DIRECT PRIMARY CARE
(Currently this service is full)
What Would Your Ideal Patient Experience Be?
- Having a provider who knows your history and advocates for you
- Plenty of time to explain your concerns and goals & feeling you were heard
- Detailed visits, digging into the underlying factors that are personalized to you
- Providers who are knowledgeable, experienced, & honest
- When you have an issue, you can be seen the same or next business day
- When you call with a question, you hear back from the provider within 24 hours
- Offering treatments other than just another prescription
- No copays, no surprise bills after
- Solid treatment plans that focus on lifestyle to address weight, fatigue, hormone imbalance, exercise
- Functional medicine labs via our Functional Medicine Membership as well as standard lab testing
- Leaving visits with a solid personalized care plan written out and good follow-up
What If We All Had Access to Primary Care Like This for an Affordable Rate?
There are 2 models to choose from – Direct Primary Care Membership and Functional Medicine Membership. The correct model for you depends on your goals – see below for details. If you are unsure about membership, we also offer a single Functional Medicine Consultation appointment detailed below.
Both Models Include:
Your in-office visits, tele-medicine visits, in-office rapid resulted labs (strep, flu, urinalysis, urine pregnancy test, finger blood glucose), procedures we can offer in clinic, text messaging, phone consultations, lab reviews, and emails
Wholesale access (35% off retail value) for recommended professional grade vitamins & supplements – we do not take any profit from this and pass the entire clinician discount to you
*Costs of lab tests are separate and are billed directly from the lab testing facility. Patients may apply their insurance for this.
We Do Not Provide:
We do not provide urgent or emergency care services. Any matter that needs attention within a 24-hour period should be seen in the Emergency Room or an urgent care facility. If you are experiencing an emergency, call 911 immediately.
Direct Primary Care Membership: (CURRENTLY NOT ACCEPTING PATIENTS)
$98/month
One Time Enrollment Fee: $120
Initial visit:
90 minutes face to face + 60-120 minutes of pre and post visit case review and personalized plan building
Follow up visits:
30-45 minutes face to face + 60 minutes pre and post visit case review and personalized plan building
Holistic approaches with a focus on supporting the body’s healing will be preferred, while prescription medications are used not as default, but when necessary. Functional work-ups are not included. We recommend the functional model instead for anyone looking to find underlying causes and working through a condition.
The savings we provide our patients with wholesale access (35% off) for professional grade vitamins & supplements as well as labs can easily amount to the cost of the DPC membership – giving you full time primary care for free. These discounts are a courtesy to our patients.
Functional Medicine Membership:
(CURRENTLY NOT ACCEPTING PATIENTS – PLEASE SEE FUNCTIONAL PACKAGE OPTION FOR OPENINGS)
$150/month
$395 enrollment fee
Initial visit:
90 minutes face to face + 120-240 minutes of pre and post visit case review and plan building as needed
Follow up visits:
30-45 minutes face to face + 60-120 minutes pre and post visit case review and plan building
In addition to everything offered in the Direct Primary Care Membership, functional approaches to treatment are included with a detailed explanation of functional test results and individualized treatment protocols. We do not perform all functional tests.
We recommend the functional model for anyone looking to find underlying causes and work through a condition through a focus on gut healing, SIBO treatments, and hormonal imbalances. Our functional tests include NMR testing, Lactulose SIBO Breath Test, GI Map (comprehensive stool test), DUTCH (complete hormonal testing), and Organic Acid testing. We have seen a lot of success with patients that invest their efforts to correct underlying imbalances with their digestive health, nutrition, lifestyle, and hormones. Costs of lab tests are separate and are billed directly from the lab testing facility. Patients may apply their insurance for labs.
**Patients in the Functional Membership Model that have completed functional workups and are looking for maintenance care without ongoing functional assessments will be switched to the lower cost Direct Primary Care Membership.
**Patients in the Direct Primary Care Membership who would like to switch to the Functional Membership Model will be charged the difference in enrollment fees: $275
LABS
Any rapid tests we perform in house are included with the visit.
Any labs that we send out for results will have a separate charge from the lab (we can apply your insurance for these).
We give access to all patients to extremely discounted lab prices. These prices are well below insurance pricing. Patients may use their own insurance for labs or our pricing list.
Example of Wholesale Lab Prices We Give You Access To:
(Significant Savings if You Are Paying Labs Through a Deductible)
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Complete Metabolic Panel: Lab Charge:$108; Insurance Adjusted Price: $77.14
OUR PRICE: $3.80 -
Thyroid panel (TSH, FT4, FT3, Reverse T3): Lab Charge:$620; Insurance Adjusted Price: $100.40
OUR PRICE: $26 -
Hemoglobin A1c: Lab Charge: $66; Insurance Adjusted Price: $10.77
OUR PRICE: $3.75
INSURANCES
We do not accept insurance. For more information read the FAQ section on insurances here.
ARE YOU POSSIBLY PAYING MORE FOR CARE THAN CASH PAYING PATIENTS BECAUSE YOU HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE?
Actually, maybe yes, according to health costs transparency companies. And you’re paying for a 10 minute rushed visit with a provider you never met before.
“Insured people have long thought their insurance policies grant them access to the negotiated or contract rate for an in-network provider, rather than the sticker price. At an out-of-network provider, a patient might need to pay the sticker price. But increasingly, we’re hearing that insured people are being asked to pay the sticker price — if they haven’t met their deductibles yet — for in-network providers.” (Jeanne Pinder 2019)
To understand more about insurance policies’ costs, please see the following information.
Why Can We Do This Without the Concierge Price Tag?
We work for the patient, not for insurance, billing codes, or performance assessments pressuring doctors to put patients on prescription drugs. This allows us to focus our additional hours on knowing our patients well and assessing their medical conditions with much more diligence.
We get to know ALL of our patients because we cap the total number of patients much lower than the standard medical practices…keeping care personal and real.
And It's Working with Better Results.
Superior healthcare at a lower price
Reversing medical conditions years before the diagnosis is set – addressing health now
DPC practices claim approximately 20% savings in average cost of care through better prevention
This model is growing with successful practices full of happy satisfied patients
TEDx Talk about DPC with Dr. Paul Thomas (8 min):
A Few Articles:
Medicine Is About to Get Personal,
David Von Drehle, TIME Magazine
With Direct Primary Care, Health Care Doesn’t Have To Be Expensive,
Katherine Estrepo, Forbes