Direct Primary Care is very simple. The focus is on the relationship between the physician and the patient without the interference of insurance. Insurance companies have taken control of healthcare decisions and have driven up medical costs. In reality, health insurance should be meant for catastrophic and unplanned medical events-not your day-to-day primary care needs and chronic disease management. In direct primary care, control is given back to the patient-doctor relationship to improve the quality of healthcare.
How Does Direct Primary Care Benefit You?
- Greater accessibility to your doctor (text, email, phone, telemedicine, office visits)
- Extended time allotted in-office visits
- Transparent/predictable monthly cost that can be budgeted into yearly expenses
- Affordable lab pricing (at a fraction of the cost of a hospital-based practice)
- Advocacy for you as a member of the practice
- Choice in the ability to choose your own physician (No more need to call the insurance company to find who is in-network)
What are the biggest benefits from the perspective of the physician?
- More allotted time per office visit allows me to give the care I was trained to give
- A lower patient panel size capped at 700 patients. (The average number of patients for primary care physicians in a healthcare system is 2300)
- Use of technology (texting, email, telemedicine, phone calls, office visits) to enhance efficient and exceptional care
- Autonomy to make decisions for the practice much quicker than waiting on an administrator
- Lower overhead (no insurance billing), which translates to lower cost for the patients
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