The Confidence You Need to Start Your Own Direct Primary Care Practice

Startup DPC book hits 51 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews

Our book, Startup DPC: How to Start and Grow Your Direct Primary Care Practice just received its 51st review, and it has a 5-star rating overall. Our latest reviewer, Kyle, said that “After reading this book, I feel much more confident about opening my new DPC practice next year. This is a comprehensive guide, highly recommended.”

Thank you so much Kyle, and thank you to all of the people who’ve picked up a copy of our awesome book on starting and growing a direct primary care practice!

I am truly humbled by all of the kindness and positive feedback that I’ve received after publishing this book. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

Our book, Startup DPC: How to Start and Grow Your Direct Primary Care Practice just received its 51st review, and it has a 5-star rating overall.

How to Hire an Employee for Your Direct Primary Care Practice

How to Hire a Medical Assistant for Your Direct Primary Care Practice

Hiring a medical assistant or an office manage for your direct primary care practice is a huge step. This will free up more of your time to care for patients or work on administrative tasks or grow the business, as you will spend less time collecting vital signs or inventorying medications or other small tasks that you can now delegate to your medical assistant.

I would argue that the most important part of your hiring journey is finding someone that you’re going to work well with. Maybe you worked with an excellent medical assistant or nurse during your residency training and that person is available for hire. Give them a call and ask them if they’d be interested in joining your practice. If so, this will work out well, because you’ve already worked with them and you will have a mutual understanding about expectations.

There are several items you need to check off your list before you hire an employee for your direct primary care practice.

• Find a medical assistant or a nurse that you’re going to work well with

• Invite them to become a part of your practice

• Send them a Medical Assistant Roles and Responsibilities Form (see Startup DPC course on hiring another doctor)

• Invite them to your office to go through what would be expected and offer them a contract if necessary (some states are at will employment states where a contract is not necessary)

• Print federal minimum wage poster

• Print OSHA safety poster

• Get worker's compensation insurance (not required in all states if there are exactly two employees)

  • This typically costs roughly 1% of wages per year

• Create a log for employee injuries

• Update Policies and Procedures document

• Document training for OSHA, blood-borne pathogens, and HIPAA (if clinic is a covered entity)

• Download electronic copies of material safety data sheets (MSDS) for all chemicals used in the workplace

• Create employment contract (see Startup DPC course on hiring another doctor)

• Ensure accounting software can handle payroll (e.g. biweekly direct deposits, W4 form/withholding)

• Ask new employee for anticipated time off in the coming 6 months to 1 year

For our business, we started out with Gusto for payroll services, but the software missed some tax payments. It was more of a nuisance than anything that cost a lot of money or late fees. But the time spent correcting these mistakes was frustrating. Therefore, I contacted my accountant who helped me set up a new payroll system through Run Payroll, and I’ve been very happy with it.

That being said, this will likely be your first time running payroll. Therefore, it will be helpful to reach out to your accountant, who has likely helped hundreds of other businesses set up their payroll software. Take advantage of their expertise and go with what they recommend.

How to Hire a Doctor for Your Direct Primary Care Practice

Doctors who are starting direct primary care practice typically grow to a saturation point - their practice panel is full, but more patients are eager to join. If this is the case for you, check out our course on how to hire a doctor for your direct primary care practice. It will give you the tools you need to hire that second doctor for your DPC practice and the confidence to get the job done!

HOW CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT STARTING AN DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE?

If you enjoyed reading this blog post and if you want to learn more about starting and growing your direct primary care practice, look no further than our book and our courses on how to start and grow your direct primary care practice. We at Startup DPC have begun compiling some of the best content available on this blog, in our book, and in our courses.

The best place to start is to take our Direct Primary Care Business Plan course, available here. From there, you can learn how to attract new patients to your direct primary care practice and how to find the perfect location or build out the practice of your dreams.

Thanks for reading and watching, and best of luck in your direct primary care journey!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

Can My Direct Primary Care Practice Succeed in a Rural Area?

Can My Direct Primary Care Practice Succeed in a Rural Area?

Yes! There are several direct primary care doctors who have been successful in rural areas.

One example is Beth Renzulli, MD in Middletown Delaware, and according to the 2010 Census, the population of the town is 18,871. Dr. Renzulli says, “This is the view from my backyard, about 7 miles from my practice. The practice location itself I would describe as small town, but we do serve some of the surrounding rural communities. Well Primary Care, Middletown, DE.”

