molina, you now have until March 29, 2024 to contact DHHS at 888-255-2605 and ask to be switched to a different Medicaid payer.

DHHS Choice Counselors:  888-255-2605.

Thank you!

Our lab performs certain tests in-house and sends other tests out to reference labs.

As such, certain laboratory tests collected at our office may be performed and billed to your insurance company or directly to you by:

•  UNMC
•  Regional Pathology Services
•  Kearney Regional Medical Center
•  BryanLGH
•   or CHI Health Good Samaritan.

If your insurance company is not in-network with certain providers, facilities, or reference labs, it is your responsibility to let us know.   If you are unaware of what labs are in-network for you, please check with your company or visit with a member of our Billing Staff at 308-865-2767.

Please note, if your testing is sent to an out-of-network lab, you may be responsible for a higher out-of-pocket cost.

Sports, kindergarten, 7th grade and college physicals are important and required by schools.

But, your child should really have a visit every year.

Well -child visits are an important way to ensure your child stays healthy and that any concerns are identified quickly.  These visits, which are normally paid at 100% by insurance companies, track growth and developmental milestones; and allow you and your child to disucss any health issues, including mental health.  They are also key to keeping up-to-date with important immunizations, and scheduling any necessary screenings.

Please contact us at 308-865-2767 if you have any questions or to schedule an appointment.

You may receive calls and/or texts from Family Practice Associates to remind you of your appointments or that it is time for a check-up, lab or vaccination.   You may also receive calls from a company named PRC to survey you about your visit - this is required by a CMS program we are part of that is studying care.  These are valid, legitimate calls.

Recently, we have been told that patients have received calls from scammers claiming to be Medicare or Family Practice Associates.  The scammer states the patient's insurance card will be cancelled if the patient doesn't answer a series of questions that may compromise personal information.  Or, the company tries to set the patient up with medical equipment, and bill insurance on the patient's behalf. This is typically equipment the patient has never discussed with a provider.  Some of these companies are legitmate.
Some are not, and may be defrauding Medicare and other payers.

If you are in doubt of whether a caller is really affiliated with us or not, please hang up and call us directly at 308-865-2767.