About Our Office
Hickory Medical Direct Primary Care opened its downtown location in 2016 and was a central part of the revitalization of West Columbus Avenue in downtown Bellefontaine. The office was in the King Building until 2024 when we opened our newly renovated office at 1125 Rush Avenue. The new location has more accessible parking and shares space with Affiliated Dermatology (Dublin, Ohio) and Premier Allergy and Asthma (Dublin, Ohio).
About Direct Primary Care (DPC)
The goal of direct primary care is to remove many of the hassles and costs that come when health insurance is involved in health care decisions. Insurance only makes sense for expensive and unpredictable costs. If car insurance covered gasoline, windshield wipers, and tires, it would be incredibly expensive, in part because people would be less careful with how they used these things, but also because everyone would require documentation to prove what happened at every step. Healthcare is the same way. Primary care – that is, everything around the provider-patient relationship including consultation for illness, managing of chronic disease, and access to proper and careful assessment of medications – can be done much more efficiently outside of insurance coverage.
Websites where you can read more about Direct Primary Care:
Direct Primary Care Coalition
Heritage Foundation DPC Report
DPC Resources
DPC Frontier
http://www.dpcfrontier.com
Liberator Online
More Physicians Choose to Offer Direct Primary Care in the Age of Obamacare
National Public Radio
Would Paying Your Doctor Cash Up Front Get You Better Care?
The Heartland Institute
Patients Save as Docs Combine Direct Primary Care with Cost Sharing
The Heritage Foundation
Backgrounder #2939 on Health Care
The New York Times
More Care Up Front for $54 a Month
The Ohio Family Physician
A Growing Payment Model Fit for a Pandemic and Beyon
Point Health
Direct primary care explained and four reasons you need it