"A-List Direct Primary Care was created to provide patients with superb quality health care and direct communication with your personal physician. Choosing to become an A-Lister will introduce you to a new and innovative model of primary care that brings the focus back to a strong and direct doctor-patient relationship, highlighting personal communication and care, and incorporates modern technology to improve access and management of your health needs.
As a family medicine physician I personally expected this to be the norm of how a PCP operates. Unfortunately, it was made clear that personal attention, quick and direct access, transparent services and costs, and a patient focused plan for management and treatment were not the priorities as an ever restricting insurance market continues to emerge. The multiple layers of separation between the doctor and patient have made it difficult for physicians to focus on the patient. Instead, the focus has been placed on documenting charts to meet insurance and non-patient centered regulations. Sadly, this leads to patients being treated as a number and their health and life viewed as nothing more then data points that are used to complete a protocol and fulfill a quota. As I became better and better at documenting those data points and completing quotas, I soon realized that I was practicing insurance instead of practicing medicine.
That is when I decided to take the road less traveled and start a direct primary care practice. When utilizing flat-rate cash retainer fees for my services, my patients no longer have to be concerned about which insurance plans I accept and have the freedom to choose any insurance or health sharing plan they prefer. They experience undivided attention for their concerns, instead of witnessing the provider's undivided attention to a computer. They are able to participate in technology that provides quick and direct access between the doctor and patient. And since the DPC model of medicine is patient focused, each patient receives health management and treatment plans that are patient specific, not protocol driven."
