Direct primary care creates a pay-to-play system that excludes middle- and low-income patients, who already face barriers.

Proponents herald the practice as a free-market approach to providing medical care, while critics say it could widen health ...

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Subscription models gives patients benefits unheard of in most primary care offices, from home checkups to direct phone access to their providers.

Direct primary care offers doctors a way to keep insurance companies out of their business. They say this helps them provide ...

Direct primary care does not make sense for everyone. Memberships do not cover everything, and patients still need to buy insurance so they are covered for major medical expenses and specialty care.

Though providers and patients in direct primary care prefer the model, it does not replace all medical services.

Kopelman is a one-woman show, operating Personalized Pediatrics of Maine in Portland, a direct primary care practice. She is not affiliated with or beholden to any large hospital system ...