Our last blog discussed our new direction for To Your Health and Wellness, and the communities we are now caring for. It has not only been extremely rewarding for us, it has also opened the door to be able to provide a BETTER primary care service for the Levy/Dixie/Gilchrist County areas!
In the upcoming months, we will roll out a way to save your money, increase your access to local health care and introduce you to To Your Health and Wellness, LLC’s Direct Primary Care… Right in your hometown!
You may ask, what is a direct primary care?
It is an innovative alternative payment model improving access to high functioning, local healthcare with a simple, flat, affordable membership fee.
There is no need to go to the office (or Gainesville!) for needless visits! With direct primary care (DPC) you can easily call, text or email your provider to decide if you need an appointment or not. You have access to your provider when you need it, with no insurance company to hassle with! We offer predictable/affordable costs and transparent pricing. No more unexpected medical bills! We also will soon be able to offer inexpensive medications dispensed in-house, affordable in-house labs offered and so much more! A complete list of our services will soon be available, including discounts for our current Biote hormone pellet therapy patients and for our current weight loss management patients!
At To Your Health and Wellness, as most of you know, insurance is not accepted. But to expand our services and what we can offer you- what we will soon offer, is an affordable monthly memberships, which covers your primary care needs, including annual physicals, sick visits, various urgent care and in-office procedures, well woman visits, school/sports physicals, medically guided weight loss, etc.
We will still be offering hormone optimization to non-members, however if you become a DPC member, you will save !5% on your pellet insertions, and specialty labs related to hormone optimization! We strongly encourage membership to our hormone optimization patients as we believe your BEST care is for the entire person (and saving money helps too!).
Unfortunately, due to government restrictions, we cannot accept Medicaid or Medicare patients.
The monthly membership fees for our Direct Primary Care Program are:
$50.00 a month for adults
$25.00 a month for kids
To honor our first responders, veterans and law enforcement, we will offer 10% off memberships, and half off enrollment fees. Please inquire about families larger than 5, single parent rates and small business pricing/billing.
Additionally, we offer a family membership for, $150.00 per month for the whole family (up to 5, two adults and 3 children). There is a one-time enrollment fee of $80 per adult, $50.00 per child or a max enrollment fee of of $200 for a family, however for the month of August, we will WAIVE the enrollment fees, so you can get started today!
Do you own a small business? Small businesses may qualify for group discounts as well as the ability to provide your employees with an affordable option for ensuring they have access to quality, local health care. This not only improves employee satisfaction, retention and productivity, but decreases absences and time away from the office/job going to Gainesville for appointments!
Benefits of choosing direct primary care (DPC) include the following:
• Convenient, cost effective way for patients to receive high quality local healthcare.
• Patients have a direct relationship with their provider.
° Providers respond to patient’s text, emails and phone calls the same day!
° Sick visits frequently can be handled via “telehealth”. Therefore, reducing the need for the patient to travel to the medical office.
° Providers spend more time with each patient seen, resulting in:
■ More time for questions and formulating individualized treatment plans.
■ Broader scope of care, drastically reducing the amount of specialist referrals.
° Takes healthcare for patients and their provider back to the “good old days” when patients knew their provider personally and you pay for services directly with no middle man (insurance company).
° Most healthcare services the patients need can be taken care of in the office, eliminating long wait times or entire day spent going to appointments!
• Patients, or their employer, only pay a month membership fee directly to the practice via a convenient autopay billing system, for primary care services. We do have options to pay annually, as well as seasonally for part-time residents/students etc. No co-pays for general office visits and very affordable labs, medication and a nominal, affordable prices for many in-office procedures such as skin-tag removals, simple sutures, splints, foreign body removal (such as splinter/glass etc), ear wax impaction cleansing and many more! Up front prices mean NO surprise bills after the fact or fears of addressing issues due to cost!
° Direct Primary Care is not insurance- it is a collaboration between patients and providers to provide primary care in a setting of comfort, affordability and accessibility.
° No bills to insurance, no insurance claims to be processed ie- more time with your provider and no surprise bills in the mail! This model is not just for the uninsured.. works well with high deductible plans or plans that chose your provider for you. We work WITH you and you ALWAYS know who you will see at your visit!
° We, being YOUR Primary Care Provider take a needs-driven approach to their patient interactions… rather than being driven by a reimbursement model. This means we have no incentive to force patients into the office for an unnecessary face-to-face visit in person, when a webcam, phone call, or email exchange would do. (saving you time, money and PTO for those vacations you so deserve!)
° For one monthly membership fee, the patient can be seen as many times as necessary to address your primary and situational medical needs.
° Inexpensive medications offered at our in-house pharmacy (coming soon!) often saving patients HUNDREDS of dollars on prescription medications! We have the ability to offer MANY common medications for 90% off what you normally pay “with insurance”.
° We can help coordinate agreements with specialists, imaging centers, and lab companies to lower the costs incurred by the patient overall, with or without insurance!
Have more questions, or interested in learning more about us… visit our website- be sure to join our email list for updates or call 352-363-1034 to ask any questions you may have!
Ready to join and start taking control of YOUR CARE??? Here is the enrollment info – click here!
As a reminder, direct primary care is not insurance- and patients that choose to enroll will still need to consider catastrophic/major medical insurance coverage in the event of an emergency, hospital stay or surgery. We suggests checking into a cost sharing ministry such as Christian Healthcare Ministries as an option. We will be happy to help you explore these plans that is right for your family!
