The Focus Has Returned to Where It Belongs: You.

Direct Primary Care is a membership-based approach to primary care that creates a direct relationship between you and your physician.

Instead of billing insurance for routine primary care, you pay a predictable monthly membership fee. This allows us to spend more time with you, offer easier access to care, and focus on your health without many of the restrictions of the traditional insurance-based model.

Laboratory testing, imaging, and prescriptions, are separate from your membership.

However, we do offer steeply discounted laboratory services as well as many wholesale medications. We can also help you access transparent cash-pay pricing for most imaging which can often be significantly less expensive than traditional insurance pricing.

You may also continue to use your insurance for outside services.

You don't have to be sick to benefit from having a physician who knows you.

Thrive Essential emphasizes prevention as much as treatment. We have time to understand your history, identify potential risk factors, keep preventive care current, and address concerns before they become larger problems.

The value of good primary care isn't measured by how often you're sick.

Thrive Essential does not replace emergency or hospital care.

For a medical emergency, you should seek appropriate emergency treatment. Your health insurance can still be used for emergency and hospital services according to your plan.

Afterward, we can help coordinate your follow-up care and make sure the pieces of your healthcare don't get lost between different physicians and facilities.