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Annual Bloodwork: Why it’s Important for Prevention in Healthcare

Wellness and prevention are two of the most important components of healthcare. When it comes to prevention, one of the best things you can do for your health is to get annual bloodwork done. With a simple lab draw, your primary care provider can detect a wide variety of health problems, including diabetes, anemia, heart disease, kidney disease, cancer, and more. That’s why it’s so important to get annual bloodwork done; it’s a simple way to catch potential problems early and get ahead of them. There’s no excuse not to get tested—especially when Strada Healthcare offers membership plans that include annual bloodwork at such an affordable price. Our memberships include the following annual labs:

  • High Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein
  • Complete Blood Count
  • Complete Metabolic Panel
  • Hemoglobin A1c
  • Lipid Panel
  • Prostate Specific Antigen
  • Thyroid Stimulating Hormone
  • Vitamin D

Getting annual bloodwork done is a smart investment in your health—and your wallet. Don’t wait until you’re sick to get tested; by then it may be too late. Get ahead of the game by getting annual bloodwork by becoming a member of Strada Healthcare. When you become a member of Strada Healthcare, you’re joining a community of people who are committed to their health and wellbeing. We offer our members comprehensive coverage and peace of mind so they can focus on living their best lives. Contact us today to learn more about our membership plans and how we can help you take charge of your health.

The Benefits of a Membership Medicine Model for Small Businesses

The membership medicine model – also known as Direct Primary Care – is a type of subscription-based healthcare service that is becoming increasingly popular among small businesses. There are many benefits to using this type of model, including improved employee health, increased productivity, and lower healthcare costs. Let’s take a closer look at each of these benefits.

Improved Employee Health:
One of the biggest benefits of a membership medicine model is that it can lead to improved employee health. This is because employees will have access to preventive care services, which can help them catch health problems early and avoid more serious health issues down the road. In addition, by leveraging the power of data, membership medicine models can provide employees with personalized care plans that are tailored to their individual health needs. This type of individualized care can help employees stay healthy and improve their overall well-being.

Increased Productivity:
Another benefit of a membership medicine model is that it can lead to increased productivity. This is because healthier employees are generally more productive employees. When employees have access to quality healthcare, they are less likely to miss work due to illness or injury. In addition, they are also more likely to be able to focus on their work when they are feeling healthy and well. As a result, businesses that use a membership medicine model can see a boost in productivity from their employees.

Another benefit of using a membership medicine model is that it can help businesses save money on healthcare costs. This is because subscription-based healthcare models are affordable and typically offer discounts for things like labs, imaging, and some specialist visits, which can help businesses reduce their overall healthcare spending. In addition, membership medicine models often include preventative care services, which can help businesses avoid the high costs associated with treating more serious health conditions down the road.

There are many benefits to using a membership medicine model for small businesses. These benefits include improved employee health, increased productivity, and lower healthcare costs. If you’re looking for ways to improve your small business’s bottom line, then a membership medicine model may be right for you!

Busy Moms Can Benefit from a Personalized Healthcare Experience

Many people have experience using telemedicine, especially with the advent of COVID-19. But most telemedicine experiences are not personalized: patients are talking to a doctor who doesn’t know them. Direct Primary Care changes this. Patients in Direct Primary Care can speak to their doctor whenever they need to, even if its after hours or on weekends.

Mothers are some of the busiest people on the planet. They are constantly juggling work, family, and social obligations. So when they do get sick, the last thing they want to do is sit in a waiting room for hours only to see a doctor for five minutes. That’s where Direct Primary Care comes in. DPC doctors are available 24/7, so busy moms can get the care they need when they need it, without having to take time off from work or miss their child’s soccer game.

What is Direct Primary Care?
Direct Primary Care (DPC) is a type of healthcare that allows patients to have direct access to their primary care physician, usually through a monthly membership fee. This relationship gives patients more time with their physician, more personalized care, and more convenience overall. And since DPC doctors are not beholden to insurance companies, they can spend more time focusing on their patients’ individual needs rather than meeting insurance guidelines.

DPC doctors are often able to offer same-day or next-day appointments, extended office hours, and 24/7 availability via phone or email. They also tend to have smaller patient panels which allows them to get to know their patients on a more personal level. This deepens the relationship between patient and physician and leads to better health outcomes overall. And because DPC doctors are not incentivized to order unnecessary tests or procedures, patients can be confident that they’re only getting the care they need and nothing more.

