Direct Primary Care Consumer Guide: 2015 Edition: Closing The Gap Between Your Doctor, Your Health & Your Wallet.

In this revised, 2015 Edition, learn the basics about this emerging healthcare delivery model in healthcare and revolutionizing the primary care physician office and forever changing the doctor-patient relationships. "When you think of Andy Griffith-style medicine, the doctor had a clinic in the local town. It’d be strange for him to say, ‘What kind of insurance does Opie have?’” says Michael Tetreault, Editor-in-Chief of The Direct Primary Care Journal. Direct Primary Care (DPC) doctors/offices usually offer monthly care fees which are not reimbursable by any health insurance company, and may not be applied to any insurance plan deductible. Your insurance plan may be billed by others for services such as emergency, hospital, specialty care, laboratory tests, diagnostic imaging, prescription drugs or other goods and services that are ordered by your DPC doctor/office health care provider but are not performed or provided in their offices. Look inside, find your doctor, find our checklist of 50 Questions you should ask your DPC Doctor, FAQs and Answers and learn so much more with this introduction to DPC in 2015!