Interview with Ron Barshop
In today’s podcast, Ron Barshop explains how to save healthcare, satisfy patients, and fix physician burnout.
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Ron Barshop is a serial entrepreneur with several ventures serving primary care physicians. His podcast Primary Care Cures presents thought leaders and CEOs of companies improving primary care and the majority of what’s wrong with healthcare. And it has been featured on top healthcare podcast lists.
He has served as chairman of multiple capital campaigns as well as two angel networks. He has run ten marathons and received both local and national leadership accolades. Healthcare is Fixed is one of his books (soon to be released).
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What is DPC?
Direct Primary Care is a subscription-based program for connecting patients with physicians. It allows for immediate and continuous access to care. Most people might know it as concierge or “VIP” care. However, it has evolved to include a more grass-roots, scalable method for accessing care.
It enables doctors to provide medical coverage to a panel of 600 to 800 patients. And, instead of offering a six-to-eight-minute interaction with patients, DPC physicians spend 30 minutes or more with them during face-to-face visits. With DPC, coding and billing are no longer a concern.
Support for Independent Practitioners
Ron described four companies that support physicians in developing their DPC practices that have been featured on the Primary Care Cures Podcast. They are helping independent doctors start their own practices wherever they live.
- Episode 165 – Chris Habig, Freedom Healthworks. Doctors don’t need to become entrepreneurs overnight. The company handles money, marketing, and all the backend work, and hiring is very much turnkey.
- Episode 21 and Episode 42 – Dr. Josh and Kirk Umbehr, Atlas MD. More than half of the independent DPCs in the nation were started with Atlas MD.
- Episode 25 – Dr. Paul Thomas, Plum Health. Paul Thomas established his own practice right after finishing his residency. He will shortly be launching his third practice. He explains how to launch swiftly using social media, and introduces other tools to help DPC start-ups.
- Episode 59 – Dr. Brian Forrest, Access Healthcare Direct. He has helped launch more than a hundred distinct DPCs.
Summary
Physicians who feel burned out should look into direct payment models. There is consulting support for starting up an independent practice. And there are large companies that will add you to their DPC networks. You can leam more about this growing phenomenon by listening to the Primary Care Cures Podcast. A list of all of the episodes can be found here: primarycarecures.com/podcast-episodes/
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Links for Today’s Episode:
- Ron Barshop’s Website
- Primary Care Cures Podcast
- Achieve Beautiful Balance as Medical Director and Concierge Physician – 234
Companies Mentioned in This Episode:
- Freedom Works – 165
- Atlas MD – 21
- Atlas MD – 22
- Plum Health – 25
- Access H/C Direct – 59
- First Stop Health – 130
- Proactive MD – 138
- Next Level Urgent Care – 126
- Nice Healthcare – 113
- Marathon Health – 164
- Medici – 118
- Medici – 58
- 98point6 – 62
- Crossover Health – 111
- Premise Health – 110
- Everside Health – 106
Value-based Care ACO Companies:
- ChenMed – 64
- Village MD – 84
- Catalyst Healthcare 45
- Nextera Healthcare – 28
- Redirect Health – 121
- Redirect Health – 29
- Redirect Health 6
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