The excessive amount of government intervention that has been entrenched in our nation’s health care system is curiously pushing medical providers to channel this negative energy into positive ...

A major shift is taking place in the healthcare system. We’ve been reporting on a number of local doctors, who left their traditional jobs to practice something different. Fewer patients, longer ...

Direct primary care practices (DPCs) – health care providers that charge patients a regular membership fee, instead of billing private insurance, the government or another third party, to cover most ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sally Pipes is a scholar and think tank CEO who writes on health care. The default response to statistics like these is a call for ...

A nationwide survey shows the majority of consumers would be interested in joining a direct primary care plan if it were offered through their employer. Sixty-eight percent of the 1,000 survey ...

Nonprofit giant CommonSpirit Health is partnering with direct primary care provider Paladina Health to offer direct-to-employer primary care in CommonSpirit's 21-state footprint, with the goal of ...

SOUNDING THE ALARM ABOUT A GROWING SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS NATIONWIDE. THEY HAVE. I SPOKE WITH TWO PHYSICIANS WHO SABURNOUT IN THEIR FIELD IS VERY REAL, WHICH IS WHY THEY DECIDED TO TRY SOMETHING NEW THAT ...

Direct primary care is one solution to keeping Americans healthy, but dramatic growth of these types of practices is held back by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), writes Anish Koka, M.D., a Philadelphia ...

Direct primary care is a subscription model of delivering health care that is gaining popularity in the U.S. DPC patients enjoy benefits unheard of in most primary care offices – from zero wait times ...

Providers of "direct primary care" who charge patients a monthly fee for unlimited visits and workups are poised to become big winners from the new Republican tax-and-spending law. Why it matters: The ...

Unlike other wealthy countries, the United States has a low ratio of primary care physicians relative to medical specialists. Currently, only one in three physicians practice primary care, and only ...

Direct primary care bypasses insurance middlemen to lower costs and boost access. The new law permits HSA funds to cover up to $150 monthly for DPC services. DPC promotes transparency, reduces ...