“This is the view from my backyard, about 7 miles from my practice. The practice location itself I would describe as small town, but we do serve some of the surrounding rural communities. Well Primary Care, Middletown, DE.” - Beth Renzulli, MD

How Many New Patients Will You Get Each Month with a Rural Direct Primary Care Practice?

Another successful direct primary care doctor in a rural community is Noemi Gamel, MD with Culver Pediatrics in Culver, Indiana. Dr. Gamel says, “I just opened in August and I am at 31 patients. So I am not sure about "successful" yet. I live in rural Indiana. 3 miles from the center of a town with a population of 1500. Marshall County has a population of 50,000. My clinic is the front part of my house. My neighbors are soybean fields, corn fields, and cows. I LOVE being a small town rural pediatrician!”

In my opinion, 31 patients in under 3 months is good growth. Netting roughly 10 patients each month puts your DPC practice at 100 patients in 10 months and 120 patients in 1 year. Typically doctors reach a break even point on their overhead at 60 patients to 100 patients, depending on their overhead of course. Usually DPC doctors can start taking a modest salary at 150 to 200 patients, and usually direct primary care doctors are full at 500 patients.

The first year is the most difficult year in that you are establishing your personal brand and identity in the community. After the first year and the first 100 patients served in your practice, you will start to see a snowball effect. This is especially true if you deliver excellent care and service.

Next up is Dr. Joel Schumacher with Schumacher Family Medicine in Plymouth Indiana. Here’s what he had to say about being a small town direct primary care doctor:

Texting a patient from my front porch (view this AM attached). what makes rural/small town DPC awesome is what makes it awesome anywhere- relationship. People are craving for a doctor that has time to know them and care. DPC allows us to return to that in a sustainable way. Many of my older patients remark how much it reminds them of their doctor as a kid 50-70 years ago.

I agree with Dr. Schumacher - people in our communities are craving a relationship with their doctor in which the doctor has time to know them and care for them.

View from Dr. Joel Schumacher’s porch. He’s a successful direct primary care doctor in a rural area.

Can a Rural Direct Primary Care Practice Succeed?

There are several other successful direct primary care doctors in rural areas. Here’s a short list:

• Dr. Deborah Sutcliffe with Red Bluff Family Medicine in Red Bluff, California. She says that she has about 400 patients in “cow and orchard country in far Northern California”

• Dr. Lara Briseno Kenny with Leeton Medical in Leeton, Missouri. She says “Define successful. I am paying my bills and happy again so I've made it! I have 92 patients and my goal is 200 to 300. The town my office is in is ~500. I love it.”

• Dr. Rob Rosborough with Township Health DPC in Silverton, Oregon. He says “3 1/2 years in a town of 10k.. Currently have over 1000 pts. Wait list is growing fast.”

• Dr. Justin Abbott with Abbott Family Medicine in Salina, Utah. He says “Abbott Family Medicine, Salina Utah population 2000, about 20k in a 60 mile radius.... between small employers and the public about 600 patients..... open 2 years, Absolutely love it!!!!”

I could go on, but I’ll stop here for the moment.

The beauty of the direct primary care model is that if you are a solo doctor starting a practice in a rural community, you only need 100 to 200 patients to be sustainable, 200 to 300 patients to earn a decent salary, and 400 to 500 patients to be very profitable.

The other nice thing about having a rural practice is that you will likely have a low rent for your office space and a low rate for your malpractice insurance. These two factors will help you have a lower overhead overall, and therefore you will more easily reach a sustainable practice and a profitable practice.

As with many things in the direct primary care world, you define your own success!

Best of luck on your journey, thank you for reading, and have a wonderful day,

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

HOW CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT STARTING AN DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE?

If you enjoyed reading this blog post and if you want to learn more about starting and growing your direct primary care practice, look no further than our book and our courses on how to start and grow your direct primary care practice. We at Startup DPC have begun compiling some of the best content available on this blog, in our book, and in our courses.

The best place to start is to take our Direct Primary Care Business Plan course, available here. From there, you can learn how to attract new patients to your direct primary care practice and how to find the perfect location or build out the practice of your dreams.

Thanks for reading and watching, and best of luck in your direct primary care journey!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

How to Hire a Second Doctor for Your Direct Primary Care Practice

Introduction

Back in April, I got a ton of insightful questions from a doctor looking to start and grow their direct primary care practice. One of their questions was about hiring a second doctor. In today’s blog post we’re going to take a deeper look on why and how to hire a second doctor for your direct primary care practice.

