ideal health care benefits

From diabetes to hypertension to depression to urinary tract infections to colds to the vast majority of primary care conditions.

Of course, we prescribe regular prescription medications.  We also will suggest non-prescription options where there is reasonable scientific evidence.

We do not prescribe narcotics (opiates), stimulants (ADD meds), valium-like medications (benzodiazepines), or similar problematic medications except in rare circumstances.  This is clearly specified in the "Patient Agreement" that you will sign when you become a member.  We may prescribe these for a very short period of time as necessary to get through the immediate pain of a fracture, or something similar, but with the clear understanding it will be minimal and very temporary.

All current benefits listed above are included in the basic monthly fee.  This also includes stitches or laceration care that we are able to do in-office, in-office urinalysis, and basic procedures as we add them.

Essentially, the things we can't do in the office will incur additional fees at the great discounts we get for our members.  These fees are conveniently added to the members monthly account charges (or you can have it billed to your insurance at insurance rates).  Don't get your card out...we make it just work.
Examples would include things like: blood work, x-ray, MRI, CT scan.

Specialists, hospital services, other providers, etc all provide their own services and charge their own fees apart from us.

You can have your blood drawn at any Quest Diagnostics blood draw location of your choice for great discounts and the charges will be added directly to your account (at massive discount typically).  Or you may wish to have your blood drawn at the facility of your choice if you want to have it run through your insurance.  Specialty labs that are more Integrative Medicine oriented will require special directions.

We trust you will find our service night and day superior to any typical medical service.  That said, we want to be clear on some healthy boundaries (pun intended):

We can provide the best service at an affordable price to all members by having services be discreet and specific.  Basically, this just means we can't do daily running conversations for weeks on end about miniscule matters (only applies to a very rare few).  Let's save up all the questions and get them all answered in one encounter -- in-office, video, or phone call.  Never hesitate to call us with urgent matters or ask important questions that arise.  We don't limit care within the scope of normal living (including the rough spots) and are always looking for the most effective ways of serving our members.

While we often go well beyond what typical primary care does in terms of offering more options, an occasional complex condition that may benefit from a more in depth whole spectrum approach requiring hours of research and extra work may be beyond the scope of this primary care based service.  We would seek to offer you options for additional services.

Patients who just want ever increasing numbers of pills and procedures and are not willing to consider addressing lifestyle causes of disease (food, smoking, stress, etc) will be better served by more typical pill and procedure based healthcare.  We love you.  We want the best for you.  We're just not a good fit for you.  Let us know when you want to really live.

We will always seek to offer service levels or additional services that best make health care work for our members in the real world.  Let us know your needs!