Most of the direct specialty care myths that keep good specialists stuck in insurance are not facts at all, they are inherited fears. If you are burned out, tired of doing more each year for less, and quietly wondering whether there is another way to practice, the first thing standing between you and that other […]
When physicians hear “direct care,” many still picture a family doctor with a monthly membership. That is direct primary care, and it is wonderful, but it is not the whole story. The same model works for specialists, and increasingly, for nearly every specialty. Quick answer: Direct care is not only for family medicine. The same […]
I am here to tell you it is possible, and that I am not alone. There are specialists across this country quietly running practices like mine. Hidden gems, really, doctors who removed the middlemen and reconnected with the people they trained to help. We are not waiting for the system to fix itself. We are […]
She walked in with a price quote for surgery. It came from a large legacy health system, the kind of number that lands with the weight of inevitability behind it. Then a specialist practicing direct specialty care looked again, and her whole path changed. Dr. Steven Borene and his partner at Renovo Health brought in […]