SHOULD I HIRE A SECOND DOCTOR FOR MY DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE?

Here’s the original question:

Last one: I see you have a partner in your practice!  Do you find this has been financially advantageous for you practice compared to a solo practice?  

There are so many tangible and intangible benefits to hiring a second doctor in your direct primary care practice. I mentioned this above, but by hiring a great physician in my practice, I’ve gained a trusted colleague and a great friend.

Drs. Paul Thomas, MD and Raquel Orlich, DO of Plum Health DPC in Detroit Michigan. When your direct primary care practice is nearing capacity, it’s time to start looking for a new doctor to join your practice. In our latest course on How To Hire Another Doctor For Your Direct Primary Care Practice, we show you how to do just that!

Having a second doctor allows me to have someone to share an interesting case with, who can help me manage my patients better by teaching me things along the way. A second doctor also allows me to take a vacation in a relatively care-free way - I don’t have to close my clinic or not be available for my patients because the second doctor can absorb those urgent concerns in my absence.

For me, I didn’t hire a second doctor to make more money, but I did hire a second doctor to build a more sustainable practice. Eventually, as my colleague fills their panel with more patients, I will earn more money, but this was never a top priority.

My top priority has always been delivering excellent care and service to the people in my community, and my practice partner joined my practice to help me achieve this goal. And, that’s why we’re successful.

HOW TO HIRE A SECOND DOCTOR FOR Your DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE

Just about every week, a direct primary care doctor reaches out to me and asks how we went about hiring new doctors to our DPC practice here in Detroit. So far, we’ve hired two doctors to join our practice at Plum Health DPC, and we have a third doctor joining us in February 2021.

Drs. Paul Thomas, MD, Jamie Qualls, DO, and Raquel Orlich, DO of Plum Health DPC. Hiring your first doctor for your direct primary care practice can be a difficult process, but it doesn’t have to be. Check out our latest course on hiring doctors to help you grow your practice, build a more sustainable practice, and serve more patients in your community.

Dr. Raquel Orlich and Dr. Jamie Qualls have helped us grow our practice and serve more members in our community. Hiring these doctors is a win-win-win. Patients in our community win because they have access to three kind, caring, and thoughtful physicians who are actively lowering the cost of health care in the community. Our doctors win because they have the opportunity to build trusting, long-term relationships with their patients, and earn a comparable salary to a doctor in the fee-for-service system while seeing fewer patients each day. Our practice wins because we’re able to become more sustainable over the long term with a capacity for more patients and therefore greater revenues.

The hiring process starts with building a successful foundation and that looks like having a successful business and brand onto which you can add more physicians. Doctors are attracted to our practice because we have a compelling mission, vision, and values, and doctors can see themselves furthering that mission. At Plum Health, we believe that healthcare should be affordable and accessible for everyone, and we all work together to achieve that goal.

If you don’t have a successful practice and if you don’t have a strong mission statement, it will be hard to attract another doctor to your practice.

Beyond attracting another doctor to your practice, you need to be able to write a contract, offer a contract, provide a reasonable salary and benefits package, purchase malpractice insurance, and go through several other steps to get this doctor from interested in your practice to working in your practice and serving patients in your community.

This can be a difficult process, so we’ve created a course to help you in your journey. The course, called How to Hire Another Doctor for Your Direct Primary Care Practice includes the following:

• Best Practices for Hiring A Second Doctor into your Direct Primary Care Practice

• The Three Signs That You're Ready to Hire Another Doctor

• Why Doctors Struggle to Find Another Doctor to Join Them

• How to Attract the Next Doctor for Your Direct Primary Care Practice

• Having This Framework is a MUST Before You Hire Your Next Doctor

• The Single Best Place to Find a New Doctor for Your Direct Primary Care Practice

• Three Other Great Places to Find Another Doctor For Your Practice

• What You Must Do Before You Offer a Contract

• How to Pay Your New Doctor: Details on Compensation

• How to Pay Your New Doctor: How to Raise the Money

• Our Downloadable Sample Contract

• Sealing the Deal - What You Must Do AFTER the Contract is Offered

• Going from a Signed Contract to the Start Date - What You Should Do Before Your Doctor Starts

• Detailed Legal Information to Cover Taxes, State Requirements, and Other Info

• Our Full Press Release for Our New Doctor That Got Us Amazing Press Coverage

If you’d like to learn more about or purchase this course, you can find it here.

