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General Surgeon Dr. Jillian Ciocchetii left her very comfortable hospital-employed job of 15 years to venture into Direct Care Surgery. She gives us insight about how she connects with self-funded plans that funnel patients to her and she performs the surgeries at a Direct Care friendly facility.

This is affordable surgery, not cheap surgery.

Find her at https://surgerydenver.com

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Concierge medicine is not Direct Care, there's a subtly and I explain that further on this episode.

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Dr. Baumgaertel is an internal medicine physician with over 30 years of experience. She stepped away from clinical care and into the virtual medical advocacy arena, founding myMDadvocate in early 2022. She started her medical journey in concierge medicine and then eventually into nonclinical care as an advocate for patients, filling in the gap in healthcare.

myMDadvocate is a virtual medical consultation & advocacy service for patients in Washington state.

Connect with her at https://www.mymdadvocate.com/
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Our second ENT guest Dr. Ashley Agan gives us a fresh look into her Direct Specialty Care practice located in Dallas, TX that opened last spring in 2024. She discusses working as locum as she builds up her practice and much more.

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If you're not getting the right patients to pay attention, this tutorial will help. It's important to lead with VALUE, not with "Direct Care." See what I mean in this episode.

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Happy holidays! I hope you find some magic this season while I share with you the magic of Direct Care.

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Hey hey I got your question from that text button right up there! Someone asked "Do you have any advice on how to market to patients as direct care? As soon as they find out we don't take insurance they don't want to be scheduled."

I get it, people want to use their insurance, so listen to my answer to this very common question.

1. Align yourself with cash pay practices
2. Promote your services where there are people who don't have insurance (think of our Canadian friends, farm workers, small business owners, etc)
3. Offer a free or low priced initial consultation
4. Anchor on your noncovered services if you got them

And keep going!

P.S. Have a safe and wonderful holiday break this winter

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From being terminated to starting his hybrid dermatology practice just one year ago, Dr. Lewellis shares his journey about starting his telederm practice and now seeing patients in the office or even in their home. He is showing us you can do whatever you want with your medical degree as a direct specialty care doctor.


Bio: Stephen Lewellis, MD, PhD, FAAD is a NYU and Stanford trained board certified dermatologist. He is the founder and owner of Above & Beyond Dermatology, an independent integrative dermatology center in central Wisconsin. He also serves as host of The Direct Care Derm podcast, Medical Director of Skinnovations Medical Aesthetics, Executive Director of Dermatology at FirstHx, Founding Medical Partner at Doctorpedia, Dermatology Advisor at Taxa Technologies, and independent consultant to numerous companies in the healthcare sector. He lives in Wausau, WI with his wife and two young children.

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