Check out How subscription medicine can benefit your patients — and your practice. It was very well done. Two DPC docs were interviewed, Dr. Nupur Garg and Dr. Vance Lassey.
Garg believes this approach benefits physicians and patients alike. “You’re both incentivized to keep the patient healthy,” she says. “Because the healthier they are, the fewer issues they’ll have. And then the less work you have to do. Whereas with fee-for-service, the model actually incentivizes keeping the patient unhealthy because you get paid per visit.”
For his part, Lassey came to DPC as much to improve his own mental health as to improve his patients’ physical health. Within a year of starting his first job at a hospital, he became disillusioned with the system’s “ability to make me hate the thing I loved.”
It’s always great see positive pieces about DPC come out. Great job!