Direct Primary Care (DPC) is a health care model that restores a personal relationship with your physician. The goal is to simplify the finances in order to provide more time with your physician, more personal care, and to place the incentive on keeping you healthy rather than on paperwork or getting paid. This is accomplished by removing insurance companies from the relationship between the patient and primary care physician.
The idea is to use health insurance only for unexpected and expensive problems. This is similar to how people commonly use home or car insurance. Though you would not use home insurance for a leak under your sink, you would if a tree fell on your home unexpectedly. A DPC practice can take care of 80-90% of your health care needs for a fraction of the cost that an insurance-based medical practice could. Insurance is then available for the unexpected catastrophic events.
In short, Direct Primary Care removes the insurance company from the middle of the relationship between you and your doctor. With your doctor focusing on you, you get better care. Patients utilizing a Direct Primary Care practice in combination with a high deductible insurance plan stand to get higher quality personalized health care while saving money.
My Direct Primary Care Program will provide you with comprehensive primary and preventive care in my office as well as telephonic and e-mail access for one low monthly fee. Please be aware that this is not health insurance. The only services provided for the monthly fee are services I provide as your primary care provider in my office. For your monthly fee, you can visit my office as frequently as you need. If there is a matter that can be handled on the phone or by e-mail, we can do that in lieu of an office visit.