The bottom line is that Direct Primary Care is a great option for mothers who want more personalized care from their primary care physician. DPC doctors are available 24/7 and have extended office hours which makes it easy for mothers to get the care they need without having to sacrifice their work or family obligations. Additionally, DPC doctors have smaller patient panels which allows them to get to know their patients on a more personal level and provide better overall care. If you’re looking for a more personalized telehealth experience, Direct Primary Care is definitely worth considering.

If you’re looking for a more personalized healthcare experience, Direct Primary Care is worth considering. DPC doctors are available 24/7 and have extended office hours which makes it easy for mothers to get the care they need without having to sacrifice their work or family obligations. Additionally, DPC doctors have smaller patient panels which allows them to get to know their patients on a more personal level and provide better overall care. You can learn more about Strada’s DPC memberships and sign up today – Click Here!

Curing Disease with Nutrition, featuring Don Scarborough, PA-C

This episode of Beyond the Script features Don Scarborough PA-C. With degrees in exercise science and a Masters in Nutrition, Don believes that one of the most important things patients can do to improve their health is improve their diet.

Dr. Joel Bessmer asks Don some great questions in this interview about how his passion developed for nutrition, and how he’s changing his patients lives by promoting lifestyle changes over prescriptions.

Healthcare in Rural Nebraska, featuring Dr. John Jacobsen – Episode 007

In this episode of Beyond the Script, Ryne Bessmer interviews Dr. John Jacobsen, founder of Click Family Healthcare. Dr. Jacobsen has clinics in Kearney and Broken Bow, Nebraska, and has a unique perspective on what it takes to provide high-quality healthcare in rural Nebraska.

You can also learn more about Click Family Healthcare by visiting Strada Healthcare’s website featuring Dr. Jacobsen and Dr. Petersen.

Direct Primary Care Meets Criteria for Accessible Mental Health Treatment

drawing of minds

 

Most mental health treatment isn’t accessible, and here’s why.

Mental Health America’s (MHA) newest key findings report that in 2021, “over half of adults with a mental illness do not receive treatment, totaling over 27 million US adults who go untreated.” In addition, “Over 60% of youth with depression do not receive any mental health access.”

Some of the biggest reasons for this include a lack of knowledge, like what kind of help to seek for their problems, a lack of confidence in treatments, fears of stigma, and lack of funds to spend on mental health treatment. (Source: Mental State of the World Report 2020, Sapien Labs)

These reasons to not seek mental health treatment are all valid and make sense. It’s important to come up with resources that work around these obstacles so more Americans can access and benefit from mental health treatment.

Criteria for more accessible mental health.

Key ways to increase accessibility for treatments of mental health include:

  1. Make it no-risk,
  2. discrete,
  3. and affordable

Direct Primary Care actually meets these criteria.

Never heard of Direct Primary Care (DPC)?

DPC practices don’t accept insurance. This helps foster stronger, more meaningful relationships between patients and providers. In this relationship, they can make autonomous choices about health care and spend more time together. Under the Direct Primary Care practice payment model, patients typically enjoy unlimited access to their provider, both digitally and in-person, for a flat fee paid directly to their provider.

With Strada Healthcare’s Direct Primary Care, patients are guaranteed unlimited access to their Strada Healthcare provider for a flat membership fee paid monthly. That fee covers all primary care services, too. This includes basic mental health therapy and more.

Now we’re getting somewhere.

 

 

At Strada Healthcare, we believe that Direct Primary Care is a viable solution to getting mental health treatment.

It doesn’t work the same with traditional primary care. In that model, health insurance companies rule and as a result, providers do not get time to actually cover everything that primary care should cover. That’s why people are re-directed to specialists more times than not when they have an issue.

Direct Primary Care is different, because – as you now know – health insurance plans are irrelevant in the model and so are the regulations that go with it. Provider and patients get back time – which we know is the most important resources in healthcare.

Back to the criteria.

Here’s why Strada Healthcare’s Direct Primary Care meets the criteria for more accessible mental health treatment.

  1. Make it no-risk

With Strada Healthcare, patients can quit their membership any time without fees or penalties. There are no year-long contracts our patients must abide by.

And, Strada Healthcare patients can try mental health treatment alongside all their primary care services – for the same price. That’s something you need anyway, so why not try to improve your mental health with all your other care, too? It makes sense, especially since it doesn’t increase your costs!

