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Texas Children’s Fetal Center®
If you are a patient, please visit Texas Children’s Fetal Center® for more contact, scheduling, and location information.
Referring Provider Instructions
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Referring Provider Instructions
To refer your patient to the Texas Children’s Fetal Center®, please complete the following steps.
- Complete the online referral form or download and complete the paper referral form or submit via Texas Children's Link
Note: Our online referral forms must be completed using an updated browser such as Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome or Safari. Users are no longer able to successfully complete our forms using Internet Explorer.
- Provide patient with scheduling instructions
- Options for additional contact
- By Phone: Our phones are answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 832-822-2229 or toll-free 877-338-2579.
- By Email: fetalcenter@texaschildrens.org (For urgent matters, contact us by phone)
- By Fax: Fax a referral form, along with all necessary medical records, to 832-824-7333.
- Follow your patients’ care
Request access or log in to Texas Children's Link, an online provider portal connection to Texas Children’s electronic medical record. With Texas Children's Link, you are able to place and cancel orders and referrals, access patient medical records, view images, receive updates and notifications, and more.
Referral Guidelines
Texas Children’s Fetal Center® physicians have developed a series of medical algorithms to offer guidance for health care professionals in the diagnosis and treatment of several fetal conditions. Please call toll-free 1-877-FetalRx (338-2579) if you would like to discuss a specific case or diagnosis with a physician from Texas Children’s Fetal Center.
Click on the following links to download PDFs of our fetal algorithms.
- Cardiac Intervention
- Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH) 1
- Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia 2
- Cleft Lip/Palate
- Cytomegalovirus
- Fetal Teratoma
- Gastrochisis
- Lung Lesion
- Lower Urinary Tract Obstruction (LUTO)
- Fetal Myelomeningocele Neural Tube Defect
- Omphalocele
- Platelet Alloimmunization 1
- Platelet Alloimmunization 2
- Skeletal Dysplasia
- Spina Bifida - Standard Treatment
- Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS)
- Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome Follow-up
Fetal Center - Austin
To refer your patient to the Texas Children’s Fetal Center® in Austin, please complete the following steps.
- Complete the online referral form or download and complete the paper referral form or submit via Texas Children's Link
Note: Our online referral forms must be completed using an updated browser such as Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome or Safari. Users are no longer able to successfully complete our forms using Internet Explorer.
- Provide patient with scheduling instructions
- Options for additional contact
- By Phone (Austin): Our phones at Specialty Care Austin are answered 8a-5p, M-F, 737-220-8200
- By Phone (Houston): If you need to reach the Texas Children’s Fetal Center in Houston after hours, phones are answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 832-822-2229 or toll-free 877-338-2579
- By Fax: Fax a referral form, along with all necessary medical records, to 832-824-7333.
- Follow your patients’ care
Request access or log in to Texas Children's Link, an online provider portal connection to Texas Children’s electronic medical record. With Texas Children's Link, you are able to place and cancel orders and referrals, access patient medical records, view images, receive updates and notifications, and more.
Need Help?
If you are a referring provider’s office needing referral assistance or a provider needing to speak to an on-call specialist, please contact the Provider Connect team, M-F 8a-5p, excluding holidays:
- Phone: 832-TCH-CARE (832-824-2273)
- Toll-Free: 877-855-4857
- Email: providerconnect@texaschildrens.org