Thanks for reading and learning more about this topic, and best of luck in the hiring process!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

HOW CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT STARTING AN DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE?

If you enjoyed reading this blog post and if you want to learn more about starting and growing your direct primary care practice, look no further than our book and our courses on how to start and grow your direct primary care practice. We at Startup DPC have begun compiling some of the best content available on this blog, in our book, and in our courses.

The best place to start is to take our Direct Primary Care Business Plan course, available here. From there, you can learn how to attract new patients to your direct primary care practice and how to find the perfect location or build out the practice of your dreams.

Thanks for reading and watching, and best of luck in your direct primary care journey!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

How do you grow your Direct Primary Care Practice in the First Year?

How do you Grow your Direct Primary Care Practice in the First Year?

This week I got a nice email from someone who purchased our Startup DPC book. Here’s what they had to say:

When you first started out, aside from social media, what do you think is the best way to market to people to gain patients? Which population of patients were you most successful with?

There are so many things that you can do to grow your direct primary care practice in the first year. When it comes to marketing, it’s all about delivering a consistent message through the most powerful channels at your disposal.

For me, I started by leveraging my social media channels, engaging in activities that strengthened my personal and business brand, and leveraged that success and momentum to reach out to journalists and media outlets in my community.

Once the word got out about our affordable and accessible healthcare service in Detroit, the patients followed. Social media channels typically reach a smaller audience, but they can reach a larger audience with a viral post or a post that gets shared several times in the community.

Traditional media outlets can amplify your voice and allow you to reach more people in your community. My strategy is to leverage the small wins, which can build toward bigger wins and bigger media coverage opportunities.

Steps We Took to Grow Our Direct Primary Care Practice in the First Year

Here’s what we did when we first started out to grow our direct primary care practice:

• - social media posts, at least every week

• - blogging; writing thoughtful content on our blog each week, which helped us build our SEO or Search Engine Optimization

• - networking events

• - email list serve with monthly emails, which typically echo our social media posts or blog posts

• - writing a book on DPC https://www.instagram.com/p/BqkM1etA2Q5/

• - speaking at town hall events https://www.instagram.com/p/BqI5T3XA5Hs/

• - partnering with small businesses to take care of their employees

• - reaching out to local media/reporters via email and twitter https://www.instagram.com/p/BoH31kdgrKx/

• - hitting baseballs https://www.instagram.com/p/BnttFXoFjK0/

• - kicking field goals https://www.instagram.com/p/B2u0RgJlZwH/ YES! Kicking field goals helped me build my direct primary care practice - we had patients sign up after I made this post!

• - giving a speech at my local medical college and alma mater https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt2BbdVgjd9/

• - mentoring students https://www.instagram.com/p/BqPt0POAU6t/

• - volunteering as the race doctor for a 5K/10K/Half Marathon https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv9FihBAPg_/

• - sponsoring my soccer team and volunteering with them https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz3qw1Zl_fX/

• - and more!

Frankly, you need to hustle. One of the things I write in my book is “If you’re bored, you’re doing it wrong.”

You need to take advantage of the time that you have to get the word out about your practice. You need to fill your calendar with meetings - meet with business owners, political leaders, teachers, librarians, human resource directors, and others - to teach people about your new and different business.

I teach people how to do this in my book and in my courses, so if you want to take a deeper dive and start using these powerful tools, I show you exactly how to do it in my courses.

Thanks for reading and have a wonderful day,

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC and Plum Health DPC

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HOW CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT STARTING AN DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE?

If you enjoyed reading this blog post and if you want to learn more about starting and growing your direct primary care practice, look no further than our book and our courses on how to start and grow your direct primary care practice. We at Startup DPC have begun compiling some of the best content available on this blog, in our book, and in our courses.

The best place to start is to take our Direct Primary Care Business Plan course, available here. From there, you can learn how to attract new patients to your direct primary care practice and how to find the perfect location or build out the practice of your dreams.

Thanks for reading and watching, and best of luck in your direct primary care journey!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

How to Set Up Your Lab for Direct Primary Care Practices

Drawing blood is a bit of an art form. You can typically get the hang of drawing blood after 3 tries. I learned by observing one of the seasoned medical assistants where I worked at an Urgent Care. She taught me, step-by-step, how to draw blood.