By the way, having one, central provider for as much of your care as possible also lends itself to more care coordination (if necessary) and lowers the likelihood for miscommunications across multiple providers.

  1. Make it discrete

While stigmas against mental health treatment should be dead and gone in 2022, they’re not. Even worse, those who live with a mental illness often feel like it’s something they should be able to control. They might even have their own stigmas that they project onto others, whether or not they actually exist. This can make mental health problems even worse.

Because Strada Healthcare providers have more time to truly care for their patients, they can treat all that belongs under the umbrella of primary care. An office visit to your primary care provider is just that – no awkward waiting areas or specialty trips that make your palms sweaty.

Even more, Strada Healthcare patients can skip the trip altogether and contact their provider through our HIPPA-compliant digital care platform called Spruce App (for texting or video calls). Through this App, patients can share their experiences and Strada Healthcare providers can give meaningful and personalized treatment, including medication management and refills.

  1. Make it affordable

An adult membership to Strada Healthcare is a monthly fee of $99, and add-on family members are discounted. Like we’ve established, you get a lot of care and a lot of access with that fee. The traditional mental health talk therapy session is at least $99, but usually much, much more. You also get unlimited care and personalized treatment and never have to worry about costs rising when you need help.

Strada patients can also access other resources if they need more help. Strada patients have access to talk therapy from a licensed counselor for negotiated, deeply discounted cash prices. Check out our cash price mental health providers PEP Perspectives and Verve Collaborative Health.

Other Resources

To help you make the connection between primary care providers and mental health treatment, we’ve attached some key education videos from Strada Healthcare affiliate provider April Thomas, MSN, APRN.

If you watch and like what April has to say, you’re not alone – others do too! Better yet, she’s welcoming new patients through Strada Healthcare. Learn more about April here. You can enroll as a patient of April Thomas here.

How Self-funded Heimes Corporation Used Direct Primary Care to Save $12,300 on Employee Surgery Procedure

“Utilizing Strada Healthcare’s negotiated and reduced cash prices not only saves us money on our medical plan but more importantly saves our employees money on the health plan.”

How Heimes saved on an employee surgery.

This case study covers best practices in setting up and executing a self funded health plan with a direct primary care plan integration. Partnering with Strada Healthcare helps Heimes Corporation save money on primary care. In many cases, Strada Healthcare’s negotiating power can save employers money on speciality care and catastrophic events, too. In particular, Heimes was able to save drastically on an employee surgery.

Background

Heimes Corporation employees perform tasks like excavating, recycling, plumbing, boring, wrecking, and more. Without tools for easy access to healthcare prevention and management, compounded with the expensive cost of healthcare, some employees tend to let problems go unresolved. This potentially increases the cost of care for both Heimes and their employees. One “con” of self-funded insurance is that for unpredictable, expensive healthcare costs like surgeries, Heimes pays the full cost.

Heimes Corporation Need: Reduce costs on health claims – especially expensive, unexpected, catastrophic claims – for both Heimes and employees. In particular, reduce the cash-pay cost of an upcoming shoulder surgery for an employee.

 

Heimes Corporation takes care of their people. As such, they came to Strada Healthcare wanting to add an employee health benefit to give employees tools to help prevent conditions and manage their care while also reducing costs – both in the present and in the future. To accomplish this, Strada Healthcare recommended implementing Direct Primary Care as employee benefit.

Heimes Corporation Solution: Offer an additional employee benefit of Direct Primary Care through Strada Healthcare and integrate it into their self-funded healthcare plan.

 

 

A little on Direct Primary Care (DPC)

Strada Healthcare offers direct primary care that integrates into both fully insured and self-funded insured healthcare plans. In direct primary care, patients contract directly with their provider for a low, monthly fee. That fee does not contribute to a deductible. In fact, proponents of direct primary care believe that primary care should be free from insurance entirely. The patient pays no copays. Rather, the contracted fee covers most of their care. Patients also get unlimited access to their provider, both digitally and in-person, and longer visit times, allowing for a more focused direct patient care experience.

It is recommended and encouraged that those who contract through DPC also have insurance – most commonly a high deductible plan that can cover catastrophic events, like surgeries.

Integrating DPC into self-funded insurance plans can even help greatly reduce the cost of specialty care, like imaging and surgery.

 

Paying cash versus going through insurance for employee surgeries, labs and imaging.

