In this episode, Dr. Nisha Mehta is joined by Dr. Richard Berry, founder of Maple Health Direct Primary Care, to discuss the realities of building and scaling a successful direct primary care practice, as well as the long term future of primary care as models that avoid insurance gain momentum in the primary care space.
They discuss:
- How he grew his direct primary care practice from a solo operation into a multi-clinician, multi-location business, and what factors have made his practice so successful
- How membership pricing, clinician preferences, and differences between physician and PA services can help practices attract patients with varying needs and budgets
- The most common myths about the DPC model amongst the physician community, and which ones he think have merit and those that are false
- His advice for physicians looking to dip their toes into DPC as well as for physicians thinking about taking the next steps towards scale, including the importance of protecting the work-life balance that attracted physicians to the model in the first place
- How the growing popularity of the DPC model could create challenges for access to care, and what primary care may look like in a decade
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