Leeton Medical is a Direct Physician Care (DPC) practice in Leeton, Missouri. We are ecstatic to be a part of this innovative model of care. We are able to offer both Direct Primary care (DPC) and Direct Specialty Care (DSC). DPC practices are small practices that allow for personalized care, direct access to your physician, and maintain very low overhead in order to pass savings directly to patients.

DPC practices reduce overhead in the following ways:

• Minimal staff- Many DPC Physicians run their the office alone, without managers or CEOs or multiple levels of support staff. Some DPC offices have one or two additional staff members.
• Traditional health insurance payments are not accepted- this reduces cost by eliminating the need for billing, coding, and collections departments.
• Affordable monthly membership fees are used to cover almost all services that we offer. This eliminates the need for most itemized billing, and eliminates unexpected costs and surprise bills.
• Supplies, equipment, and medications are purchased by the clinic, for wholesale prices, allowing many procedures to be performed or medications administered or dispensed in the office at very steep discounts.

The foundation of a DPC practice is to develop a trusting relationship between the patient and physician, rather than a healthcare corporation or business. Eliminating the need to cater to insurance companies and large medical group bureaucracies allows a physician to focus on what is best for YOUR health and situation. Since DPC practices accept significantly fewer patients (usually less than 500 in total as compared to thousands in a traditional practice), your physician can also devote more time and energy to getting to know you and keeping up with your individual healthcare needs. Imagine if you could reach your physician by their personal cell phone, with a conce... DPC restores the open communication that is so critical for high quality and safe medical care.

Leeton Medical offers traditional DPC benefits:

• Price transparency- very few services will require additional fees, but those costs are kept exceedingly low and are plainly listed upfront. You should never receive an unexpected bill from us.
• Reduced cost medications, imaging (x-rays, CT scans, MRIs) and labs. DPC offices negotiate lower upfront costs for services that cannot be provided in the office. Many of these services may be available at a lower cost than your insurance COPAY for the same service in a traditional office.
• In-office procedures including skin biopsies, cryotherapy for warts and pre-cancerous lesions, skin tag removal, laceration repairs, joint injections and more. Any additional fees are essentially only the wholesale price for the medications used or administered for the procedure (numbing medications, etc)
• Unlimited, extended, in-office visits. Standard visits are 30-60minutes long.
• Direct access to your personal physician on their cell phone for urgent matters

We are excited to be on this journey and to be able to provide patients with excellent care at affordable prices, regardless of insurance status. Please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have, or to set up a phone or in-person meet-and-greet to determine how this model of care may benefit you and your health and medical needs!

Still curious about Direct Primary Care? Wondering if DPC is right for you and your family?

Check out these links for more information:

• DPC Frontier
• DP Care.org
• Business Insider Article 1
• Business Insider Article 2
• AARP.org

Please contact us if you have more questions or want to find out more about how DPC can improve your healthcare experience. Schedule a free meet-and-greet time to determine if Leeton Medical is right for you!