Our Fees

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Yes.  Any time spent by our physician providing you with services, or providing services on your behalf, will incur our care fee. This includes time spent on your site visits, your telehealth visits, consulting other care providers on your behalf, scheduling your follow-ups, accompanying you to appointments, refilling your prescriptions, processing your lab results, answering your phone calls and emails, documenting your care, completing forms on your behalf, etc.

This approach of 'billing for time' is consistent with how most professionals receive compensation in exchange for their services, and is now an expanding approach in the health care industry. Experts are increasingly realizing that the archaic 'code-based' reimbursement system currently imposed by insurance companies is greatly flawed, and unfortunately forces providers to jam more and more patients through their offices in shorter and shorter amounts of time -- a no win arrangement for physicians and patients alike. Only the insurance companies win with this approach, which is why they insist upon it, and why we insist on not participating with insurance companies at this point.  

You are finally free to request as much, or as little, service from us as you like, without insurance restraints and restrictions. How refreshing is that?!

You may actually find that paying privately and directly for care -- where you want it, when you want it -- is not only worth any extra expense, but indeed, may end up being less expensive in the long run. Consider the following cost advantages we offer:

1. We charge for the care you receive based solely on time, so you are in control . . . you choose how much, or how little, care time you require of our physician. If you have a simple matter that takes just 5 minutes to evaluate, you appropriately only pay for 5 minutes of care time!
2. You save a tremendous amount of time by having us come to you, when and where you want us. No longer do you have to take a half day, or even a full day, off work to make it to an office appointment, then fight traffic, and waste valuable time in doctor waiting rooms and exam rooms. No longer do you need to impose on a neighbor for a ride, or hire a baby sitter to watch family members while you are at your appointment. No longer do immobile patients have to secure an expensive ambulance ride to and from the doctor's office -- sometimes costing as much as $500, or more.
3. Staying at home to receive care, particularly wellness and preventative care, keeps you from getting exposed to contagious bacteria and viruses present in physician and hospital waiting rooms, exam rooms, and rest rooms -- possibly saving you from days or weeks of unnecessary illness.
4. Studies currently underway nationwide are confirming that home-based care is of higher quality, and that care, along with the individualized, rapid, on-site intervention available to home patients when they become ill, can reduce expensive ER visits, urgent care visits, and even hospital stays, not to mention missed time from work - saving hundreds, even thousands of dollars for a given illness (and potentially tens of thousands of dollars when a hospitalization is avoided.)

And with today's high deductibles, co-pays, and co-insurance, many 'insured' patients are really only insured for 'catastrophic' care . . . they end up having to 'self-pay' for front-line care anyhow, so they realize that there is minimal difference paying directly out-of-pocket for private vs. insured primary care.

Many advantages for you to consider!