health-care – DPC Referee

Actuarially adjusted study makes clear that Nextera’s DPC clinic was a flop.

Relying on deeply flawed studies and strained interpretations, as set out here and elsewhere, Nextera and Paladina (now part of Everside) still brag that their respective “school district” and “county government” direct primary care option programs for employer heatlh care plans produce huge overall health care cost savings. 2024 saw publication of two university doctoralContinue reading “Actuarially adjusted study makes clear that Nextera’s DPC clinic was a flop.”

That the Union County DPC experiment was a flop is clear from a careful reading of its two actuarial studies, including the one claimed to vindicate DPC.

This post in a three minute nutshell Union County created a direct primary care option for its health insured employees. There were two particularly salient features: the monthly DPC fees were extravagant; and the county sweetened the DPC option with cost-sharing reductions (CSR) for downstream care. Despite CSR, the DPC clinic was able to reduceContinue reading “That the Union County DPC experiment was a flop is clear from a careful reading of its two actuarial studies, including the one claimed to vindicate DPC.”