Direct Care Model Eliminates Many Sources of Physician Stress

Since I changed my practice from a traditional insurance-based practice five years ago to direct primary care (DPC) model, I find myself reading the journal with a different viewpoint. Rather than poring over the articles seeking solutions to the latest billing and coding challenge, I find myself recognizing how DPC solves so many of the problems that physicians face in the practice of medicine.

While I’d be lying if I said that direct care had eliminated every bit of administrative work in my office day, I have cut my workload to the bare bones required to run a practice.

Direct care docs also don’t need to worry about payer reimbursement for virtual visits with patients. Even before COVID19, many direct care practices were already communicating with patients by phone, video, email, and text. When the pandemic struck, doctors had the infrastructure in place to seamlessly transition patients to virtual visits.