How primary care providers are innovating in healthcare through the direct primary care practice model

As I discuss in the book Better Outcomes: A Guide to Humanizing Healthcare, many healthcare providers reach the point of burnout working in today’s healthcare system. High volume organizations, based on a fee for service revenue model push clinicians to see an ever-increasing number of patients each day. This leads to less direct, or face to face, time between clinicians and patients. It also means that many of our clinics and health systems fall into a rut of “slapping bandaids” on problems, rather than addressing root causes. If you don’t have enough time to dig deep, you simply can’t get to the heart of some issues like chronic disease management, healthy lifestyle habits, etc. That has driven some doctors to consider a Direct Primary Care practice model.

In this episode, I sit with Chris Habig from Freedom Healthworks, a company who’s mission is to help start as many Direct Primary Care Practice’s as possible across the US. He and I have a conversation about the Direct Primary Care practice model, its benefits, and differences between that model and the current fee for service model most practices (and insurance companies) use. 

 

What we cover in this Episode:

• The problem with incentives in the current healthcare reimbursement models
  
• Managing a healthcare practice under the direct primary care model
  
• Some of the challenges with Recruiting team members and preventing burnout in the fee for service healthcare model
  
• Defining Direct Primary Care 
  
• The importance of building relationships in healthcare
  
• Taking a biopsychosocial approach to healthcare
  
• Achieving Better Outcomes through empowering clinicians to “cut the cord” 
  

 

We’re starting to create videos of certain podcast episodes, including this episode, which can find on the YouTube Channel.

 

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If you run a clinic or practice and are looking to develop a strategy that leverages best practices, new technology, and marketing/messaging in a way that returns the focus of healthcare to people, please reach out. We’d love to talk with you about how Rehab U Practice Solutions can help your clinic bring in more clients, retain them throughout their course of care, and create uniquely impactful experiences.

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Rafael E. Salazar II, MHS, OTR/L (Rafi) is the Principal Owner of Rehab U Practice Solutions and the host of The Better Outcomes Show and the author of Better Outcomes: A Guide to Humanizing Healthcare. His career trajectory includes 10+ years of experience in healthcare management, clinical operations, programmatic development, marketing & business development. He even spent some time as an Assistant Professor in a Graduate Program of Occupational Therapy and has served on numerous boards and regulatory committees. He has worked on projects ranging from patient engagement initiatives to marketing communication campaigns to a multi million dollar project assisting the State of Georgia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities transition individuals out of state institutions to community residences. His work on Telehealth has been discussed in Forbes.

Today, Rafi helps innovative healthcare companies like technology startups, platforms, and SaaS companies develop effective positioning strategy and business development plans through his consulting work. He also leverages his experience as a professor and academic to speak and train on the topics around humanizing the healthcare experience. In addition, Rafi also owns and operates ProActive Rehabilitation & Wellness, a multidisciplinary outpatient clinic treating patients with musculoskeletal pain.

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IfIf you are an innovative healthcare company looking to humanize healthcare through direct service delivery, technology, a device, or software, then reach out. We’d love to talk with you about how Rehab U Practice Solutions can help.

What we can help you do:

✅ Clarify your product, service, or organization’s positioning…

✅ Identify what is most valuable and least valuable to your targeted healthcare stakeholder…

✅ Develop a Market Penetration Roadmap to align your company’s value proposition with your targeted healthcare stakeholder…

We help you not only craft your positioning strategy, we help you identify your highest value offer for your target audience, align that value with your market, and help you develop a business development system that leverages insights from market data & industry-specific resources to enable your business development team to effectively drive business for your organization. 

In short, we help your whole organization become focused on the most important thing in healthcare: people – the people who work for your organization, and the people who your organization treats or serves.

 

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