Direct Care Fact Sheet
Direct Primary Care (DPC) is growing steadily across America. This pre-paid model of care is for anyone, especially those patients without insurance or with a high deductible/out-of-pocket insurance plan. As a member, DPC allows you to see your provider in a timely manner when you need to. Providing excellent care for you is our health-care provider’s highest priority.
You can benefit from becoming a member of Heartland Medicine Colville Clinic Direct Care in several ways:
- Financially
- Health care savings
- You can save on your health-care cost through DPC. Many patients will find they get the majority of their medical care needs met through the DPC practice. DPC works well when combined with a high-deductible insurance plan which covers other high-cost health-care items (such as hospital, specialty, and surgical care), or when combined with a health ministry plan such as Christian Healthcare Ministries.
- We recommend DPC members obtain or retain catastrophic insurance coverage whenever possible.
- You can save on your health-care cost through DPC. Many patients will find they get the majority of their medical care needs met through the DPC practice. DPC works well when combined with a high-deductible insurance plan which covers other high-cost health-care items (such as hospital, specialty, and surgical care), or when combined with a health ministry plan such as Christian Healthcare Ministries.
- Medicine cost savings:
- We provide most common prescription drugs to you at our in-house dispensary for cost + $2.00/prescription.
- Outside services savings:
- We negotiate for discounted rates on such services as imaging and labs, procedures like colonoscopies, and sub-specialist evaluations.
- Health care savings
- Personally
- Personal contact with your provider:
- Being able to contact your provider through text messaging, email, or social media will give you more control over your medical care.
- Unlimited appointments:
- Having the ability to see your provider unlimited times during any given month – all for the same low monthly membership fee – will give you peace of mind and allow you to have the quality care you want and deserve.
- Personal contact with your provider:
To regularly access your primary care provider, schedule same-day or next-day appointments, talk about multiple issues at your visit, and have the peace of mind of having low-cost primary care available to you throughout the year, sign up to become a member of Heartland Medicine Colville Clinic.
Your Direct Care membership entitles you to unlimited visits with your health care provider as long as your membership is current. If your membership lapses, you will need to bring it up to current status before you can schedule a new appointment. (See Direct Care Membership Contract for more details.)
What's included in your Direct Care Membership
Medical services at Heartland Medicine Colville Clinic Direct Care are those medical services that the provider is permitted to perform under the laws of the State of Washington, are consistent with the provider’s training and experience, are usual and customary for a family medicine provider to provide, and include the following:
- Acute and non-acute office visits
- Routine physicals (sports, non-DOC driving, school, etc.)
- Well woman care/pap smears
- Well baby care
- Well child care
- Blood pressure monitoring
- Diabetic monitoring
- Peak flow testing
- IUD placement and removal
- Urinalysis
- Rapid test for strep throat
- Removal of benign skin lesions/lipomas/warts
- Cryotherapy
- Toenail removal
- Skin biopsies
- Basic vision/hearing screening
- Drawing basic labs. Labs and testing that cannot be performed in-house will be offered at a discounted rate through select vendors (small lab draw fee applies)
- The convenience of access to many common prescription medications at greatly reduced prices, dispensed on premises.
- Discounts on EKGs, wound repair and sutures, cyst removal, ear lavage, incision and drainage, breathing treatments (nebulizer or inhaler with spacer), in-house labs, send-out labs (for those without insurance), casting, x-rays, circumcision, vasectomy, and more.
Patient is responsible for all fees associated with any laboratory testing and specimen analysis.
Prescription medications dispensed by the Heartland Medicine Colville Clinic Dispensary are subject to a charge of $2 in addition to the wholesale price of the medication.
The patient is also entitled to a personalized, annual in-depth wellness evaluation that may include the following as deemed appropriate: detailed review of medical, family and social history and update of medical record; personalized health risk assessment utilizing current screening guidelines; preventative health counseling, which may include weight management, smoking cessation, behavior modification, stress management, etc.; customized wellness plan to include recommendations for immunization, additional screening tests/evaluations, fitness and dietary plans; complete physical examination and form completion as needed.
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