Many people and companies don’t know that they can opt out of insurance for healthcare and pay directly. This is often what Strada Healthcare clients like Heimes choose to do. By paying cash directly, they bypass the politics of expensive insurance rates, and get down to the negotiated, and sometimes at-cost, prices.

“One reason our employees love Strada is the financial savings. There have been several situations where an employee has had an issue, contacted their Strada provider and utilized the cash price to diagnose their issue quicker and at a better price. Getting diagnosed with a quick X-Ray or MRI and not having to go through insurance, and rather paying cash, has saved our employees up to hundreds of dollars.” – Adam Heimes

And because of their partnership with Strada, Heimes gets access to set negotiated cash prices for things like imaging, labs, physical therapy and more – and they get access to a team who has negotiating power for expensive, one-off costs like surgery.

 

How Strada negotiated on behalf of Heimes for an employee surgery

When an employee recently needed to have shoulder surgery performed, Adam Heimes reached out to Strada’s team. He wanted to know if it made more sense to go through insurance administrators and pay their rates for the surgery, or to pay the hospital and surgeons directly with cash.

The Strada team used their negotiating power to get quotes directly from the orthopedic hospital. A new agreement was drawn, bundling the hospital, physician and anesthesia fees.

 

Result: Instead of paying insurance’s rate of $26,000 for the procedure, Heimes paid Strada’s negotiated cash price of $13,700 for the same exact procedure.

 

(Strada gets nothing out of this other than bragging rights!)

As stated above, Heimes takes care of their people. Because their employee was willing to have their procedure bundled and price lowered, Heimes met their deductible for them, paying for the procedure in full.

As a partner of Strada, you can get this preferred treatment, too. Inquire today.

Insurance Brokers Should Be Selling DPC to Self-Funded Groups

Insurance brokers know, and so do their clients: Healthcare costs continue to rise every year.

It would be wrong to say that insurance brokers have it easy trying to sell health insurance in the current market. In 2021, the Insurance Information Institute estimates that healthcare spend in the US is $4.41 trillion. Out of that, it’s estimated by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation that a third of it is wasted on unnecessary healthcare services. And given that our current healthcare system doesn’t encourage prevention and wellness, it’s not surprising that only 6% of healthcare costs go to primary care. A whopping 38% of healthcare costs go to hospital care (according to the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative and the Robert Graham Center).

Self-funded companies got fed up with spending too much on premiums. They pulled the plug, and essentially became their own insurance company, only paying for what they need. What if you could come in and make their healthcare spend even less?

Companies with self-funded plans want fewer claims and more employees on high-deductible plans. This is your major opportunity to pitch what most insurance brokers aren’t even aware of – that’s Direct Primary Care (DPC).

Helping Insurance Brokers Understand Direct Primary Care

We’ll start with a tweet.

A tweet from Dutch Rojas: "DPC also known as direct primary care continues to kick butt and take names. I have yet to hear a complaint about DPC. Oh man, my doctor wants to hang out with me for 30 minutes and doesn't have a sign on their door that says, 'Our visit is for 1 medical condition only.' I love it."

Long, focused visits with your provider is one benefit of Direct Primary Care. That, in and of itself, trickles down and creates many more health benefits for patients.

How it works: Direct Primary Care is a primary care membership. The modest monthly membership fee is paid directly to Primary Care Providers (PCP) for unlimited access to them. It’s paying for access versus paying per service. For primary care through DPC, individuals don’t ever pay co-pays and aren’t working to meet a deductible.

In this healthcare model, prevention and wellness take priority. Helping foster the patient-provider relationship achieves this. With more and easier access to their provider, patients develop a long-term relationship that focuses on genetics, medical history, lifestyle, and more. Providers have more time to get to know the patient, working on the source of medical issues versus traditional care, where patients get a ten-minute appointment and prescription write-up for symptoms.

This type of care also maintains health and works toward prevention, making serious, expensive health complications in the future less likely. Round-the-clock access to care also means it’s less likely employees will make trips to urgent care or the ER – the most expensive care available.

Direct Primary Care takes insurance out of primary care, yet it’s not a health insurance replacement. It’s a cost-effective integration, most typically with high-deductible health plans (HDHP).

Because DPC is a direct contract with the provider versus insurance, it eliminates claims on primary care and creates the opportunity for a predictable, transparent, upfront healthcare spend on primary care.

Yes, DPC eliminates claims on primary care and reduces urgent care and ER claims.

