Direct Primary Care
Rob Gillespie
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Rob Gillespie
Telethink Direct Care, The Logical Way Forward. Now accepting CV's for established DPC practices.
- The Four Basic, Defining Characteristics of Direct Primary Care (DPC): Low-Monthly Fees; Does Not Accept Insurance; Target Audience Primarily Millennials and Generation X; Popular Among Employers.*
- Solo or Group Setting: Less than 20% of DPC doctors practice in a ‘Group’ Setting vs. a nearly 81% operate a ‘Solo’ practice, making most DPC clinics 1-3 employee operators.
- DPC Patient Panel Size: 60% of DPC physicians reported that the size of their patient panels were less than 300. Many physicians told The DPC Journal that this amount of patients was less than desirable.
- Fees: 68% of fees inside most DPC practices cost between $25 to $85 a month, on average according to The DPC Journal.
- DPC Patient Income: In two separate but related polls in 2014 and 2015, it was found in both polling groups that the majority of patients that participate in a DPC practice, approximately 59%, earn a combined annual household income of less than $95,000. Rob Gillespie dr247.md-plus.com