Musician Primary Care Program at H-E-B Wellness Primary Care

Generously supported by Clifford & Leigh Chiu in honor of Robert F. Smith

We are so excited to announce a new primary care resource for our uninsured musicians, DJs and music teachers! Read on to see if this is the right program for you.

HAAM members who are not insured are now eligible for our new Musician Primary Care Program (MPCP) provided by H-E-B Wellness Primary Care (H-E-B WPC).

This program breaks down barriers and provides access to primary healthcare for musicians who may not be eligible to access traditional insurance through the ACA Marketplace due to finances, immigration status, or other reasons.

What’s Included:

Through this program, you can go to the H-E-B WPC clinic of your choice (view locations here) for your primary care needs (think annual wellness visit, colds, flu, managing a chronic condition like diabetes or high blood pressure etc.).

You can also access your provider while on the road through 24/7 telehealth* across Texas. When you’re at the clinic, H-E-B WPC provides basic lab testing, immunizations, and select specialty services.

With MPCP you have a go-to medical home, a primary care provider that you know by name, and friendly staff helping you with your wellness journey.

How to Sign Up:

If you are uninsured and interested in learning more about the Musician Primary Care Program at H-E-B Wellness Primary Care, please contact us at support@myhaam.org.

The fine print:

The MPCP is a direct primary care program and is not insurance. The services offered are limited by the scope of what H-E-B WPC provides directly to their patients. By enrolling in this program, you have access to amazing primary care services, however you are not covered by insurance. This means that some of your healthcare needs, including hospitalization, specialty care, emergency care, or other conditions will not be covered by the MPCP. Costs for prescription medication and services outside the scope of what the MPCP offers through H-E-B WPC will be your responsibility. As always, HAAM is here to help you troubleshoot your healthcare needs.

If you are a HAAM member who is covered by an ACA marketplace plan, you have access to primary care through your insurance network. For more information on how to use your insurance to access primary care, specialty care, prescription coverage, and hospital care, click here.

*Phone access to medical guidance for non-emergency related care.

Robert F. Smith was born to two working-class parents in a predominantly Black, middle-class neighborhood in Denver, Colorado. From an early age, his parents stressed the importance of giving back and supporting his community. He first learned that everyone had a role to play in creating a better world from watching his parents, who donated their limited resources to charities like United Negro College Fund (UNCF) on an ongoing basis, no matter what was happening in their personal lives.

In 1985, Smith earned a degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University. After graduating, he began working in the engineering industry in applied research and development and received two U.S. and two European patents and numerous awards. He graduated with honors from Columbia Business School in 1994 and entered investment banking in mergers and acquisitions for Goldman Sachs in New York City and later San Francisco. To empower technology companies in the enterprise software market, Smith launched Vista Equity Partners (Vista), a leading global investment firm, in 2000. Under his leadership, the firm’s portfolio has grown to include some of the world’s leading enterprise software companies.
Throughout his life, Smith’s commitment to philanthropy and equity has never wavered, and finding ways to make a difference in the communities where he lives and works is central to his character and approach to life. During his 2019 commencement address at Morehouse College, a Historically Black College, Smith surprised the graduating class by pledging to pay off the entire class’ student loan debt — a $34 million gift that helped nearly 400 graduates. After his Morehouse pledge, Smith founded Student Freedom Initiative to relieve the crushing burden of student debt for STEM students at all HBCUs.

Smith is the founding director and President of the Fund II Foundation, which is dedicated to preserving the African American experience, safeguarding human rights, providing music education, preserving the environment while promoting the benefits of the outdoors, and sustaining critical American values. In January 2016, Cornell University honored Mr. Smith’s leadership by naming the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

In 2017, Smith signed on to the Giving Pledge, the only African American to do so. His gift of $20 million was the largest by an individual donor to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Smith is the Chairman of Carnegie Hall. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Business Roundtable, the Board of Overseers of Columbia Business School, as a Member of the Cornell Engineering College Council, and is a Trustee of the Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco.

Smith has been a leading voice advocating for companies to take diverse internship candidates in STEM fields. Under his leadership, in 2019, Fund II Foundation launched internXL, a platform to match leading companies with diverse internship candidates.

Smith also has been a strong advocate for what he has named the 2% Solution – calling on large corporations to commit 2% of their annual net income for the next decade to empower minority communities.

He is also a major donor to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Student Freedom Initiative and the Prostate Cancer Foundation, among many others.