What is Direct Primary Care or DPC? The HR professionals know that the Employee Benefits landscape if constantly changing, and staying up with current trends can be a challenge. So what is DPC and how can it help your employees as well as your bottom line? Simply stated, DPC is a healthcare model that places an emphasis on a direct patient to physician relationship...like it used to be. For a flat monthly fee, the patient has access to comprehensive primary care, with often times same-day or next-day appointments. With an enhanced doctor-patient relationship, and improved healthcare outcomes, your employees will thank you, and your CFO will too. Feel free to message me if interested in learning more. #HR #DirectPrimaryCare #employeebenefits
Simply stated DPC=Common Sense. FFS primary care= Utter NONSENSE!! I can speak to this from my 15 years in the current FFS primary care model. FFS primary care is complex, confusing, inefficient for both patients and providers, and ultimately more expensive than it needs to be. DPC is the opposite…..straightforward and affordable care with no middlemen. Culturally we are used to reaching for that insurance card and thinking that equals healthcare. But if you go back to the middle of last century health insurance was limited to almost non-existent in primary care. This is when primary care functioned optimally. We just need a commonsense paradigm shift back to what has already worked. Simple as that!
Great post Dave Weakland! As an Emergency Med. PA, I can't say enough about the incredible value that real access brings to patients, employer, clinicians... Thanks for the reminder.
Direct primary care is the future of primary care. Let’s remove hidden fees, improves access, and make health and wellness a priority!