What is Direct Primary Care?
Direct primary care is a model of primary healthcare that bypasses health insurance to provide more comprehensive care at a lower overall cost.
It is a simpler model that enables patients and their doctors to work directly together toward personalized goals, without insurance dictating the medical care.
DPC patients have direct electronic access to their doctor. They can text or call for any urgent issues, as if they had a doctor in their family.
Who is direct primary care membership best for?
1) People who have busy lives & can never get in to see their doctor when they need to or when it is convenient.
*In DPC, same-day or next-day appointments are usually available.​
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*Issues that can be safely addressed via video call, phone call, or text message will be addressed, saving you a significant amount of time and inconvenience.
2) People who want price transparency, not surprise bills.
*With DPC membership, your monthly membership fee includes all appointments and communication between doctors and patients.​
*Most DPCs also offer discounted labs and imaging to their patients with transparent pricing.
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*DPCs can also dispense medications directly to patients at wholesale medication prices, so you don’t get surprise bills at the pharmacy either.
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​3) People who have great insurance but cannot find a primary care doctor who is accepting new patients.
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*The fee-for-service insurance model of primary care is unfortunately not sustainable for most physicians. Also, healthcare corporations are actively replacing medical doctors with non-physician practitioners.
*As a DPC patient, you can finally have a quality doctor-patient relationship with a physician devoted to helping you achieve health.
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4) People who hate waiting 30+ minutes in a waiting room, then 10+ minutes in an exam room, just to see their doctor for a few rushed minutes.
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*Many DPC clinics don’t even need a waiting room! Patients are never double or triple-booked, as they are in insurance-based clinics.
*DPC appointments are not rushed. The goal is for doctor and patient to work together to achieve health, not drive patient volume.
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5) People with a high deductible insurance plan, paying hundreds of $$$ per primary care or specialist appointment before their insurance starts picking up the tab.
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*DPC membership includes as many appointments and virtual communications with your primary care doctor as needed.
*Most DPC patients don’t need to see specialists at all or as often because their primary care doctor has more time to help them.
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6) People who want to be cared for by a clinician with certain credentials (MD/DO or PA, or NP).
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*When you choose to become a patient of a DPC clinic, YOU get to choose who you entrust your healthcare needs to, not a corporation blindly scheduling you with whatever “provider” has an opening.
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