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About Dr. Sharyl Truty
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Now Hiring a Second Physician
We are pleased to announce an opening in our practice! We’re looking to bring on another physician with a start date as soon as possible.
Established Direct Primary Care practice in need of an additional physician (MD or DO) who is interested in growing a direct primary care practice for our expanding needs. This practice is a low-volume, high-quality membership-based medicine setting. We are in search of a well-trained, compassionate physician board certified or board eligible in Internal Medicine or Family Practice in the US with a strong interest in becoming part of a membership-based practice model and in Integrated Medicine. The successful candidate for this position will be working with one other physician and a full staff as part of a close-knit team. Strong interpersonal skills are required as well as board certification. This is an outpatient only setting working various hours Monday-Friday at one office clinic site. The after-hour calls are shared equally.
The ideal candidate:
- Has a broad scope of practice, including office-based procedures and is open to expanding their skill set
- Is someone with a firm commitment to evidence-based medicine with the nuance to understand when best practice isn’t feasible for different patient populations.
- Someone who has an interest or is open to holistic medicine, yet maintains a knowledge of evidence-based medicine with the nuance to understand when best practice isn’t feasible for some populations
- Has a desire to work outside of the insurance and corporate complex in healthcare -- and shudders at the thought of clicking boxes for the sake of clicking boxes.
- Has a desire to care for people from all walks of life while providing a superior customer service experience in healthcare.
- Desires overall autonomy in practice and hours without the headache of running a clinic.
- Is willing to take full responsibility for a patient’s care -- even when that means stepping into the role of case management or taking the time to relay results directly to the patient.
- Displays empathy and respect for those for whom they care and with whom they work.
We require licensure in Florida, current malpractice, board certification, etc. along with clean background checks, stellar references, and a good culture fit with our current staff & philosophy of care. Plus you have to like us, too.
Please respond to jobs@balancedphysiciancare.com with your CV and cover letter explaining why you’ve got the right stuff for Balanced Physician Care. Positively reviewed candidates will be invited into a formal application process.
We’re excited to work with you!
Sharyl Truty, MD
Job Type: Full-time or Part Time
Pay: Compensation is to be primarily productivity based with an option for a Salary + Bonus. The Practice will provide structure for overhead as well as sales and marketing support to building a new practice.
Benefits:
- Sedera Health Medical Cost Sharing Membership
- Family Balanced Physician Care Membership
Medical Specialty:
- Primary Care
Schedule:
- Flexible shifts
- Monday to Friday
- On call
Education:
- Doctorate (Required)
Experience:
- Family Medicine
License/Certification:
- Florida license (Preferred)
- DEA Certification (Preferred)
- malpractice policy in your own name (Preferred)
Work Location:
- One location
Relocation Assistance Provided:
- No
This Job Is Ideal for Someone Who Is:
- Dependable -- more reliable than spontaneous
- People-oriented -- enjoys interacting with people and working on group projects
- Adaptable/flexible -- enjoys doing work that requires frequent shifts in direction
- Detail-oriented -- would rather focus on the details of work than the bigger picture
- Autonomous/Independent -- enjoys working with little direction
Company's website:
- www.BalancedPhysicianCare.com
Work Remotely:
- No
COVID-19 Precaution(s):
- Remote interview process
- Personal protective equipment provided or required
Please send resume and cover letter to jobs@balancedphysiciancare.com
Can we be your child’s Pediatrician?
At Balanced Physician Care we often have patients who are confused about whether we can be their child’s doctor too. As Family Physicians, trained in Family Medicine, we are able to take care of kids too! Sharyl Truty MD trained at Loyola Stritch School of Medicine and had lots of Pediatric patients at ParkWest Family Physicians and Seton Family Health Center in Chicago, IL.
Family Doctors, in general, tend to be more focused on "outpatient medicine". This means that for adults and children, our training is much more focused on things that happen to you outside of the hospital, and a bit less focused on hospital-related issues (as compared to Internal Medicine adult doctors and Pediatric doctors who spend more time training inside the hospital on “inpatient medicine” during their residency). Therefore, we are well equipped to see your children in our office for well child checkups, vaccinations, sick visits, chronic illness care, and everything in between!
We work with Pediatric Specialists - i.e. trained in Allergy Medicine, Cardiology, or Endocrinology, to name a few - when needed for pediatric patients who have issues that are beyond our scope of training. That allows us to work alongside experts in specific medical diagnoses to help ensure our patients have the best care possible.
Just like all of our adult patients, our pediatric patients (who range in age from newborn to teenager), get the same treatment that all Balanced Physician Care patients are accustomed to. This includes same day acute office visits for illnesses and unlimited access by phone/Zoom/email directly to your doctor. Kids will never have to wait in a crowded waiting room full of sick kids at Balanced Physician Care.
