The Care Provider Problem
Navigating the modern healthcare system often feels like being on an assembly line. We are all too familiar with the standard routine at the care provider: weeks of waiting for an appointment, hours spent in a waiting room, and a fleeting fifteen-minute encounter with a physician who spends more time typing than listening. It is especially frustrating when the care provider could have easily accomplished the needed task with a phone call rather than a billed encounter. Often it is with a “care extender” who has less familiarity with the patient than their care provider. Being proactive about one’s health becomes a stressor rather than a way to improve health and wellbeing. Enter the Direct Patient Care (DPC) model, a rapidly growing alternative that is restoring the heart of medicine by removing the insurance middleman.
The Direct Patient Care Solution
The most immediate advantage of DPC is the gift of time. DPC Physicians operate outside of the traditional insurance-based fee-for-service care provider model and are not bound by volume-driven quotas. Instead of juggling 30 patients a day, a DPC physician might see six. This allows for extended appointments—often 30 to 60 minutes—where patients are truly heard. The care provider has the time to focus and truly listen and address the patient’s concerns and goals.
The care provider’s role is pivotal. Rather than goals for billing and coding for insurance, the DPC provider is able to work with the patient to find a plan, not dictate treatments that won’t address the patient’s needs. It can be daunting to step outside of the typical insurance-based healthcare system, but the rewards have the potential to be life changing! Why not find a doctor who is focused on the patient, not the system. It’s time to invest in a patient care provider relationship that will improve health and wellbeing. Contact Heron Creek Direct Patient Care today and see what you’ve been missing.
