Please Bother Me! That’s What I’m Here For
Dr. Jay Moore Dr. Jay Moore

Please Bother Me! That’s What I’m Here For

Twice in the last two weeks, I’ve talked with patients who have had urgent issues pop up after-hours. Both patients decided to head to an urgent care clinic and got good treatment, though it was expensive. One of them said “I didn’t want to bother you.”

And that made me stop and think — how do my patients know when to go to the emergency room, and when to use an urgent care center? And when should they call me instead?

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Don’t Go to Urgent Care Again
Dr. Jay Moore Dr. Jay Moore

Don’t Go to Urgent Care Again

We deserve to go back to a time when you could call your doctor when you got sick or hurt, and that doctor also knew about your medical history and could treat you as a whole patient. If you are my patient, I will rarely tell you to go to urgent care. I want you to call me first, and we will talk about what you might need.

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Does DPC Save money?
Dr. Jay Moore Dr. Jay Moore

Does DPC Save money?

Sometimes people balk at the idea of a subscription fee to a DPC doctor. You still need to have health insurance to cover emergency and catastrophic care (although some people opt out of this). So this is just more money spent, right? But there are financial savings, too.

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Why I Decided on a DPC Practice
Dr. Jay Moore Dr. Jay Moore

Why I Decided on a DPC Practice

My doctor is awesome. But he’s trapped in a system that he can’t control. He has thousands of patients under his care and he is forced to see 20 or 30 patients every day. And even as hard as he works, I had to wait six months to see him. There’s gotta be a better way, right?

Direct Primary Care is the better way.

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What is Direct Primary Care?
Dr. Jay Moore Dr. Jay Moore

What is Direct Primary Care?

Direct Primary Care (or DPC or short) is a really simple concept. It’s a primary care relationship between the doctor and the patient without anyone in the middle to affect care. But what does that mean?

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Open Enrollment 2024
Dr. Jay Moore Dr. Jay Moore

Open Enrollment 2024

It’s October, which means Open Enrollment for most of you! It’s that time of year when you look at all the health insurance options for your family and stress out over which one to pick. Let me give you some thoughts about this and offer my advice. (I’m not an insurance broker! Just a doctor with insurance and admin experience… so please keep that in mind!)

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