At our office, we use a blood draw caddy with all of our requisite supplies

• - butterfly needle

• - plastic tubing

• - tourniquet

• - tiger-top or serum separator tube

• - lavender tube

• - plain red top tube

• - alcohol swab

• - gauze

• - bandages

All of these supplies are free via our lab vendor, Quest Diagnostics. We simply log into Quanum (a website run by Quest) and order all of the supplies that we need.

When you first set up your account, they will mail you your Quest Box that goes on the back door or front door of your office. They’ll also send the Centrifuge to you at no cost.

Once we draw the blood, we centrifuge the Red Top Tube only. You have to wait 15 - 30 minutes before running the centrifuge. After that wait time, the tube spins for 15 minutes.

From there, we label the specimen by using a Dymo Printer. Our EMR, Atlas MD, allows us to print lab labels for Quest because the two platforms are integrated. We also print out a cover sheet for Quest with a large bar code that is easy to scan by the Quest lab pick-up professional.

We then set the samples in the box at the back of our office for pick up in the evening, usually around 5 pm or 6 pm each day.

Our lab results are then attached to the patient's chart by Quest AND faxed to our office. We have digital faxing set up, so we get an email instead of a piece of paper printed from a fax machine. Results typically start coming back around 10 am the next day, and then full results for most labs are back by 3 pm.

As for paying the bill, we have a client account with Quest and each lab that we run is “Client Billed” to our account. This gives the best price for our patients. We collect money from our patients individually and then pay one large monthly bill from Quest. The cost is typically $1,000 each month for a smaller panel of patients. We currently have 900 patients in our practices and our lab bills are typically in the $3,000 to $4,000 per month range, depending on how many labs we’re running.

I hope that this information helps you in your journey towards staring and growing a direct primary care practice. Thanks for watching and have a wonderful day.

- Dr. Paul Thomas with Plum Health DPC and Startup DPC

HOW CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT STARTING AN DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE?

If you enjoyed reading this blog post and if you want to learn more about starting and growing your direct primary care practice, look no further than our book and our courses on how to start and grow your direct primary care practice. We at Startup DPC have begun compiling some of the best content available on this blog, in our book, and in our courses.

The best place to start is to take our Direct Primary Care Business Plan course, available here. From there, you can learn how to attract new patients to your direct primary care practice and how to find the perfect location or build out the practice of your dreams.

Thanks for reading and watching, and best of luck in your direct primary care journey!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

Encouraging Doctors to Start Direct Primary Care Practices

Family medicine doctors and primary care doctors are using the Startup DPC book to start and grow their direct primary care practices. This week, we got a delightful review via Amazon from one of our readers, and they said “Very awesome book. Not only does it give great insight for dpc but it is also very encouraging. Thank you for writing this, exactly what I was looking for!”

We really appreciate this sort of feedback.

To all of my direct primary care colleagues, I love encouraging other doctors and helping them succeed - your success is our shared success for this DPC movement.

Keep pushing. Keep growing. Keep serving. Keep leading.

How Can I Learn More About Starting an Direct Primary Care Practice?

If you enjoyed reading this blog post and if you want to learn more about starting and growing your direct primary care practice, look no further than our book and our courses on how to start and grow your direct primary care practice. We at Startup DPC have begun compiling some of the best content available on this blog, in our book, and in our courses.

The best place to start is to take our Direct Primary Care Business Plan course, available here. From there, you can learn how to attract new patients to your direct primary care practice and how to find the perfect location or build out the practice of your dreams.

Thanks for reading and watching, and best of luck in your direct primary care journey!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

Startup DPC Book Helps Doctors Start and Grow Their Direct Primary Care Practices

This week, I got a very kind text message from a doctor who is on the verge of starting their direct primary care practice. They mentioned how they loved the business perspective that this book demonstrates - I think this is because doctors aren’t quite sure how to start a business because they’ve never done it before. In this book, I take you step by step through the startup process for your direct primary care practice. I give you the timeline and I break it down into simple pieces. These simple steps will come together to help you create a fulfilling, successful, and sustainable practice.

A kind review for the Startup DPC book from a doctor who is on the verge of starting and growing their direct primary care practice

HOW CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT STARTING A DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE?

If you enjoyed reading this blog post and if you want to learn more about starting and growing your direct primary care practice, look no further than our book and our courses on how to start and grow your direct primary care practice. We at Startup DPC have begun compiling some of the best content available on this blog, in our book, and in our courses.

