Benefits of Direct Care
The Emerald Direct Primary Care Experience
How Direct Care is Different
Direct Care
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Traditional Care
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Focus on health and prevention.
Personalized, close relationship between doctor and patient.
Communication is flexible - by phone, email, text, video visit, in-office, or home visit.
Transparent costs - all care and procedures included in monthly membership fee.
Small patient panel, usually 400-600 patients.
Adequate time with patients; visits are relaxed and duration is as long as needed to address any and all concerns. (Avg appt time: 30-60 minutes.)
Patient-focused. Focus is on keeping patients healthy rather than seeing large volume of patients for revenue.
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Reactionary, addresses problems when they occur.
Fragmented care, patient often directed to urgent care or ER, or shuffled to another provider.
Barriers to communication outside of in-office visits.
Costs are confusing and hidden - between co-pays, extra charges, facility fees, bills for questionnaires, etc.
Larger patient panel, usually 2000-3000+ patients.
Visits are short and rushed, and limited number of problems can be addressed. (Avg appt time: 10-20 minutes.)
Production-focused. Doctors pressured to see high volume of patients to generate revenue.