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  • Can patients pay for membership with HSAs?
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  • I currently have a non-compete- is it enforceable?
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  • How do you handle vaccines?
    We use a company called vaxcare that gives us free inventory and bills patients insurance since we do not do that. We can then administer the vaccine in office for free to our patients at no cost and even sometimes get an admin fee from Vaxcare.
  • How do you get lowest prices on vendors like malpractice insurance, medical supplies, and labs?
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  • What EMR do you recommend?
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  • What is the best way to get new patients?
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  • How long will it take to fill my panel?
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  • How do you hire new providers?
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  • What is the average start up cost?
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  • What is the hardest part or being successful?
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  • Should I expect to lose current staff?
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  • Are you on call/accessible to patients 24/7? Do you give them your cell phone number?
    No, there is a misperception that all DPC docs give out their cell phone number to patients and see them immediately even on weekends. While there are some that do this, they are closer related to Concierge Practices and have much smaller panels and much higher fees. Usually, we can get our patients seen within 1-2 days in the office and they are satisfied with that. In the last 10 years I have only had about 10 after hours calls that I needed to return after hours. We use a sophisticated auto-attendant system to send transcribed emails of messages left after hours. Almost all of these are appointment requests or changes.
  • What type of salary can I expect to make?
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  • Do you take walk-ins?
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  • How much space do I need?
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  • Do I have to opt out of Medicare?
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  • How many patients will I see each day?
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  • How is Direct Primary Care different from Concierge?
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  • What is an annual overhead costs?
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  • Do I have to do anything to stop taking insurance?
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  • How do you handle referrals to specialists?
    If patients have insurance we can still refer 99% of them to any specialist or procedure and have it get fully covered. However, for patients without insurance we have negotiated cash discount rates for our patients locally that are usually 70-90% less than normal costs. This makes it affordable for them since normally insurance is only covering about 80% of the cost anyway.
  • Can I take some insurance and be a hybrid?
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  • How many staff do you need?
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  • How do you transition old model patients?
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  • How do you process monthly memberships/payments?
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