FAQs

  • Direct Primary Care (DPC) is a healthcare model that focuses on providing comprehensive and personalized primary care services to patients. It operates on a membership-based system, where patients pay a monthly or annual fee to access a range of healthcare services directly from their healthcare provider.

  • In a DPC practice, patients have unlimited access to their primary care provider, including in-person appointments, phone consultations, and even text messaging. This direct and immediate access allows for more personalized and timely care, as well as better coordination of healthcare services.

  • Mission Health DPC offers a cost-effective alternative to healthcare models. With a fixed monthly or annual fee, patients can access a wide range of primary care services without traditional out-of-pocket costs. This can be particularly beneficial for individuals and families who require frequent or ongoing medical care.

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  • DPC providers have a much smaller panel of patients, and therefore you are able to be seen sooner with longer appointment spots if needed. You have unlimited visits, access to text your provider with a free app on your phone, below market cash pay pricing for labs and imaging, as well as no cost in office point of care testing.

  • Homeopathy is an alternative medication system that utilizes naturally occurring plants and minerals. Remedies are selected based on personality, lifestyle, and health history. Homeopathy is safe and effective based on the following:

    1. "Like Cures Like": A raw substance that causes symptoms in a healthy person can be diluted, potentized, and used treat similar symptoms in a sick person. 

    2. Law of Minimum Dose: Remedies are diluted to extreme levels (sometimes to the point of no original molecules) to increase their effectiveness, a process called "potentization" for the sole purpose of maximizing treatment and reducing side effects.

  • DPC membership fees do not cover specialist care, hospital visits, or ER fees, and one still needs insurance for those. However, since routine care is covered, many patients save by switching to a high deductible plan which costs less per month. By pairing a high deductible or health-sharing plan with a DPC membership that includes lower cost labs/imaging, many patients get better care while saving money.