Avoiding the Emergency Room Bill

Today's topic: What are the benefits of direct Primary Care last time we defined that direct Primary Care is a membership model of primary care like a gym membership. That membership buys you unlimited visits with your primary care physician with zero copay at time of service since this model is membership based these providers now have a known Revenue stream. The number of patients times the monthly membership fee. This means that they don't Bill insurance anymore, which cuts out a ton of administrative waste it also affords them to cut the number of patients that they see from a minimum of 2400 in a traditional model to a maximum of 600 patients in this model. This is where the magic happens because this drastic cut in the number of patients allows the premier direct Primary Care Providers to offer the following two hour initial appointments one hour follow up appointments same or next day availability unlimited number of visits in 24/7access to your physician because a direct primary care provider has all this extra time now, they can handle 80% of your health care needs, which is really what they were trained todo. This additional time reduces the need for specialist visits for Unnecessary emergency room visits virtually eliminates Urgent Care visits and provides navigation to the highest quality lowest cost providers. When you need to go outside the four walls of your primary care physician while this is all great for the patient the employers saves money in these scenarios and has more productive employees. It's how every patient should enter to Healthcare System.