The best place to start is to take our Direct Primary Care Business Plan course, available here. From there, you can learn how to attract new patients to your direct primary care practice and how to find the perfect location or build out the practice of your dreams.

Thanks for reading and watching, and best of luck in your direct primary care journey!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

How this Family Physician Started a Direct Primary Care Practice Straight Out of Residency

How to Start a Direct Primary Care Practice Straight Out of Residency

Many doctors want to start a direct primary care practice straight out of residency. This is a difficult task, so many doctors become intimidated by the amount of work involved and subsequently settle for a job as an employed physician with a large hospital system.

But, it doesn’t have to be this way. There is a step-by-step approach available to doctors who want to start their own direct primary care practices. First, you need to write a business plan for your direct primary care practice. This is crucial so that you understand the numbers involved, like how much it’ll cost to get set up, how much it will cost each month to run your business, how many patients you’ll need, and the average amount of money each patient needs to spend for your business to be sustainable.

Once you have your business plan in hand, you can create a timeline for that business. You will start by laying out a 12-month or 9-month or 6-month road map where you execute all of the tasks that you’ll need to complete to have a successful and thriving direct primary care practice. The great news is that you can complete many of these steps while in residency.

As a resident you can:

• write a business plan

• start building relationships with specialists

• learn as many new skills as you can that will help you deliver excellent medical care for your future patients

• design a website or work with a web designer

• design a logo or work with a logo designer

• come up with your mission, vision, and values for your new clinic

• start developing relationships with vendors like lab vendors, whole-sale medication vendors, and imaging services vendors

• start looking for locations for your new clinic

Simply put, residency is a great time to plan and dream big for your future direct primary care practice because you can start working on it now. I write about this process extensively in my book, Startup DPC: How to Start and Grow Your Direct Primary Care Practice. In the book, I dedicate an entire chapter to what to do in Residency and how to do it, so you’re primed for success in the direct primary care model after graduation.

One of the biggest things you can do during residency is to set up your own elective rotation in direct primary care. I created a Direct Primary Care Elective Rotation Curriculum and I am happy to share it with you here - just drop me an email and I will send you my direct primary care elective rotation curriculum. Please include “Send me the Direct Primary Care Curriculum” in the message for the fastest response possible.

I also dedicate an entire chapter of the book to a detailed timeline of what to do over a 6 month to 12 month period, and how to leverage that time to build up to a successful and thriving direct primary care practice.

I’m writing about this today because I was recently featured on the Health Solutions podcast with Shawn Needham. It was a great conversation and we touch on these subjects in the interview!

HOW CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT STARTING A DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE?

If you enjoyed reading this blog post and if you want to learn more about starting and growing your direct primary care practice, look no further than our book and our courses on how to start and grow your direct primary care practice. We at Startup DPC have begun compiling some of the best content available on this blog, in our book, and in our courses.

The best place to start is to take our Direct Primary Care Business Plan course, available here. From there, you can learn how to attract new patients to your direct primary care practice and how to find the perfect location or build out the practice of your dreams.

Thanks for reading and watching, and best of luck in your direct primary care journey!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

Startup DPC Book Reaches 42 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Reviews

Direct Primary Care Book ON Amazon is Highly Rated

Today, our book, Startup DPC reached 42 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews on Amazon. Here’s our latest review:

Sports medicine physician looking to make the jump to membership based practice....Dr. Thomas lays out a transparent plan on how to make this business model feasible for physicians. This is a must read.

Thanks Jasper! Glad you liked it! If you’d like to pick up a copy, do so here:

Today, we hit 42 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews for #StartupDPC https://t.co/Oj1NvcN0tj see what the buzz is all about #DirectPrimaryCare #StartupDPC #FamilyMedicine #DetroitDoctor #PTMD #PaulTMD

— Paul Thomas, MD (@PlumHealthDPC) November 2, 2020

HOW CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT STARTING A DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE?

If you enjoyed reading this blog post and if you want to learn more about starting and growing your direct primary care practice, look no further than our book and our courses on how to start and grow your direct primary care practice. We at Startup DPC have begun compiling some of the best content available on this blog, in our book, and in our courses.

The best place to start is to take our Direct Primary Care Business Plan course, available here. From there, you can learn how to attract new patients to your direct primary care practice and how to find the perfect location or build out the practice of your dreams.

Thanks for reading and watching, and best of luck in your direct primary care journey!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC