Michael Kittell, MD

"Growing up with family members in the medical field, Dr. Michael Kittell always knew that he wanted to be a physician. Dr. Kittell was born in Philadelphia but his family moved to Arkansas in the 1980s. After college, he went on to medical school and continued his family medicine residency with UAMS in Fort Smith and Pine Bluff. After completing his residency, he took the traditional path of a primary care physician for many years before realizing his discontentment with the traditional care model. He needed a disrupt, a different way to do medicine, and found that in Direct Primary Care a means in which he could remove barriers to care and prioritize patients. A redesigned focus of care to prevention of disease before it happens. And so, the Kittell Clinic opened full time on April 8, 2019.

"Kittell Clinic is unique in that it is a patient-centric clinic and employs the direct pay practice model versus the traditional method. In a direct pay clinic, payment is from the patient only; insurance is not filed. While we don’t file insurance, we do provide patients with the necessary documentation to provide to their insurance companies should the patient decide to file for non-network benefits. Each insurance carrier is different, but many do offer some type of coverage for out-of-network providers. Patients can even use their health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts to pay for services. It also allows patients to have another option for their healthcare."