Why Direct Primary Care
Care focused on you
Great care without compromise
Are you tired of healthcare that is expensive but not very good? Would you rather your doctor work for you rather than for your insurance company?
The existing system rewards quantity and assembly line care. It incentivizes doctors to treat diseases rather than promote overall health and prevention. The result is overdiagnosis, overtreatment, inflated costs, and poorer patient outcomes. The healthcare system reduces you to a number and your life to a list of problems that require solving. Your doctor becomes a “provider,” a mere cog in a wheel. All of us are dehumanized, and all of us lose.
Direct primary care is the antidote.
At Figtree Family Medicine, Dr. Schulman provides high-quality, personalized, and accessible care, free from the constraints of insurers. Because we don’t have to waste time on meaningless insurance paperwork, we can spend it where it matters most: with you.
Why Direct Primary Care makes sense
Patient care improves
By reducing bureaucracy, we are free to focus on what we do best. We have more time to investigate health issues thoroughly and find the best treatments. Patients need fewer referrals for specialists, and they can avoid complications that arise from delayed care.
Patient satisfaction skyrockets
With Direct Primary Care, we don’t have to rush through visits with 20+ patients each day. That means that you get more personal time with your doctor. You also get access to your doctor after hours should the need arise. More contact between you and your doctor helps build a more trusting and effective relationship that you just can’t get with a seven-minute visit.
Overall healthcare costs decrease by 20 to 30 percent
Because patients have more access to their doctor and doctors have more time, we can resolve 80 percent of all healthcare needs in the primary care setting. Expensive visits to specialists, urgent care, and the emergency room decrease while overall health and well-being increases. Patients need fewer costly surgeries, medication costs can be streamlined, and labs and imaging costs can be drastically reduced.
