OriginalMD
Genetics-informed primary care. Denver, Colorado.
Most primary care visits last fifteen minutes. Most specialists treat a single organ system. Medical records are divided among portals that do not communicate. For patients with rare or inherited conditions, or with symptoms that remain unexplained, this model fails quietly and repeatedly.
One physician, trained in both family medicine and clinical genetics, provides the full scope of primary care: diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and management of acute and chronic illness, from early adulthood through late life. A small panel preserves the time this work requires.
The Practice
Genetics-informed primary care for adults
Genetics-informed primary care for adults, integrating family medicine and clinical genetics in one physician. Small panel. Extended visits. Direct physician access. Comprehensive primary and preventive care, with particular depth in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, rare and inherited conditions, and cases that remain undiagnosed.
Clinical approach
Before the first visit, Dr. Long evaluates your prior care in full: previous workup, imaging, laboratory results, specialist notes, and treatments already tried. The initial appointment lasts 60 to 90 minutes and concludes with an initial diagnostic and treatment plan, developed with you.
Once your visit is scheduled, you sign a release and we request your records from your prior clinicians directly. Please do not send medical records by email.
Dr. Long orders each test to answer a defined clinical question. When a result is inconclusive, including a variant of uncertain significance, he states that uncertainty plainly and decides the next step with you. He coordinates specialist referrals physician to physician and integrates their recommendations into a single plan, and he individualizes screening and prevention to your genetics, family history, and risk factors.
Continuity
The same physician directs your care over time, revising the plan as your health changes and reinterpreting your genetic findings as the evidence develops.
Patrick Long, MD
Family Medicine · Medical Genetics
Dual-trained in family medicine and clinical genetics, with additional fellowship training in biochemical genetics. The two disciplines are practiced together: the physician managing your blood pressure, diabetes, or acute illness is the same physician ordering and interpreting your genetic testing.
Patrick Long, MD, sees patients exclusively at OriginalMD, 1601 E 19th Ave, Ste 6450, Denver, CO 80218.
Education and training
- Undergraduate
- Michigan State University, Lyman Briggs College
BS in Genomics · BS in Molecular Diagnostics - Medical school
- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Doctor of Medicine - Residency
- Detroit Medical Center / Michigan State University
Family Medicine - Residency
- University of Colorado School of Medicine
Medical Genetics and Genomics - Fellowship
- Children's Hospital of Colorado
Medical Biochemical Genetics
Clinical experience
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and connective tissue disorders, mitochondrial disease, inherited cancer syndromes, inborn errors of metabolism, rare disease, and undiagnosed patients requiring multi-specialist coordination.
How It Works
What membership looks like over time
Dr. Long obtains and evaluates your prior workup before the first visit. A 60- to 90-minute initial appointment covering clinical history, current concerns, and goals of care, concluding with a preliminary plan.
Targeted diagnostic testing, initiation of treatment, and specialist coordination as indicated. You reach the practice directly; there is no phone tree.
Ongoing management of chronic conditions and screening individualized to your genetics and family history. An annual comprehensive reassessment, with the plan updated as clinical and genetic evidence develops.
Adults, from early adulthood through late life, seeking a long-term partnership with a physician who provides comprehensive primary care informed by genetics. Particularly suited to rare disease, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, conditions that remain undiagnosed or incompletely explained, and patients who want their genetic information applied to routine care.
Services
Three ways to start
Dedicated time on a defined clinical question, addressed across family medicine and clinical genetics. It concludes with a specific diagnostic and management plan. Dr. Long evaluates relevant prior records, provided in advance, before the visit.
$850 · 90 minutes Request a visitGenetic counseling with Dr. Long, a physician who orders and interprets your testing. For a specific genetics question: a test to order, a result to review, or a known variant in your family. About 60 minutes, in person or by telehealth in Colorado. Follow-up visits after an initial consultation are the same fee.
$450 per visit Request a visitA continuing partnership with your physician. Scope, structure, and cost are defined after an initial consultation. The first membership visit lasts 60 to 90 minutes.
Personalized · set after an initial consultation Request a visitOriginalMD does not bill insurance. When the results of an Initial Consultation need a conversation, Dr. Long reviews them with you at a Genetic Counseling visit, charged per visit. The laboratory bills for testing. You have the right to a written Good Faith Estimate of expected charges before care begins.
If you are enrolled in, or eligible for, Medicare, including Original Medicare Part A or Part B or a Medicare Advantage plan, we can care for you. An additional required agreement, the Medicare Private Contract, will be included in your intake documents. If you are enrolled in Medicaid, including Health First Colorado or any other state Medicaid program, or in TRICARE, CHAMPVA, VA health benefits, or another government health benefit program, OriginalMD is unable to provide services to you. Please contact us before booking rather than scheduling a visit.
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Location
OriginalMD
1601 E 19th Ave, Ste 6450
Denver, CO 80218
Hours
By appointment only, Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM MT.
Licensure
Colorado.
Telehealth visits are available to patients located in Colorado. Whether a visit is telehealth or in person is determined when the appointment is scheduled.
If Dr. Long has cared for you before, email or call and we will arrange your visit.
For members, Dr. Long addresses acute, non-emergency concerns by direct message during practice hours.
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