FOR PATIENTS: How to Choose Your Healthcare

A step-by-step decision guide for choosing coverage, for any age and any diagnosis. Five pages, ten minutes, free, from a family doctor.

Full description:

Insurance, Direct Primary Care, a health share, or paying cash. Most people never get a plain explanation of how those fit together, so they guess, or they keep whatever they had last year. This guide walks you through the decision the way a family doctor would, in about ten minutes.

It covers:

• The three questions to ask first: what you need from healthcare, who your primary care doctor will be, and how you’ll get medications, labs and imaging
• Step 1: which of five situations you’re in, from a new baby to an older adult, and what each one actually needs
• Step 2: whether specialty care, a diagnosis, a surgery or an expensive medication changes the answer
• Step 3: whether you qualify for a catastrophic plan, and when that’s a good thing
• Step 4: the four coverage paths, and who each one is for
• Ten final questions to confirm you chose right and stay compliant with your state and your employer

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From Caring Directly, the short show for patients from My DPC Story, by Dr. Maryal Concepcion, a family physician. General information, not personal medical, insurance, legal or tax advice. The choice is yours; this guide helps you make it with your eyes open.

Want the three-minute version first? Take the quiz “Do I even need health insurance?” at caringdirectly.com.