NEW ORLEANS — An employee’s healthcare coverage has a huge impact on their medical decisions, with provider choice and cost of medications and treatment potential hurdles to their care. But an emerging model is providing the option of unlimited primary care for a flat fee.
With a direct primary care model employees pay a fee that provides them with unlimited access to a primary care doctor for anywhere between $60 to $150 a month — without insurance being billed. There are currently more than 1,000 DPC practices in the U.S., according to DPC Frontier, an organization that tracks this growing movement.
