Direct Primary Care Cost Savings
$149 a month, with no copays and no surprise bills. Here is what that adds up to for your budget.
Add up a full year of primary care and the total tends to land higher than anyone expects. Copays. Trips to urgent care. Lab bills that show up on their own schedule. Follow-up visits, each one carrying a charge of its own. Membership at Vancouver Direct Primary Care in Portland trades that whole pile for a single number you already know.
The Costs $149 a Month Replaces
What Would This Cost in My Situation?
Honestly, it depends on your starting point. Below are three scenarios we run into regularly at VDPC in Portland, along with how the numbers usually work out.
Working for yourself, or uninsured
With no coverage behind you, one urgent care visit usually lands somewhere in the $250 to $600 range before labs enter the picture. Stack up a sick visit, a follow-up, and one basic blood panel, and the year clears $700 without much effort. A VDPC membership absorbs all of it for $149 a month, charges nothing per visit, and adds deeply reduced lab pricing besides.
On a high-deductible plan
Once your deductible sits at $3,000 or more, you are paying full freight for routine visits right up until you reach it. A VDPC membership moves the bulk of your primary care outside the insurance system altogether. Your deductible then stays where it belongs, held back for the situations that genuinely call for it, such as a specialist or a hospital stay.
Living with a chronic condition
Regular appointments for blood pressure, diabetes, or a thyroid condition pile up in a hurry when every one of them gets billed. Your VDPC membership already covers the follow-ups, the medication reviews, and the check-ins in between. How often you come in becomes a clinical question again instead of a budget one.
Everything Your Membership Covers
Everything listed below arrives with your $149 monthly membership, and not one item on it carries an extra charge per visit or per service.
- Primary care visits, as many as you need
- Full hour appointments, long enough to actually talk/li>
- Message Ed directly
- Visits by phone or by video
- Annual wellness exams
- Chronic disease management
- Medication management and refills
- Steeply discounted lab pricing
- No per-visit charges, no copays
- Cancel any time with a text or DM