One provider,
from your first call to your last visit.
Scott Adler, PA-C, has been practicing medicine as a PA since 2010: hospital wards, emergency rooms, and more than eight years helping run a rural urgent care before opening Summit Health Clinic in 2023. He builds every treatment plan here, and he is the one who follows it.
Scott Adler, PA-C
Owner and provider, Summit Health Clinic
Scott earned his physician assistant degree in 2010 and spent the next thirteen years in the parts of medicine where you learn fast: two years as a hospitalist PA managing admitted patients, two years as an emergency room provider, and roughly eight years helping run a rural urgent care, where he treated everyone from infants to the very elderly. Scott is comfortable with what falls outside the textbook, and with meeting you exactly where you are in your health journey.
That background is why Summit Health looks the way it does. Hormone therapy, weight loss, and longevity medicine sit on top of general medicine, not beside it, and a provider who has spent years reading labs, catching the thing nobody was looking for, and managing patients who were genuinely sick brings a different kind of attention to a wellness visit.
He opened Summit Health in Springfield in 2023. Every plan here is built, prescribed, and monitored by Scott personally. There is no rotating staff and no handoff.
Training, certification, and licensure
Education
Physician assistant degree, 2010. Trained in internal medicine, with clinical experience across hospital, emergency, and acute care settings.
Board certification
Certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA), the national certifying body for PAs in the United States.
State licensure
Licensed to practice as a physician assistant in the state of Missouri.
Professional membership
Member of the Obesity Medicine Association, the largest organization of clinicians dedicated to the treatment of obesity as a medical condition.
Thirteen years before Summit
Hospitalist PA
Managing admitted patients in internal medicine: the complex, multi-diagnosis cases where medications interact and small lab changes matter.
Emergency room provider
Emergency medicine, where you learn to sort the urgent from the merely alarming quickly and accurately.
Rural urgent care
Helping run a rural urgent care, treating patients of every age across a wide range of acute conditions, often as the only provider on site.
Founded Summit Health Clinic
Opened a direct-pay clinic in Springfield built around longevity, hormone health, and medical weight loss.
Why he opened Summit Health
Traditional practice is built to treat what has already gone wrong. A twelve-minute visit, a diagnosis, a prescription, and a follow-up in six months. It works when you are sick. It does very little for the person who is not sick yet but is heading that direction. That's the person whose labs are drifting, whose energy is gone, whose weight has been climbing for a decade.
Summit Health is built for that person. Direct-pay, so a first visit runs up to a full hour instead of twelve minutes. Measurement first, with body composition scans and lab work rather than guesswork. Treatment when it is clinically appropriate, monitored monthly. And a provider who is reachable between visits by phone or email.
The goal is not just a number on a chart. It is helping patients feel and function well for as long as possible, supporting energy, strength, body composition, and hormone health with treatments that have evidence behind them and a clinician watching the results.
What Scott treats
Every program at Summit Health is provider-led. Scott evaluates, prescribes, and monitors each one.
Medical weight loss
Semaglutide, tirzepatide, and oral options with InBody 270 scans and monthly monitoring.
Testosterone replacement
Lab-confirmed low testosterone, treated and monitored with regular follow-up labs.
Women's hormone therapy
Bioidentical hormone replacement for perimenopause, menopause, and beyond.
Peptide therapy
Growth hormone peptides for recovery, sleep, and body composition.
Sexual health & hair restoration
The conversations most people put off, handled discreetly.
IV hydration
Six drips from $125 to $200, administered in clinic in 30 to 60 minutes.
What patients say
Summit Health holds a 5.0 rating across 54 Google reviews. The words that come up most often are thorough, responsive, and genuinely invested, which is what tends to happen when the person who wrote your plan is also the person answering your text.
Outside the clinic
Scott is married and has four boys, which accounts for most of the schedule. What's left goes to fishing, classic cars, travel, sports, reading, and a well-documented Star Wars habit. And yes, go Cards.
Start with a free phone consult
Talk to Scott directly about what's going on and whether Summit Health is the right fit.