A bit about the business… Mindful Pediatrics is a membership-based virtual and in-person direct pediatric care practice. My members receive direct access to me for telehealth and in-person visits. This allows me to practice integrative medicine and provide holistic care. Wellness is the state of mind, body, spirit and environment all in balance. My goal is to optimize all these aspects to keep a child happy and healthy! How long have you been doing it? I opened my own practice in April of 2020. At the beginning of my career I worked for 10 years in the system at University of Kansas and then a ..read more

Meet Dr. Kyle Hampton, founder and practicing physician at Arktos Direct Care.  A bit about the business… Arktos Direct Care was created in 2018 due to the changing climate of healthcare. As a family practice physician, I was seeing some of the pitfalls of primary care. Too often in primary care offices today, patients are experiencing long wait times, rushed office visits, and appointments offered months away. Arktos was designed around the idea that a small patient census, personalized care, and accountability to the patients first and foremost would lead to better health outcomes for t ..read more

Meet Impact Family Wellness, a direct primary care clinic in Cedar Park, Texas. The clinic was opened three and a half years ago by Monica McKitterick, FNP-BC, after spending 10 years in the insurance-based system and realizing she’d had enough of it. Seeing 30+ patients a day and spending 3-5 minutes with them was simply not why she went into healthcare.  A bit about the business… Impact Family Wellness is a Direct Primary Care office that takes care of the whole human instead of the insurance companies. They create actual relationships with patients to ensure optimal health and wellness ..read more

Meet NoCo Primary Care, a direct primary care practice for the whole family, located in Loveland, Colorado. Dr. Phillip Rhoads and team provide transparent pricing, easy access, and health care focused on the patient-physician relationship. A bit about the business… The practice launched to support patients who want easy access to a doctor, transparent pricing, and great customer service. Unfortunately, high deductibles keep many patients from getting the care that they need, or there is frustration around having to wait weeks to see a doctor. NoCo Primary Care believes they can do better, and ..read more

Meet Dr. Robert Boyer Dr. Boyer is a primary care physician and founder of Trailhead Clinics, a Direct Primary Care (DPC) practice in Grand Junction, Colorado. The clinic has been open for three years, is using Spruce to power their patient communication, and is growing rapidly. Dr. Boyer and his team are intentional about building a practice around their core values: patient safety, respect, convenience, and access. As a membership-based primary care clinic, Trailhead seeks to increase the number of patients in their practice while still maintaining high- quality care and allowing enough time ..read more

On April 22, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new set of payment models under the Primary Cares Initiative. The initiative, which is set to begin in January of 2020, is designed to promote primary care among beneficiaries of Medicare, with the goal of preemptively addressing health concerns and reducing hospitalizations. The Primary Cares Initiative includes two specific areas of opportunity: Primary Care First and Direct Contracting. The Primary Care First model works to improve the health of the general Medicare population, while the Direct Contracting m ..read more

Meet MyMD Connect: a direct-care medical organization with locations across Texas and an undeniable knack for landing employer healthcare contracts and then succeeding with them. We’ve talked at length about the huge potential of employer contracts to help independent medical groups grow (check out our ebook and webinar on the topic), and MyMD Connect is one of the best organizations at quickly and effectively putting theory into practice. The group’s founder, Dr. Jeremy Smith, recently gave us some key insights into his team’s success, and we’re excited to share those with you now in this bri ..read more

Before you set out to land an employer contract for your DPC practice, it’s important to be aware of potential stumbling blocks that you might encounter. In this fifth and final installment of our series on DPC employer contracts, we’ll cover several business and legal issues that commonly arise during discussions with local companies and provide you strategies to address them. Some of these possible problems are relevant only to businesses with a certain number of employees or a particular type of insurance situation, but all of them can throw a monkey wren ..read more

A bit about the business… Mindful Pediatrics is a membership-based virtual and in-person direct pediatric care practice. My members receive direct access to me for telehealth and in-person visits. This allows me to practice integrative medicine and provide holistic care. Wellness is the state of mind, body, spirit and environment all in balance. My goal is to optimize all these aspects to keep a child happy and healthy! How long have you been doing it? I opened my own practice in April of 2020. At the beginning of my career I worked for 10 years in the system at University of Kansas and then a ..read more

Meet Dr. Kyle Hampton, founder and practicing physician at Arktos Direct Care.  A bit about the business… Arktos Direct Care was created in 2018 due to the changing climate of healthcare. As a family practice physician, I was seeing some of the pitfalls of primary care. Too often in primary care offices today, patients are experiencing long wait times, rushed office visits, and appointments offered months away. Arktos was designed around the idea that a small patient census, personalized care, and accountability to the patients first and foremost would lead to better health outcomes for t ..read more