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December 21, 2023

Direct Primary Care for Small Businesses

Dr. Sharyl Truty Direct Primary Care Direct Primary Care, Small Business 0 Comments

Is Direct Primary Care (DPC) for small businesses the solution you need? Let me ask you a few questions.

Are you a small business owner who wants to take care of your employees but you don’t have the time and resources to take on health insurance?

Is putting together a healthcare package beyond your HR department’s means? Do you even have an HR department? Most small businesses consider an HR department a luxury!

America was born on the foundation of mom-and-pop businesses. The idea was that anyone could start a business and succeed with the right amount of passion and work ethic.

However, the corporatization of American businesses, combined with the current pandemic, has made it more difficult for small businesses to stay open – much less provide the healthcare coverage their employees deserve.

But there’s the other option I mentioned: DPC for small businesses

Not only does health insurance get more and more complicated every year, but also policy prices and medical costs have skyrocketed.

That’s why I originally walked away from the insurance model that’s taken over our healthcare system and embraced the Direct Primary Care model. It was an easy decision really. I believe people deserve accessible, affordable, high-quality medical care.

I also believe that a strong personal relationship between a doctor and their patient is crucial to an individual’s overall wellbeing.

Our Direct Primary Care offering for small businesses is simply taking this idea a step further.

What is the DPC Model?

Exactly what it says: Direct Primary Care. No insurance middle man. A direct connection between patient and primary care doctor.

DPCs like mine work off of a monthly membership fee. For this set monthly fee, patients receive personalized health care whenever they need it.

7 Reasons Why DPC Would be a Good Fit For Your Small Business

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1 DPC saves you and your employees money. A DPC membership provides 24/7 access to primary care for a flat monthly fee. Many employees with high-deductible health plans avoid getting the care they need – or get swamped by medical bills until their deductibles are met.

2 DPC membership is convenient and local. Employees have clinic access during regular business hours as well as after-hour, weekend, or holiday access via text or phone.

3 Your employees will be healthier. Access to affordable and convenient medical care reduces absenteeism and improves productivity. There are no barriers to care like co-pays or high premiums.

4 DPC can reduce absenteeism. When people have the opportunity to take care of acute or chronic conditions, they’re going to be healthier and come to work more often. One of the benefits that avoids absences is that doctors can even consult with patients via phone or telemedicine. This reduces the need for in-person visits during office hours.

5 The low cost of DPC membership allows you to create competitive benefits packages.

6 Offering access to medical care shows your employees that you value them. This can support a positive company culture that will help your business thrive.

7 DPC for small businesses is attractive to employees. As I mentioned earlier, DPC fosters a close doctor-patient relationship, which leads to a more personalized health care experience and a healthier and happier employee. It’s also easy to add spouses and children to DPCs.

Are you ready to break free of the conventional model and bring DPC to your small business?

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October 24, 2018

Why Direct Primary Care Health Coverage Should Be Incorporated Into Your Employee Benefits Package

Dr. Sharyl Truty Direct Primary Care Employee Benefits, Small Business 0 Comments

Here are 7 reasons why Direct Primary Care health coverage should be incorporated into your employee benefits package:

It saves money. Direct Primary Care can provide substantial savings and improved cost controls for employers in managing overall health benefit expenses. The goal is to reduce utilization of the insurance plan at urgent care and emergency rooms. This approach typically saves employers double-digits over traditional group plans, while delivering a far better care experience. Also it can minimize employees’ out-of-pocket expenses and helps solve their avoidance of care for financial reasons – workers should not have to forgo healthcare because they don’t want to pay their co-pay, or their deductible is sky high.

It reduces absenteeism and presenteeism. By taking advantage of the proactive, preventative nature of direct primary care, employees stay active in the workforce and keep out of the hospital and urgent care clinics.

It’s convenient. Direct Primary Care provides employees convenient and unfettered access to their primary care physician—enjoying prompt appointments, exceptional care, and easy utilization. By having direct cell phone and email access to the doctor, employees no longer have to wait hours in a waiting room to interact with the doctor to answer a simple question, get a shot of support, or even a prescription refill.

It helps employers retain their best employees. As competition for talented employees intensifies in the coming years, small businesses will have to find ways to attract and keep good workers. So, providing quality health coverage is an important bargaining chip to give you the competitive edge for attracting and retaining talented employees.

It boosts employee engagement. Whatever an employer can do to improve morale—and quality health benefits do that—makes employees feel more positive about their work and their employer.

It heightens job satisfaction. Health benefits communicate to the employee a concern for their physical well-being and shows them a desire of their employer to invest in their total well-being, helping them achieve a better work/life balance.

It sets a good example. Placing value on healthcare in the workplace can energize workers to place importance on it at home as well. This is important for busy adults who have limited free time due to job and family commitments. But when an employer places a lot of emphasis on healthcare, that helps place emphasis at home too.

So before your next renewal, or if you’re interested in starting a health benefits program for your employees, let Balanced Physician Care provide you with a free, no obligation analysis of your current (or future) health benefits’ plan.

Many employers are converting their health insurance policies to high deductible, often with a deductible as high as $10,000 per person or family per year. For a family with members that have chronic illnesses, the costs of healthcare will be very substantial indeed at this level. Employees will arguably feel that their employer has walked away from them and saddled them with costs that they simply cannot bear. The company can partially offset the inherent anger this generates among its employees by paying the fee for a direct primary care practice. It is especially valuable for the individual with multiple chronic illnesses since quality primary care can mean much better health, many fewer tests, prescriptions, specialist referrals and hospitalizations. I suspect that employers will be the major reason for direct primary care membership/retainer-based practice growth in the coming years as they will essentially demand that level of service for their employees — and in so doing they will be reducing their company health care costs as a result of high quality primary care.

As a bonus service, we can potentially reduce your worker’s compensation costs by treating some worker injuries within our Balanced Physician Care plan, which reduces the overall costs of claims filed. Over time, lower claim costs could reduce your workers’ comp premium costs.

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