How Primary Care Service Is Handling Pandemic?

During this pandemic, there is a bridging crisis in primary care. Many business owners have come up with new ideas for primary care that are to be known as physician dispensing companies. Here at PD-RX, we are working with 14K clinicians and reach 7 million patients in the United States. Our independent primary care practices manage an increase of 60% in patient messages. It's good because patients can get help virtually safely. This is bad because almost nothing is paid for these points of contact.

Doctors are paid only to answer these messages in the category "Questions about my health." And only 1⁄3 of the refund for an ordinary visit. These messages, as you can see, constitute less than a quarter of what is currently being done in practice.

Patient phone calls are even harder. For a 20 minute call with a patient, a primary care physician gets only $12. Most of them don't bother to even chart or pay for it. We saw a 30% increase in telephone calls and this is probably very poorly reported.

Simultaneously, patient volumes have fallen 25% per week for regular appointments and preventive care. These doctors provide their patients, many of them chronically ill, with a key service which keeps their practices floating. This is the core service delivered by physician dispensing companies.

We saw primary care doctors rush to help even with the financial future that was so uncertain. There are at least six DPCs who are now back to help care non-member patients in this disease outbreak with the absence of an insurance for membership practices.

These independent primary care practices put their own financial and health prospects to the right exercise during COVID-19 for their patients. You respond to telephone calls, visit patients and take care of elderly people and the highest risk.

Find a way to help doctors get paid for their care and change as a virtual practice to stay on the ground. There will be more to come here. PD-RX Pharmaceuticals team works hard to help our primary care community get through and we learn more on a daily basis.

**Disclaimer: The information on this page is not intended to be a doctor's advice, nor does it create any form of patient-doctor relationship.