The Direct Primary Care Podcast Show

In Episode 45, Dr Roussel interviews Mr Dutch Rojas, CEO & founder of Sano Surgery and a disruptive broker of ambulatory surgical services about his work negotiating bundled payment deal. In the interview they talk about how bundling payment for surgery can lower cost, why surgery centers and hospitals are eager to accept a bundled payment, why major carriers are reluctant to negotiate bundled payments and how bundled payment can work with direct primary care to lower cost for a wrap-around plan.

In Episode 44, Dr Roussel talks with Dr Paul Thomas of Plum Health about the Hint Summit. In their discussion they review major talks from the Hint Summit of 2018, bringing together doctors and industry to catalyze healthcare reform in a way that adds value, lowers costs, improves relationships and satisfaction and has DPC at its cornerstone. Tune in as they review talks from Dr Zuban Damania (ZDoggMD), Dave Chase, Dr Garrison Bliss, Dutch Rojas, David Contorno, Dr Ryan Nuehofel, Mr Jay Keese and many more.

In Episode 43, Q&A Friday: The Amazon, Berkshire and Chase Healthcare Venture, Dr Roussel discusses the new healthcare company recently formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and Chase. In particular he elaborates on the potential of such a venture to disrupt healthcare by making the market more competitive and what this could mean for Direct Primary Care.

In Episode 42, Dr Roussel interviews Bethany Burk of the AAFP and Larry Bauer of the FMEC about the 2018 DPC Summit Pre-Conference. The pre-conference is going to happen on the day prior to the DPC Summit and is an opportunity for employers, employee benefits specialists, healthcare consultants and doctors to come together, network and learn how DPC and employer self-insurance can better pair up to lower healthcare costs and improve value for companies.

In Episode 41, Dr Roussel interviews Dr Kylie Vanaman and Bethany Burke of the AAFP about the 2018 DPC Summit. In the interview they not only discuss location and venue for the DPC Summit but also the focus of the Summit and its importance to the DPC movement.

In Episode 40, Dr Roussel interviews Dr Keith Smith, the co-founder of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, an ambulatory surgery center that offers low-cost, fixed price surgeries at dramatically reduced prices. In the interview Dr Smith talks about how the Center has been able to dramatically reduce prices by cutting out the middle-man of insurance companies and facility fees as well as how surgery centers working towards transparency and value can collaborate with direct primary care doctors.

In Episode 39, Dr Roussel elaborates on the question: how rural is too rural for DPC? In the Episode he discusses what factors have influenced and can influence the feasibility of a direct primary care practice being set up in a rural area.

In Episode 38, Dr Roussel interviews Dr Rashika Fernandopulle about Iora Health, a DPC company that specializes in providing primary care to large employer groups. A trend-setting organization, Iora provides high-quality, comprehensive primary care without any fee-for-service based contracts. In the interview they discuss how Iora is lowering healthcare costs and improving quality for employers by investing in health and wellness and prioritizing relationships.

In Episode 37, Dr Roussel interviews Mr George Claassen of the DPCFriendlyBroker.com. Mr Claassen is an insurance broker in Massachusetts who works with DPC doctors throughout the Northeast. In the interview he talks about his experience working with DPC doctors and patients to find suitable wrap-around insurance plans, what kinds of plans are best suited to pair with DPC practice membership and how doctors and patients looking for wrap-around coverage can find a broker who can help.

In Episode 36, Dr Roussel interviews employee benefits specialists Suzy Johnson and Rachel Miner of Employee Benefits Advisors of the Carolinas about their experience offering DPC as an employee benefit to clients. In particular they discuss how DPC adds value to their clients and provides them with a much needed service for affordable healthcare. In addition they discuss how they’ve been able to pair this with ‘wrap-around’ insurance plans that save the employer money and improves access to care.

In Episode 35, Dr Roussel interviews Dr Clint Flanagan of Nextera Health about Nextera’s experience providing DPC as a corporate benefit to employees of Digital Globe. Providing DPC to employees as a covered benefit yielded promising results in terms of the health of the employees and the cost of care. In the interview they discuss how the arrangement came about, how DPC saved money and improved health for the company and how this experience can be replicated with other companies and DPC practices.

In Episode 34, Dr Roussel discusses the meaning of DPC. What is Direct Primary Care? With the name’s rising popularity, it’s been used to describe practice models that to many DPC doctors seem quite far from the ideals and the spirit of what DPC is supposed to be. In the episode, Dr Roussel elaborates on some elements of a DPC that have been considered essential to a DPC practice and on the more fundamental question of what is the whole DPC venture about.

In Episode 33, Dr Roussel interviews Zach Holdsworth, CEO of Hint Health, and Paul Lacey, Senior Director of Marketing at Hint Health, about the Hint Summit. In addition to their discussion of the timing and venue of the conference, their interview covers the larger question of what extent DPC should engage the corporate world to grow while at the same time maintaining the professional independence that makes DPC so attractive and unique.

In Episode 32, Dr Roussel interviews Mr Adam Tidwell of the PartnersOne organization about bartering for healthcare. The PartnersOne is a trade organization that operates in the Baton Rouge area, with over 800 businesses and sister exchanges all throughout the Southeastern US, that facilitates a bartering economy amongst its members. In the interview they further discuss how it can be used to facilitate the exchange of goods and services, how it supports the local economy and how it can work for DPC.

In Episode 31, Dr Roussel interviews Mr Joey Dupont of the 225 Trade organization about bartering for healthcare. The 225 trade organization is a group of over 800 businesses in the Baton Rouge area, with sister exchanges all throughout the Southeastern US, that facilitates a bartering economy amongst its members. In the interview they discuss how the trade process works, what kinds of goods and services can be bought & sold on trade and how trade can work for DPC.