About DPC

DPC stands for Direct Primary Care.
For a practice to be considered as Direct Primary Care it must:
       1) Charge a periodic fee
       2) Not bill any third parties on a fee for a service basis, and
       3) Any per visit charge must be less than the monthly equivalent of the periodic fee.

What does a DPC practice mean for you as the patient?
You will be able to create a relationship with your doctor who, in turn, knows you. Access to her becomes as simple as a phone call or an email or text message. Seeing your doctor is just as easy and will usually occur in 1 to 2 days. She will help you to manage your healthcare by listening to your concerns, offering advice tailored to you and your family’s needs, prescribing your medications, running diagnostic testing or arranging for them at lower cost alternatives, and, when necessary, coordinating care with specialists.

This is possible because insurance has been taken out of the process. Insurance is not compatible with comprehensive care where the physician and patient develop a relationship. Physicians are forced, by the need to get paid for their services, to submit an itemized list of each and every medical service they provide. But insurance doesn’t pay for answering a text or a phone call where you need some advice, or a medication refilled. Or they pay little for even asking about how your family is doing or the details of how that diet and exercise plan are progressing.

In a DPC practice, you pay a flat monthly membership fee – without filling out mounds of insurance paperwork. Yes, it is like a subscription, but there are no hidden fees. You are not paying for each little thing that is done. It is comprehensive care in one place for one monthly fee.