Start with the question in front of you.
Clear guides and tools for evaluating, launching, operating, and growing an independent Direct Primary Care practice.
Four starting points
Choose a path
Begin where you are.
01
Understand the model
Direct Primary Care, membership mechanics, and the difference from insurance and concierge care.
02
Plan a practice
Timeline, startup costs, financing, launch decisions, and opening-day preparation.
03
Run the operation
Staffing, workflows, membership administration, reporting, and responsibility boundaries.
04
Grow deliberately
Positioning, local discovery, referrals, employers, follow-up, retention, and capacity.
Useful now
Tools for the next decision.
Use the assessment or guide that matches the work immediately in front of you.
Is DPC Right for You?
A short readiness assessment for physicians considering independence.
Practice Audit
Review an existing practice across operations, finances, and patient experience.
Office Checklist
A practical list for preparing a patient-ready office.
Startup Cost Guide
Planning scenarios for space, equipment, staffing, and runway.
Documented practices
Learn from measured results.
Empower Wellness
193 patients enrolled in 22 months, with documented conversion and marketing-return figures.
Direct Rheumatology
A specialty model with documented acquisition, enrollment, revenue, and retention figures.
Rapid-Scale DPC Launch
A multi-provider launch with documented opening enrollment and seven-month growth figures.
Latest thinking
Recent articles.
DPC Telehealth: A Compliance and Workflow Decision Framework
Define where, when, and how virtual care fits your practice before selecting technology.
DPC Compliance Before Launch: The Decisions to Confirm
A physician-focused framework for confirming state law, Medicare status, privacy duties, and malpractice coverage before opening a DPC practice.
DPC Business Plan: A Working Template for Physicians
Build a decision-ready DPC business plan from local evidence, explicit operating assumptions, and formulas you can update as quotes and enrollment data change.
Practical workbook
Build 30 days of physician-led content.
Turn the questions patients and employers already ask into useful material with a repeatable cadence that can be adapted to the physician's voice and market.
Need a clearer next step?
A practice consultation can help connect the model, economics, timing, and operating decisions.