Direct Primary Care Versus a “Traditional” Doctor’s Office

The direct primary care model offers a lot of benefits clients find preferable to traditional primary care doctor offices.

Direct primary care puts the personal touch back into your doctor/ client relationship!

The direct primary care model offers a lot of benefits clients find preferable to traditional primary care doctor offices.

At a glance, these benefits can be summarized as follows:

Direct Primary Care	A “traditional” doctor’s office
A direct relationship with your healthcare provider. Less total patients per provider =’s more time with your healthcare provider. Call us, email us, text us, and we will do telemedicine as well! We are very easy to get a hold of! Labs, imaging, and prescription medications are sold at cost or with minimal markup.	Appointments feel “rushed” and “hurried.” Healthcare providers have literally several thousand patients per provider!! Availability is typically limited to standard business hours. 2-10x mark up on labs and services. Services are billed at the highest possible rate to maximize insurance payments to the practice.

The advantages of direct primary care practice over a traditional doctor’s office are clear.

Lancaster Wellness takes these benefits one step further

Direct Primary Care

Optimal nutrition, optimizing movement/ exercise, optimizing sleep, we are here to help you live your best life with evidence-based health care!

At Lancaster Wellness, we are most interested in the root cause of disease. Inspired by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, we see the value in helping our clients maximize their health potential.

We do this with a focus on optimizing these pathways to greater health:

Optimizing nutrition
Optimizing fitness/ movement
Optimizing sleep
Building resilience to stress
Assisting with tobacco or harmful substance reduction
Promoting healthy relationships

Summary

The direct primary care approach is one that allows more time for doctors and their clients to collaborate around mutual health goals. At Lancaster Wellness, we look at both medical issues and also root causes of medical issues.

We are able to invest the time necessary to help clients explore and adopt meaningful lifestyle changes that support their short and long-term health goals.