Catawba Valley Healthcare
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What is Catawba Valley Healthcare?
Catawba Valley Healthcare is a non-profit primary care and mental health clinic, established in 2005. It has clinics in Hickory and Valdese, North Carolina, and serves Catawba and Burke counties. It is independent and not affiliated with Catawba Valley Health Systems (CVHS), which is also in Hickory.
Its main work is primary care: adult wellness and preventive care for women and men, chronic illness care and acute care. It also offers mental health services, including medication management, psychiatric evaluation and individual, group and family therapy, plus mobile crisis management in Catawba and Burke counties. Its only hormone service is menopause care, where it offers hormone replacement therapy (HRT). In its own words: "Your provider will help weigh symptom severity, goals, and medical history to determine if HRT is appropriate." It does not name weight loss, peptide or longevity services, or men's hormone therapy.
What does it cost?
It does not publish prices, a consultation fee or membership terms. It does not say whether insurance is accepted, whether it offers a cash-pay rate, or whether hormone medication is included in any charge. It has a Medicaid updates section, but it does not say which plans it takes.
Ask for the cost of the first menopause visit and of each follow-up before you book. Ask whether lab work is billed separately from the visit.
What should you ask before you book?
Start with who writes the prescription. The clinic does not name any prescriber, so ask for the name and credentials of the clinician who would decide on hormone therapy and sign the prescription. Next, ask which form would be used. Its menopause information describes pills, rings, gels, creams, sprays, skin patches and low-dose vaginal products. Ask whether the medication is brand-name or compounded.
Then ask what the visit covers beyond the medication, including follow-up visits, lab work and any extra charges. Ask whether telehealth visits are offered, since the clinic does not say. Finally, ask how insurance is billed and what you would pay if your plan does not cover the visit. The Hickory clinic can be reached at (828) 695-5900.
Who is it a good fit for?
This is a good fit if you want menopause care from an established non-profit primary care clinic with offices in Hickory or Valdese, and you are ready to get price and insurance answers before booking. If you also need mental health care, it offers that too. It is not a fit if you are looking for weight loss, peptide or longevity medicine, since it names none of those services.
Sources: cvhnc.org/connections-clubhouse/connections-employment-programs, cvhnc.org/primary-care-services/womens-health/menopause, cvhnc.org, cvhnc.org/primary-care-services
Services Offered
What we confirmed
Read off Catawba Valley Healthcare’s own website on 2026-10-24. These are their words, not ours.
- ✓Hormone therapy — listed on their site as “Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) uses medications that contain hormones—most commonly estrogen (and sometimes progesterone/progestin)—to replace hormones your body makes less of during menopause.” source
We have not yet collected published prices or prescriber credentials for this clinic. When we do, they will appear here with a link to the page they came from — or a note saying the clinic publishes none, which is itself worth knowing. Call them for a price in the meantime.
Hours
Monday – Friday: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM