Insights for Modern Clinics

Have you started your direct primary care practice, but are struggling to get patients in to fill your panel? That is ok! All businesses have highs and lows and the initial momentum from starting and getting some press eventually wears off. Now it's time to really dig into the details of how to grow your practice so that it is sustainable for you and allows you to focus on patients (the reason you got into DPC) rather than marketing or business operations.

50% of referred patients are never seen by the doctor. This results in $150 billion lost in revenue each year. Take these steps to increase revenue and keep patients healthy.

During the course of this decade, healthcare practices have switched to electronic health records (EHRs) in droves under the promise that we could easily exchange data between providers and give patients their data with a single click. The government passed a huge bill called the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009 incentivizing EHR adoption. Almost 10 years later, and EHRs have not lived up to the expectations.