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Second to claims, self-funded companies want their employees to opt-into the HDHP so their employees pay much of their healthcare costs themselves. A HDHP with Direct Primary Care custom integration makes it more likely that their employees will. This is not only a major benefit to your clients, however. Their employees will have 100% of their primary care covered through their Direct Primary Care membership and will pay less money every month for their HDHP premium. Many times, employees get wholesale pricing on labs, negotiated cash pricing on specialists, and their providers help them access the most affordable prescriptions. In-depth relationships and round-the-clock access, as aforementioned, also means more health and less complications in the future.

How Insurance Brokers can Integrate DPC into a Plan Design

Let’s compare costs with a realistic example.

This chart shows how Preferred Provider Organization insurance policies differ from High Deductible Health Plans paired with Direct Primary Care. For the former, deductibles are lower and premiums are higher. Patients must pay a co-pay for visits and don't get unlimited access to their provider.

This chart shows how HDHP + DPC can work together to cut costs versus traditional Preferred Provider Organization health insurance plans (PPO). You’ll see that in this example, the employer saves $176 outright per month. And again, with DPC, they’ll have fewer claims and more employee health, making even more savings down the line.

How can I prove increased health and reduced claims to clients?

When you partner with Strada Healthcare, the premier physician-owned network of Direct Primary Care providers, you are provided sophisticated data reporting and analytics that prove increased health and costs cut in exact numbers.

The core integrations included are electronic medical reports, DPC membership billing platforms, virtual communication tools, and claims data (if made available). We consolidate this data to make it easier for your client to draw applicable conclusions.

Next, Strada Healthcare offers advanced integrations that can accommodate your needs.

These integrations help your client gain a more comprehensive understanding of their employees’ health. This includes health information exchanges, patient satisfaction surveys, biometrics, wearable devices, and patient engagement platforms.

Lastly, Strada Healthcare offers dashboards and reporting. This is done in creative ways to help your client draw conclusions about operational, clinical, and financial performance. Strada Healthcare can help your client make strategic decisions about their primary care strategy. We do this by sharing data-driven reports and seamlessly integrated solutions with you.

 

For more information, please contact us here.

“My Patient Pledge” from April Thomas MSN, APRN

My Pledge to My Patients

My patient pledge is that I use my vast experiences and knowledge to improve the lives of each patient.

 

The first years of my career as a Nurse Practitioner were spent in a small community health clinic. My patients and I had very little resources. They had many daily battles to fight – food, housing, and safety. Battles that none of us should have to worry about losing. With these issues came lack of time or energy to care for their health, so chronic diseases like heart disease ­­– and even depression and anxiety – were often the result.

 

I strove to connect with my patients and did everything I could to learn about their circumstances and barriers to care. This is essential to learning how to care for people – you need to meet them where they are. In my clinic, we did have one very important resource – quite possibly the most important resource: Time. Time was crucial for me. It was going to be the driving force in establishing trust.

 

I was able to have long visits and get to know my patients, their personal history, family history, lifestyle, and more. As my patients witnessed me learning them, we developed strong bonds. I was able to formulate accurate, responsive and educated care plans that I knew would work with them, their resources and their personality. That’s when I saw follow-through. Most importantly, that’s when I saw improvement. I was using small nutritional changes to reverse chronic conditions and prevent other diseases.

 

This really got me thinking about where my passion lies. The severe impact of the body on mental health is, in my opinion, not widely known or understood. We’re talking about neurological/chemical imbalances, not only thoughts like “I feel bad because I ate cake.” For example, you might not know that your gastrointestinal tract houses tons of bacteria that are responsible for guiding the production of neurotransmitters. That’s why when you eat healthy, your mood is affected positively ­– you’re influencing your chemical balances. Consistently doing so will make it less likely to have a chronic mood disorder.

 

And as you now know, time is so important when you’re auditing someone’s current knowledge, behaviors and history. Healthcare can’t happen in a ten-minute appointment and quick prescription write-up.

 

While prescriptions can work really well for maintaining mental health, it’s supplemental to discovering and treating the underlying causes of the illness. I work a lot with lab testing and nutrition to find those causes and develop relationships with my patients to keep them accountable for their health plans. With small steps, I’ve found that my patients can slowly improve their lifestyles and improve their health.

 

I am grateful for my roots in a community health setting, that experience established my point of view on care. I will always seek to understand and empathize with my patients. I will always be on their side and I will always be their advocate. I don’t see any other viable way to practice medicine. This is my patient pledge.

