Direct primary care

DPC delivers meaningfully better primary care experience and often lower claims costs — but it doesn't fit every situation. Here's the honest pros and cons.

Pairing DPC with a self-funded plan moves primary care utilization out of the insurance claims pipeline — improving employee experience and reducing employer claims spend.

Direct primary care and concierge medicine sound similar — both are membership models for primary care. Here's how they differ, and which one actually fits as an employee benefit.

Direct primary care (DPC) is a membership-based primary care model that bypasses insurance for routine care. Here's how it works and why employers are pairing it with self-funded plans.