Frequently Asked Questions
What is Direct Primary Care?
Direct Primary Care (DPC) is an alternative payment and practice model for primary care services. The focus of a DPC practice is putting the personal relationship back into patient care which includes access to your actual physician. DPC physicians offer services for a flat monthly rate instead of a traditional fee for service arrangement. DPC physicians do not file insurance claims. Instead, DPC physicians work directly with the patient instead of the insurance corporations to offer increased access to care, faster scheduling, more time with your physician, and better and more cost effective options for medications, labs, imaging studies, and more.
Is Direct Primary Care Insurance?
Direct Primary Care is not and is not intended to be “insurance.” Membership to a Direct Primary Care practice has no impact on the benefits you receive through your insurance plan.
What is the cost of a Direct Primary Care membership?
Membership Fee: $125 per month
Visit Fee: $25 per encounter. No cap on the number of encounters.
Enrollment Fee (one time): $75
Additional savings are available including couples rates and cash/check discounts.
What is Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine?
Osteopathic physicians understand that every individual expresses health and disease differently. The absence of disease does not imply the presence of health. Osteopathic physicians are trained to recognize changes in body structure that alters function and contributes to disease. Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine is the application of osteopathic philosophy, structural diagnosis, and use of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) in the diagnosis and management of an individual patient. OMT is the therapeutic application of manually guided forces by an osteopathic physician to improve physiological function.
Do you accept referrals for Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment?
Yes. A patient that already has a primary care physician but desires to seek osteopathic manipulative treatment may be seen as a referral. A patient is encouraged to contact the office and relevant records (if available) related to a patient’s care will be requested from the primary care physician and/or other specialists. Dr. West works in consultation with a patient’s primary care physician in the overall care of that patient.
Patient’s seeking a referral for osteopathic manipulative treatment are encouraged to contact our office. We prioritize care for our direct primary care member patients and availability for osteopathic manipulative treatment referrals may be limited.
Do you bill insurance for Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment?
We do not partner with any insurance plan and therefore do not bill a patient’s insurance for these services.
What are the similarities and differences between a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO), Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Doctor of Chiropractic (DC)?
What is Regenerative Medicine?
Regenerative medicine seeks to replace tissue or organs that have been damaged by age, disease, trauma, or congenital issues, vs. the current clinical strategy that focuses primarily on treating the symptoms.
What Regenerative Medicine Services do you currently offer?
We currently offer platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy, platelet-rich fibrin therapy, platelet-rich plasma fascial and extracorporal shockwave therapy.
Do you bill insurance for Regenerative Medicine services?
Regenerative Medicine services are elective medical services. We do not partner with any insurance plan and therefore do not bill a patient’s insurance for these services.
What is the cost of Regenerative Medicine services?
Please contact our office for pricing.
What is Aesthetic Medicine?
Aesthetic Medicine comprises of medical procedures aimed at improving the physical appearance and satisfaction of the patient, using non-invasive or minimally invasive cosmetic procedures. Our nurse and physician are both trained and certified through the American Academy of Facial Esthetics (AAFE) and currently offer botulinum toxin, dermal fillers, microneedling and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) facials.
Do you bill insurance for Aesthetic Medicine services?
Aesthetic Medicine services are elective medical services. We do not partner with any insurance plan and therefore do not bill a patient’s insurance for these services.
What is the cost of Aesthetic Medicine services?
Please contact our office for pricing.
Do you accept referrals for the Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program?
No. At this time we will only consider a referral, where medically appropriate, to the Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program for our direct primary care member patients.
What are the qualifying medical conditions for medical marijuana use in the State of Ohio?
AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, cachexia, cancer, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, Crohn’s disease, epilepsy or another seizure disorder, fibromyalgia, glaucoma, hepatitis C, Huntington’s disease, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple sclerosis, pain that is either chronic and severe or intractable, Parkinson’s disease, positive status for HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), post-traumatic stress disorder, sickle cell anemia, Spasticity, spinal cord disease or injury, terminal illness, Tourette syndrome, traumatic brain injury, and ulcerative colitis.
Do you offer intravenous (IV) therapy in the office?
Yes. Our office offers normal saline intravenous (IV) therapy for our direct primary care member patients where medically appropriate.