 

To learn more about Strada affiliate provider April Thomas MSN, APRN, please visit her webpage here.

Employee Wellness Programs Need an Upgrade

Even before the pandemic, employee wellness programs were becoming popular among employers. Now, the popularity and necessity of employee wellness programs has been expedited. And companies know that these programs can benefit their bottom lines. They are not only great recruitment tools, they’re also great retention tools. Healthier, happier employees are more productive and stay longer. Healthier employees also cost less.

But there are several challenging aspects of workplace wellness programs. Just in time for National Employee Health and Fitness Day, let’s go over a few of those challenges and explore some potential solutions.

Assigning Employee Wellness Programs to HR or Management

Many companies, when implementing a workplace wellness program, lean on HR or Management. Your Human Resources department does a lot to support your teams. So does your Management. They recruit, train, resolve, educate, and more. It’s going to be hard to tell them to provide resources and help administer a workplace wellness program.

Another concern is measurement. Especially since they’re not healthcare professionals, how will they develop key metrics and determine ROI? Is this something you’ve considered tracking?

An alternative is to contract with an outside agency to create and execute your plan. That gets costly fast.

Are Employee Wellness Programs Entirely Relevant?

Are you able to make an employee wellness program relevant to the needs of every employee? Definitely not. Hint: That’s only something a provider can do. If your main goal is to reduce healthcare claims, then it’s time to dive into a solution that’s more efficient for everybody.

The root problem is that healthcare is greatly lacking in accessibility, while also being wildly expensive.

Many of these employee wellness programs have popped up because healthcare is getting less accessible and more expensive. For those two reasons (and many more), employees are discouraged from seeing their doctor for preventative, regular healthcare. They only go when they absolutely need to – and sometimes, only to discover more serious health ailments. It’s a tale as old as time.

If your ultimate goal is to save money by reducing health insurance claims, there is a better, more efficient solution than a wellness program.

SOLUTION: Upgrade your Employee Wellness Program to Direct Primary Care

The truth is, we’re all operating in a sick healthcare system. And like we all say to our overworked friends, “You can’t help anyone unless you help yourself first.” That is the job of Direct Primary Care, to cure the healthcare system so we can help patients and their providers become healthy participants within that system.

Our recommendation is to drop the expensive workplace wellness program that maybe works? maybe doesn’t? and upgrade with the PROVEN and AFFORDABLE Direct Primary Care option.

What is Direct Primary Care?

Direct Primary Care is a healthcare membership. In the membership, patients contract directly with their provider for a low, flat, monthly fee for unlimited access. Employers can contribute to that fee, too (with Strada, the fee is $99/month). The membership covers most of the patient’s healthcare needs.

The unlimited access to their provider actually encourages patients to see their provider often. They can text or call or go in for a physical appointment. Patients develop better, more personalized relationships with their providers. Providers gain a deeper understanding of the patient’s history, genetics, lifestyle and more. The main focus becomes prevention and lifestyle change, versus a 10-minute appointment and quick prescription write-up.

This means a significant increase in long-term health, not only managing but reversing chronic conditions, and an overall, long-term decrease in healthcare costs (for you and them).

What’s more, Direct Primary Care eliminates 100% of primary care claims and significantly reduces urgent care claims.

Direct Primary Care Works with Insurance

Direct Primary Care isn’t health insurance. It does, however, work alongside high-deductible insurance plans (HDHP) to elevate the patient healthcare experience. Think of Direct Primary Care as “regular, everyday healthcare coverage,” and HDHP as a catastrophic plan – something you hopefully won’t have to use. With the lower premiums associated with HDHP and the low monthly Direct Primary Care fee, patients often find significant healthcare savings or that “My Direct Primary Care membership pays for itself.” In addition, patients pay no copays and don’t work to meet a deductible for primary care with Direct Primary Care.

Partner with an Expert to Administer and Measure Your Direct Primary Care Offering

An expert partner should be able to handle employee education and enrollment, payment processing, employee hotlines, key performance indicator (also written as KPI, measures success in particular activities) reporting and analytics, and more. You also need to choose a Direct Primary Care organization with experience, a wide network of providers, and relationships with specialists and imaging services to get the best cash prices.

You might consider partnering with Strada Healthcare, the Nebraska-based national leader in Direct Primary Care, with affiliated clinics across the country. Learn more about how we help businesses succeed in their health offerings here.