The most valuable service we offer to parents of pediatric patients is the peace of mind of knowing that we are always no more than a phone call or text message away. So, if your child wakes up in the middle of the night with a high fever or your daycare sends them home with the request for a doctor’s visit, you will be able to reach your child’s doctor immediately. To find out more about our family plans at Balanced Physician Care - that includes our pediatric care - check out our membership page
Some abandoning health insurance for monthly medical care memberships
With health care costs on the rise, a growing number of Americans are throwing out the old way of seeing a doctor and turning to a membership model. A monthly or annual fee gets you direct access to a doctor, no insurance needed.
Balanced Physician Care is a membership-based primary care practice located in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Please give us a call at 904-930-4774 for more information.
Direct Primar Care Webinar 2020
Direct Primary Care (DPC) is an innovative alternative payment model improving access to high functioning healthcare with a simple, flat, affordable membership fee. No fee-for-service payments. No third party billing. The defining element of DPC is an enduring and trusting relationship between a patient and his or her primary care provider. Patients have extraordinary access to a physician of their choice, often for as little as $69 per month, and physicians are accountable first and foremost their patients. DPC is embraced by health policymakers on the left and right and creates happy patients and happy doctors all over the country!
Better Health Outcomes
Patients achieve superior health outcomes with Direct Primary Care's innovative service delivery. DPCs provide better access to physicians, empower an authentic therapeutic relationship, and comprehensive patient care.
Lower Costs
Affordable, transparent costs based on a periodic overall flat rate (i.e. membership or subscription). Patients pay for their care directly to the physician. No third parties or Fee for Service billing ("FFS") to inflate costs. Most DPC memberships/subscriptions cost less than the average cell phone bill.
Enhanced Patient Experience
Patients receive unrestrictive access to their healthcare provider, report little to no wait time, and longer appointments (in person, virtually, or phone). In turn, creating a real therapeutic relationship between patient and provider.
Comprehensive Evaluation of Direct Primary Care (DPC)
Society of Actuaries Report:
Primary Care is Foundational; DPC provides important new alternative
Improves patient-doctor relationship
Reduces ER visits and unnecessary care, lowers costs for employers
Improves physician satisfaction
The DPC Coalition and American Academy of Family Physicians spent two years in collaboration with Milliman and the Society of Actuaries on a comprehensive evaluation of Direct Primary Care (DPC) as a growing health care delivery and financing model. The full report was published last week by the Society of Actuaries as a part of their ongoing research on health care cost trends. The Society of Actuaries report shows how the new and growing DPC financing and delivery model provides an alternative to traditional fee-for-service-based primary care, improving the patient-doctor relationship, reducing the fragmentation of patient care, as well as personal and professional satisfaction for PCPs.
This important research shines new actuarially sound light on how DPC generates system wide reductions in unnecessary health care utilization such as hospitalization, emergency department usage, radiology and certain diagnostics, and specialist care, leading to broad-based health care cost savings. “Primary care physicians (PCPs) are the front line of health care,” the report concludes. “How often a patient accesses primary care, and the quality of that care, can have significant impacts on downstream costs and patient health outcomes.” However, the study concludes, “while PCPs are almost universally acknowledged as essential to achieving the health care Triple Aim of providing high-quality care, at lower cost,” the current state of primary care as being in crisis characterized by physician burnout, large patient panels, and low pay for PCPs relative to other physician specialties with increased administrative burden and longer work hours. Key data points:
Virtual Care and Telehealth are at the core of DPC service offerings:
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99% of all DPC practices surveyed were doing virtual consults via text/phone as a part of the membership fee (two years prior to COVID-19).
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88% said they provided “telemedicine” benefits (meaning expanded video or additional digital communications assets).
Enrollment in DPC is associated with a reduction in overall member demand for health care services outside primary care:
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DPC members had 19.90% lower claim costs for employers on an unadjusted basis and 12.64% lower claim costs on a risk-adjusted basis during the two-year period.
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DPC members experienced approximately 40% fewer ER visits that those in traditional plans.
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DPC members experienced a 53.6% reduction in ER claims cost.
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DPC members experienced 25.54% lower hospital admissions on an unadjusted basis. While this figure may have statistically variance, it validates previous research trends showing a reduction in the use of hospitalization and more complex specialty care by DPC members.
DPC is Affordable Primary Care:
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The average adult monthly DPC Fee is $73.92. (DPC fees are paid on a monthly subscription basis).
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Concierge patients enrolled in an MDVIP membership pay an annual membership fee ranging from $1,650 to $2,200; MDVIP also bills third-party payers for all services provided to members.
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The median age for DPC patient was 31.8 years old, v. 36.1 for traditional insured (PPO). The survey finds the member mix did not vary materially between the DPC option and traditional option.
LEarn more about Balanced Physician Care Direct Primary Care
*article is courtesy of DPC Coalition
Last Saturday in the Park
Video of Tai Chi Class on May 30, 2020
Free class every last saturday of the month sponsored by Balanced Physician Care
Instruction by Tai Chi for Health & Wellness (taichihealthandwellness.com)
Location: Oceanfront Park - Jacksonville Beach, FL
