DPC Membership Fees & Costs: Understanding the Value

Hi, I’m Dr. Melita Tate with Grassroots Healthcare. Hi, I’m Brooke Schaive with Grassroots Healthcare. I’m a board-certified pediatrician, and I’m a board-certified Internal Medicine physician, so we take care of babies all the way up to grown-ups. The majority of our practice, I think, is grown-ups, but we have quite a few young people as well. What we want to talk about is our direct primary care, how you can have access to your physician. So when you need someone to help you decide if you need a visit, sometimes with direct Primary Care, you can just text us a picture of that toenail that’s hanging off. We can let you know if you need to come in and see us or if it’s something that you could just tape up at home, you know, different things like that. It sounds crazy, but we can save time if you’re trying to just get in quickly, leave a urine sample, head back to work. We can call you, say, “Hey, what are your symptoms? Here’s what we found. This is what we’re going to do next.” You know, it doesn’t have to always be that you come, sit in the waiting room for a long time, sit in the patient room waiting on us for a long time. We can kind of expedite things. That’s one helpful thing about direct Primary Care, being able to get a hold of your physician whenever you have questions or need them. And then also, you know, patients have access to appointments. So if there’s something new about your case, one of the things I don’t like about conventional medicine is that frequently when you go in, the doctors or the staff members will say, “Now Miss Jones, you can only tell the doctor one or two complaints today because your visit is limited.” And if it’s 12 complaints that could lead the doctor to the right diagnosis, then we’re really missing the boat, and all we’re doing is treating symptoms instead of coming to the conclusion of what’s really at the root cause of it. And so I love that we have enough time. I mean, I feel like I always have plenty of time. My patient’s a priority for us. We know to allot that time with each patient so you get a full visit when you come, and you feel well taken care of when you leave. That’s always our goal. And if we still feel like there’s things that we haven’t got to address with you, you know, say we have a long visit but we’re still looking, we always schedule our patients for follow-ups to come back, you know, to make a little progress and then re-evaluate where we’re at and progress forward. We get patients with a lot of chronic problems that the conventional medicine world has maybe failed to adequately address or figure out, and so we try looking for, you know, a root cause for all of these symptoms. And so we do see patients that are fairly complicated and have had a long history in and out of the so we try to support our patients, we try to support their families and the community with education, and we want to be here for you. And if that sounds like something that’s appealing to you, please call our front desk and talk to Jane or Ally, and we’ll get you all the information you need.