Direct Primary Care (DPC) is a healthcare model built around you and your doctor without insurance as a middleman.
Traditional Fee-for-Service care often ties physician payment to individual visits and services, which can contribute to shorter visits and less time with each patient. If the service does not occur, your doctor cannot keep his doors open. Ultimately it leads to limited care, unhappy patients, and unhappy doctors.
What you should expect from DPC instead:
Direct access to physicians.
Easy scheduling. An appointment as short or long as you need.
Transparent, Reduced-Cost, and Wholesale Pricing. The labs and imaging don’t actually cost hundreds of dollars. Often times they are less than $10-30. People are often deterred with seeing a subscription price but understand that direct prices = no hidden fees.
No nonsense. Doctors work with you and not around insurance. No more unnecessary visits or forcing patients to abide by “one problem-one visit.”
North Star Medicine embodies the DPC model to provide patients and physicians with comprehensive, impactful, and convenient care.
Consider a meet and greet if you have experienced the following:
Waiting more than 30 minutes in a waiting room for your doctor to “try to fit you in” only to be told in less than 5 minutes that “you will be fine."
Being told you needed to come into the office despite the same complaint that you and your doctor already knew how to resolve.
Paying your bill only to be surprised at an additional bill later.
“One visit, one problem,” runaround care, endless referrals
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