Why Direct Primary Care

The objective of direct primary care is to provide accessible high quality primary care by forming direct relationships between doctors and patients.

With direct primary care we can spend more time with patients and less time doing paperwork for one monthly membership fee.

With a membership system, patients are paying for direct ACCESS to their physician for urgent and primary care services. Health insurance is not needed in this model because these services are not generally expensive. Traditional health insurance ends up complicating primary care, limiting time that doctors get to spend face to face with their patients.

Through this model, Better Health DPC strives to prevent ER visits, hospitalizations, unnecessary specialty referrals, as well as chronic illness and in the end, save patients money, regardless of whether they have health insurance. If you have a high deductible insurance plan, avoiding urgent care and ER visits can save hundreds if not thousands of dollars at the end of the year. Couple this this savings on labs and medications, and DPC becomes a better financial choice for your primary care.

Better Health DPC meets the needs of patients who are tired of having to wait months to see their primary care physician, spending very little time with them, only to receive surprise bills they cannot afford. With direct primary care, prices are transparent and communicated to the patient ahead of time. Patients have more control over their healthcare spending.

At affordable rates, Better Health DPC can typically handle 90% of all healthcare needs. As a patient, you will have direct communication with Dr. Gagnon through text or phone and actually feel like you have a trusting relationship with your doctor.