Healthcare Solutions for Employers

Direct Primary Care offers many health benefits, but employers have a unique opportunity to realize substantial financial savings as well. Particularly when paired with a self-insured or level-insured solution, we have found consistent and substantial savings for employers of all sizes even as employee satisfaction with benefits consistently and dramatically improves.

Because each solution is unique, we welcome the chance to work with each employer to help build a total healthcare and insurance package. Packages start at $40 per employee per month and can grow into an integrated part of a more extensive insurance policy, including unlimited visits at no cost to the covered persons.

How Direct Primary Care Works

Direct primary care refocuses on patient-provider relationships as a source of health and wellness rather than the inefficiencies that grow out of the current system of checkboxes and programs. Employers pay a flat monthly rate that allows the provider to be available to patients and serve employers' specific needs.

This approach has correlated with decreased patient waiting times (and consequently improved attendance at work) and usually results in more active engagement in preventive medicine. Taken together, these have a range of healthcare benefits and cost-saving implications. Interpersonally, the benefits are even more pronounced. The limited patient panel size per provider and the elimination of the hassles of insurance documentation/billing allow for 30-minute appointments with a provider with wait times that are typically less than a minute.

In an article on Direct Primary Care in Time magazine, cost savings were estimated to be between 15% and 30%, with over 95% of patients expressing satisfaction with their experience (December 22, 2014.) In another analysis of Direct Primary Care, the Heritage Foundation reports a savings of over $2,500 per patient per year over traditional care with dramatically better outcomes, including substantial decreases in admissions to hospitals, surgeries, and use of specialists (August 6, 2014).

To learn more, contact us at info@hickorydpc.com or call our non-medial office line at 937.482.3915.