Genetic Testing

Deland Medical Wellness Center is proud to offer PGx testing for mental health. Pharmacogenomics, also known as PGx, is the study of how a person’s genes affects how he or she responds to medications. The goal of PGx is to help doctors personalize a patient’s treatment – selecting the drugs and doses best suited for each individual patient. Deland Medical Wellness Center has partnered with a U.S. based genetics testing company that offers an advanced precision medicine solution that sets a new standard for comprehensive tailored PGX testing. Their unique bioinformatics platform integrates drug-gene, drug-drug metabolic interactions and lifestyle factors into a clinically actionable report.

No mental health treatment is right for everyone. A complex interplay of factors impacts how fast a patient will metabolize a medication, the side effects they experience, and whether the medication will help the patient reach remission.   

Without tools to help predict a patient’s response to medications, clinicians have had to resort to trial and error. For many, the path to the right treatment can be long, hard, and discouraging – patients may try multiple drugs and wait many months before they find one that works and has tolerable side effects. Trial and error no longer needs to be the standard of care for mental health treatment. Deland Medical Wellness Center offers a comprehensive pharmacogenomic test proven to help improve medication response and remission rates.   

In a randomized controlled trial, patients whose clinicians received their test results had a better chance of responding to medication and achieving remission. Deland Medical Wellness Centers offers the PGx test for $150. This will include your doctor visit and explanation of test results. The actual PGx test will be covered by your insurance or depending on your income level the cost of the test may be fully covered if you do not have insurance. Each situation is treated on a case by case basis if you do not have insurance. To learn more about PGx testing or to schedule your appointment give us a call or text at 386-279-4588 or email us at info@delandmedicalwellness.com