With expected steep cuts to Medicaid, there’s a growing movement in Maine of primary care providers skipping insurance ...

MAINE, USA — After about 15 years in different health care settings, Brad Tuttle and his wife, Alley Tuttle, decided to leave ...

To meet this need in a simple, affordable way, more doctors are starting their own practices using a Direct Primary Care model. In Maine, these independent doctors, often referred to as DPCs ...

There are at least 27 direct primary care practices in Maine, including a few that are hybrid — insurance is billed in addition to the monthly fee, according to DPC Frontier, a website that maps ...

Direct primary care (DPC), also known as “retainer medicine,” is one health care provider model that has become increasingly popular for doctors and patients alike and could serve to revitalize the ...

Taro Health’s marquee insurance benefit includes $0 membership access to direct primary care physicians, who build a stronger relationship with their patients by offering longer visits ...

Recruitment of current physicians in training, however, can play a key role in helping to address the state's provider shortage. After practicing primary care internal medicine for more than 35 ...

Direct primary care backers hope COVID-19 entices docs to alternate payment model ... Maine practice to DPC in 2014, after 11 years in fee for service, and now has about 650 members.

Dr. Kelsey McDonald leased 2,500 square feet in a 14,000-square-foot medical office building at 144 U.S. Route 1 in Scarborough to introduce her practice, Coastline Direct Primary Care.

The Maine Legislature could vote in 2017 on whether to exempt direct primary care (DPC) practices from health insurance regulations. DPC arrangements are private agreements in which patients pay ...