CI Storytelling recently featured Dr. Chinelo Okoye, founder and physician at Katy Premier Primary Care, a DPC practice located in Katy, TX. Teaming up with small businesses, Katy Premier Primary Care is paving the way for the adoption of a direct primary care model as an effective solution for business owners facing the surging costs of health insurance premiums. Founded by Dr. Chinelo Okoye, Katy Premier Primary Care is dedicated to delivering primary care that centers around the pivotal doctor-patient relationship, which she says is an integral aspect of the direct primary care model.
Dr. Okoye is educating the business community about the benefits of DPC. The combination of the direct primary care model and specific insurance plans empowers employers to improve employee well-being, reduce hospitalization costs, and maintain top-tier health coverage while efficiently controlling healthcare expenditures. The combination of the direct primary care model and specific insurance plans empowers employers to improve employee well-being, reduce hospitalization costs, and maintain top-tier health coverage while efficiently controlling healthcare expenditures.
The approach involves specialized benefits advisors who combine direct primary care with specific health insurance plans, resulting in significant savings on health insurance premiums. By incorporating direct primary care into these plans, employers can provide quality care to their employees at a reasonable cost. In essence, this approach offers a solution for businesses facing these challenges.
In the article, Dr. Okoye also emphasized the DPC practices can also keep employees healthier due to their smaller patient loads, direct primary care physicians can offer targeted care to patients who require additional assistance in achieving and maintaining good health. Because physicians are able to pay closer attention to patients, they can help prevent chronic ailments and enhance the management of existing conditions, which can ultimately avert costly hospitalizations.
Under this model, patients establish a direct connection with their doctor. Operating with a limited number of patients—unlike traditional practices with hundreds or thousands—allows for meticulous, efficient care. In our case, our patient capacity doesn’t exceed 400, ensuring accessible, high-quality service.
While Katy Premier Care provides plans for businesses, it also provides care for all the community. A membership in Katy Premier Primary Care is perfect for everyone including people with great insurance who want better access to high quality healthcare, people with no insurance, people with high deductible health insurance plans, members of health share ministries and small business owners/self- employed people who want to lower their healthcare costs or the healthcare costs of their employees.
Dr. Okoye has over ten years in the medical field with a range of experiences, and she is now focused on providing quality healthcare to the Katy community. She lives in Katy with her husband and 2 children. Her children attend Katy ISD schools and the entire family attends a local Katy church.
Dr. Okoye is a great example of how to market to both individuals and businesses in a community. Of course, for more guidance on how to do this you can also read Magic, Pixie Dust, and Miracles: A Guide for Direct Primary Care and Employers by Shane Purcell, MD of Direct Access in Anderson, SC. DPC News is also grateful to have him a a weekly contributor. Check out his posts for all things DPC and businesses every Saturday right here at DPC News.