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Demystifying Healthcare Costs: Understanding What You’re Paying For
Healthcare and insurance billing can be complex and expensive, often leaving people confused about the true cost of their care.
Summit Medical Specialists offer a convenient and cost-effective way to provide quality care and improve employee healthcare.
Direct primary care (DPC) is the practice of delivering high-quality, physician-led care to employees independent of traditional employer-sponsored insurance. When a company offers Direct Primary Care, they pay the membership fee for the employee as an additional benefit to their healthcare package. Direct Primary Care is a direct relationship between the care provider and the patient, rather than having the insurance company as a middleman.
Employers embrace direct primary care because it offers a proven alternative to a system that doesn’t work, giving employees access to high-quality, physician-led clinics independent of traditional employer-sponsored insurance.
Direct Primary Care provides value and savings to companies. Employers pay considerably less for employee memberships compared to high premiums that will continue to increase over time. Our services offer the employer the assurance of a fixed cost in the monthly budget for healthcare expenses. We offer Urgent Care and unlimited office visits with no extra cost or copays. In addition, the employee benefits from increased healthcare access and quality.
Doctor visits can take hours away from an employee’s day. Working with Summit Medical Specialists offers employees convenient same-day or next-day office appointments. Patients can meet with us by email, phone, or video conference at work or home. Improved access to providers encourages employees to see their doctor when they need to before health issues develop into something more serious. Employees spend less time waiting in doctor’s offices and continue with optimal productivity at work.
Direct primary care provides a better and more convenient experience, making healthcare a recruitment and retention tool. Over time, employees enjoy better health and employers reduce costs. By providing a DPC membership, companies can create a more robust benefits package.
DPC is in fact an additional cost to current health insurance but it’s better to think of it as a redirection of once paid claims.
DPC helps offer a reduction in primary and specialty care claims as employees shift their healthcare consumption behavior. The convenient access combined with relationship-based care delivery also reduces long term care costs as well as urgent care and emergency room visits.
Therefore, DPC practices offer a better long-term healthcare investment with a focus on prevention vs. only treating patients after diagnosis.
Employees are not forced to switch their PCPs under the employer shared Direct Primary Care model. Employers can offer DPC as a voluntary benefit that employees can choose to utilize. Direct Primary Care offers a convenient, preventive care solution that removes the common barriers discouraging employees from seeking care. Aside from convenience, the benefits of their voluntary participation in Direct Primary Care are innumerable.
Summit Medical Specialists clinics offer members: Personalized, preventive care, Chronic condition management, Treatment of ailments and illness, Referrals to specialists as needed, Unlimited appointment length, Exams, labs, testing, No insurance billing, No co-pays, Same day appointments*, No wait times, 24/7 access to care, and more!
Direct primary care with Summit Medical Specialists flips the traditional healthcare narrative.
Our smaller patient pool and lower administrative burden allow us to spend as much time as necessary with each patient – whether it’s a 45-minute discussion of multiple issues or a quick phone call. Our clinic also accepts same-day appointments.
We have off-site clinics in Waukesha and Oconomowoc and an option for an on-site clinic.
Choosing a primary care physician is an important decision. Meet with Dr. Jean Ibric and Lauren Talatzko PA-C for a complimentary visit to make sure Summit Medical Specialists is the right fit for you and to learn more about our approach to wellness and medical care.
Demystifying Healthcare Costs: Understanding What You’re Paying For
Healthcare and insurance billing can be complex and expensive, often leaving people confused about the true cost of their care.