Healthy Aging: Direct Primary Care’s Approach to Senior Health
While primary care is critical for people in all age groups, there are some potent benefits that are specific to ...
Category: Direct Primary Care
Personalized Preventive Care Leads to Significant Reduction in Hospital Utilization
There’s a significant–and growing–body of scientific literature that supports one simple idea: patients who receive preventive care tend to have ...
What’s the Difference Between MD/DOs, NPs, and PAs?
When you get sick or need a checkup, you probably make an appointment to go see a doctor. But sometimes, ...
What Our Direct Primary Care Patients Look Like
Direct primary care (DPC) patients have the opportunity to spend more time with their doctors, communicate more regularly about their ...
Top 5 Ways Your Insurance Influences Your Primary Care Doctor’s Care
Health insurance is supposed to enable patients to more easily access healthcare. But that’s not always the way it works ...
Paying for Primary Care – Traditional vs. Direct Primary Care
Maybe you have a sore throat. You’d like to know if it’s strep throat or not, but office visits under ...
Direct Primary Care vs. Traditional Primary Care
Knowing the differences between direct primary care and traditional primary care can help you choose which option might be better ...
6 Reasons Why You Should See Your Primary Care Doctor
In some ways, medicine is more powerful and more accessible than ever. If you have a sore throat or a ...
Dietary Supplements for the Immune System
When you were a child, you might have eaten those (somehow delicious) Flintstones Vitamins. They were chalky and tangy, and ...
Good Nutritional Habits
We all want to be healthy. For good reason! Whether you’re a teen or a senior, nutrition is one of ...
How to Get Better Quality Sleep
Your body needs sleep. The funny thing about our busy lifestyles is that we’re often tricked into thinking a good ...
Exercise at Home
Your local gym likely has no shortage of equipment: stair machines, rowers, bench presses, free weights, treadmills, ellipticals--you name it. ...
Travel Medicine
Travel adventures are supposed to take place on the streets of Paris, not in the narrows of your intestinal tract! ...
Direct Primary Care vs. Concierge Medicine Costs
For most patients, there’s no getting around the fact that cost is a significant factor when weighing healthcare choices. That’s ...
Do You Need a Primary Care Physician?
You’re young, you feel good, and you seem healthy. Everything’s in working order, it seems–so do you really need a ...
Benefits of Direct Primary Care
Maybe you have a sore throat. You’d like to know if it’s strep throat or not, but office visits under ...
Should I Get Health Insurance if I Join a Direct Primary Care Practice?
As a direct primary care practice, Progressive Health Primary Care will never bill your insurance company. That’s because nearly all ...