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Birmingham Direct Primary Care helps business owners compete for the best labor by offering a comprehensive, affordable, primary care benefits packages. For small employers currently providing insurance, we can help you save 30-60%. And for employers currently unable to provide coverage, you’ll be shocked by the economics of our direct primary care model.
Benefits Your Employees Want. Benefits Your Business Can Afford
Healthcare Employees Can Actually Use
Your employees want care that fits their lives: convenient appointments, time to ask questions, and a doctor who knows them. Birmingham DPC makes primary care more accessible through a membership built around the patient-doctor relationship. From managing ongoing conditions to getting help when an illness interrupts the workweek, employees have a dependable place to turn.
A Practical Option for Small Businesses
Offering meaningful healthcare benefits can feel out of reach when you do not have a large corporation’s budget or purchasing power. Birmingham DPC gives your business a straightforward way to support employee health through a predictable membership cost. You can invest in accessible primary care while keeping your benefits budget easier to plan.
Employee Benefits
- No rush, personalized primary care with an accessible and available physician that your employees have never experienced before.
- Convenient access to physician via call, text, email or video chat.
- Same day or next day appointments for urgent care visits.
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Longer face time with physician.
- Unlimited visits with no copays.
- No need to miss work for doctor's appointment if it can be handled via above modalities.
- Greatly discounted in-house medications and labs (see pricing from main menu for examples)
Employer Benefits
- Provide top-notch primary care for your employees at very affordable rates.
- Save huge healthcare $$.
- Higher employee satisfaction and retention.
- One fixed monthly rate without hidden fees.
- Overall lower healthcare claims.
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Healthier employees means:
- Fewer missed work days.
- Higher productivity.
- Lower healthcare and worker’s comp claims.
- Lower ED visits and hospitalizations.
Are You a Good Fit for Employer DPC?
Birmingham DPC works with companies with fewer than five employees to businesses with more than 100, making accessible primary care a benefit employers of many sizes can offer.
1. Restaurants and Hospitality Businesses
Restaurant, coffee shop, and hotel employees often work schedules that make traditional appointments difficult. Employer DPC gives your team a dependable primary care resource for everyday illnesses, preventive care, and ongoing health concerns. It is a practical way to support the people who keep your business running.
2. Construction and Skilled Trades Companies
Electricians, plumbers, contractors, and HVAC technicians rely on their health to perform demanding work. Accessible primary care can help employees address everyday health concerns and manage conditions such as high blood pressure or diabetes. DPC supports their routine healthcare needs alongside any required occupational health services and workers’ compensation coverage.
3. Professional Services Firms
Accounting firms, law offices, marketing agencies, and other professional businesses compete for dependable, talented employees. Offering DPC adds a personal, useful benefit to your compensation package. Convenient access to a doctor can also make it easier for busy employees to get care around client meetings and project deadlines.
4. Retail Shops and Local Service Businesses
Boutiques, salons, auto repair shops, and cleaning companies may have small teams and limited benefits budgets. Employer DPC provides a predictable membership cost that makes budgeting for primary care more straightforward. It gives business owners a way to offer meaningful health support as their companies grow.
5. Childcare Centers and Private Schools
Teachers and childcare professionals spend their days caring for others, often with frequent exposure to common illnesses. Having a trusted primary care doctor gives them somewhere to turn when symptoms arise or ongoing health needs require attention. Employer DPC helps you care for the employees your students and families depend on.
FAQs
Direct Primary Care is a model that removes the insurance between the physician and the patient as it was in the old days. This allows better, personalized care for the patient by allowing physician to focus on the patient and not on charts and insurance codes. Direct primary care physicians usually have a panel of 600-800 patients instead of several thousands. Patients will have longer visits with their doctor and have same or next day appointments as well as 24/7 access to their doctor via phone, text or email for medical necessities. All this at a low cost of a monthly cell phone bill. What’s more is that patients will be able to get their medications and labs at greatly reduced prices. Because we dispense medication and draw blood in our office (in addition to no waiting in the waiting room), you save the one thing more valuable than money: time! No more standing in long lines at the pharmacy, or in waiting rooms at the clinic or the lab. As everything is transparent, there will be no hassles of dealing with insurance.
The scope and access of what we offer has many powerful results:
- Healthier employees.
- Higher employee satisfaction.
- Higher productivity.
- Fewer missed work days.
- Overall lower healthcare claims and workers’ comp claims.
- Lower specialist visits.
- Lower urgent care and ER visits.
- Lower hospitalization rates.
- Savings to employer on cost of healthcare coverage up to 30%-60%.
We do encourage all of our members to maintain at least a catastrophic high deductible insurance plan or a health cost sharing plan, as we are not insurance. HOWEVER, by enrolling their employees in Birmingham Direct Primary Care and setting up a level-funded insurance plan around it, a small business can save up to 30%-60% on the cost of the health insurance they provide. We would be happy to get you in touch with an experienced health benefit advisor who can assist you with this.
We provide wholesales discount prices on prescriptions and labs. You will be amazed at how much you will save just from this feature alone. We also dispense your medications to you in-house, allowing our clinic to be your one stop shop for medical care and medications. No more lines in the pharmacy. Most labs are drawn in clinic and send out daily to the lab. All lab costs are at face value and will be available to you up front to ensure transparency. You will be informed of your results as soon as they are available.
We have contracted with select vendors to provide our members with greatly reduced rates, or you can choose to use your insurance.
We believe that we can handle most of your needs within our full-spectrum family medicine practice. However, when needed we will provide the coordination of care with specialists as part of your membership benefit. We recommend your employees to still have insurance or membership in medical sharing community to cover specialist visits or other services not provided by our clinic.
In many cases, patients don’t need to visit our office. Without insurance mandating visits for payment, patients can often interface with Dr. Sahinoglu via phone, text message, email, or video conference.
Employer Testimonials
Finally, Healthcare Options That work for small businesses
Dr. Efe built Birmingham DPC to help our community access personal, dependable primary care. That includes helping local business owners care for the employees who make their businesses possible.
Let’s have a conversation about offering DPC to your employees. We’ll discuss your team’s needs, answer your questions, and explore how membership can fit your business and budget.
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