Bright Stars Pediatrics

What Bright Stars Pediatrics does

Bright Stars Pediatrics, PA is a single-location pediatric medical practice operating from 1230 Florida Drive in Arlington, Texas. Founded in 2006 and operating as a professional corporation, the practice serves as a medical home for children from birth through 18 years of age, delivering preventive care (well-child visits, immunizations), urgent care with same-day sick appointments, limited laboratory assessments, and limited behavioral and learning assessments. The firm employs between 1 and 10 people and operates on standard weekday office hours, closed on ten major holidays annually.

The practice does not develop proprietary technology. Its digital infrastructure is entirely supplied through its affiliation with Privia Health, under which Bright Stars is a member of Privia Medical Group. Privia provides the myPrivia patient portal and mobile application (available on iOS and Android) for scheduling, messaging providers, medication management, and records access, plus the 24/7 on-demand Privia Virtual Clinic for telehealth visits. The practice also relies on Privia's provider-search and billing platform for patient acquisition and revenue cycle operations. No APIs, SDKs, or proprietary integrations are disclosed beyond an embedded Google Maps direction link.

Bright Stars generates revenue through standard fee-for-service pediatric care billed to insurance and/or patients. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; specific fees are referenced via an 'Insurance & Fees' page and patients are directed to contact the office directly. The customer base is exclusively retail/consumer — families seeking pediatric services in the Arlington, TX market — with no enterprise or institutional clients. The practice holds HIPAA compliance, Texas Medical Board compliance, and a Texas-specific AI clinical support disclosure. As of October 2025, a named provider, Dr. Karen Pilgrim-King, is retiring from the practice, representing a material leadership transition for a sub-10-person clinical team.

Name

Bright Stars Pediatrics

Legal name

Bright Stars Pediatrics, PA

Website

https://brightstarspediatrics.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Bright Stars Pediatrics is a single-location pediatric practice in Arlington, Texas, serving children from birth to 18 with preventive care, urgent care, immunizations, and behavioral and laboratory assessments. It operates within the Privia Health network for its digital platform and telehealth delivery.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Pediatric Primary Care

NAICS

Child Care Services (62441)

SIC

Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011)

akta.pro primary industry

Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine Practices (HLAFAJAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Pediatric Urgent Care & After-Hours Clinics (HLAFAJAI)

Keywords

• Pediatric healthcare services
• Preventive child care
• Childhood immunizations
• Pediatric urgent care
• Behavioral learning assessments

Headquarters

HQ city

Arlington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Services Revenue: The practice generates revenue through patient care services including preventive care, urgent care visits, immunizations, laboratory assessments, and behavior/learning assessments. Services are billed through insurance and/or patient payments.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Bright Stars Pediatrics is a single-location pediatric medical practice in Arlington, Texas, providing comprehensive "medical home" care for children from birth to 18 years of age. Services include preventive care (well-child visits), childhood immunizations, same-day sick appointments for urgent care, limited laboratory assessments, and limited behavioral and learning assessments. Care is delivered via in-person office visits and through Privia Health's virtual clinic and patient portal.

Product overview

Bright Stars Pediatrics operates as a single-location pediatric medical practice offering a coordinated suite of healthcare services for children from birth to 18 years. The core offering centers on comprehensive pediatric care including preventive services (well-child visits, immunizations), urgent care with same-day sick appointments, and limited behavioral/learning assessments. Laboratory services support diagnostic needs for common illnesses. The practice is integrated into the Privia Health network, providing patients access to additional digital health tools including the myPrivia Patient Portal (web and mobile app for scheduling, messaging, and records access) and the on-demand 24/7 Privia Virtual Clinic for telehealth services. All services are delivered through the Arlington, TX office location.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Comprehensive Pediatric Care

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Privia HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBright Stars Pediatrics is proudly part of Privia Health, a medical group that connects the practice with leading doctors in the community. Privia Health provides the technology platform including myPrivia patient portal and mobile app, coordinates care across 50+ specialties, and offers resources for patient management including scheduling, virtual care, and billing. The partnership enables Bright Stars to deliver high-quality, coordinated, patient-centered pediatric care.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Blue Fish Pediatrics: Multi-location pediatric practice group providing well-child, sick, immunization, and specialty consult services. Directly comparable to Bright Stars as a general pediatrics practice group offering the same core service mix to similar patient demographics.
• Pediatric Associates: One of the largest physician-owned pediatric groups in the U.S., offering well-child, sick, immunization, and behavioral services across multiple locations. Directly comparable to Bright Stars as a multi-site general pediatrics practice serving similar families and services.

Broad incumbents

• Texas Children's Pediatrics: Large primary-care pediatric network affiliated with Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, offering well-child, sick, immunization, and behavioral services. Comparable to Bright Stars in service mix but with much greater scale, brand, and specialty support.
• Children's Health (Children's Medical Center Dallas): Leading pediatric health system in North Texas operating Children's Medical Center Dallas and a large network of pediatric primary care and specialty locations across the DFW region. Overlaps with Bright Stars' pediatric primary-care offering as a much larger, full-spectrum incumbent.
• Privia Health: National physician-enablement platform and parent organization of Bright Stars Pediatrics. Comparable as the broader medical group and technology infrastructure through which Bright Stars delivers care; relevant for benchmarking operating model and network economics.
• Cook Children's Health Care System: Major not-for-profit pediatric system serving the Fort Worth / DFW metroplex with primary care, specialty, and hospital services. Competes with Bright Stars for the same Arlington-area families but at vastly greater scale and with full specialty/hospital depth.

Emerging players

• Blueberry Pediatrics: Direct-to-consumer pediatric telehealth and house-call platform serving families on demand. Comparable to Bright Stars' virtual-care extension (Privia Virtual Clinic) as an emerging alternative channel for pediatric acute and preventive care delivery.
• Summer Health: Pediatric telehealth startup offering on-demand text-based and video access to pediatricians for parents. Relevant as an emerging D2C competitor to the virtual-care layer Bright Stars accesses through Privia Virtual Clinic.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bright-stars-pediatrics-pa

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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