Frequently Asked Questions

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Frequently Asked Questions *

  • Direct. Personal. Unrushed. A trusted partnership with your Doctor.

    • One simple monthly membership fee of $115, per patient. Please see pricing information, below

    • “Unlimited” visits (up to once weekly, unless it is felt you need to be seen more often)

    • Same or next-day appointments

    • Longer, unhurried visits with your personal physician, who knows you best!

    • Direct access to your physician by text, phone or email

    • Self scheduling options through our Hint (EMR) patient portal

    • In-office, virtual and home visits

    • Weekend / early evening availability as needed / indicated

    • No surprise bills or co-pays for office visits

    Although this is a newer (and perhaps unfamiliar) way of healthcare to many, we feel that the robust access we will be able to provide and the detail-oriented and excellent care we will offer has significant, intrinsic, value. Our goal is to have reasonably sized patient panels in order to offer this level of service in Farmington.

  • Getting started with us is simple! Reach out via our contact form and we’ll place you on our wait-list! We will be able to start enrolling patients after June 8, 2026. We will be using an EMR called Hint Health, which was specifically created for Direct Primary Care practices. Our goal is a soft launch date of 7/13/26!

  • Direct primary care does not replace health insurance. We will not bill insurance for your visits with us, although you may use your insurance (Commercial, Medicare, Mainecare, etc) for prescriptions, lab work, imaging, procedures and specialist visits

    We are happy to accept patients who do not have health insurance

    We are happy to accept Medicare patients. Please note that we will be opting out of billing Medicare. This will mean we are considered “Out of Network” physicians. This will not / should not affect your ability to see us. Whatever testing we order, referrals, etc, should not be affected since you will still be using “In Network” facilities for these (if you choose to do so).

    We are happy to accept Mainecare patients

    We are happy to accept patients who have commercial insurance

    Your health insurance can be used towards everything it is currently being used for except our office visits. The monthly fee of $115 covers your monthly membership and office visits with us in addition to direct access to us. No staff.

  • Pricing is transparent and straightforward

    • Individual monthly membership fee is $115

    • This includes all of your office visits with us, since we will not be billing insurance for your office visits

    • Home visits may incur an additional fee (depending on travel distance from either Strong or Farmington)

    Payments accepted

    • Cash

    • Secure bank transfer (ACH) (preferred after HSA/Debit)

    • HSA cards (preferred)

    • Debit cards (preferred)

    • Credit cards (last choice if you cannot provide any of the above)

    We would prefer HSA/Debit card payments, when possible, to minimize processing fees. Credit cards have the highest processing fees (which our practice will NOT be passing along to you)

    Our goal is to keep overhead prices low so we can maintain the lowest monthly membership fees :)

    PLEASE NOTE:

    There will be an initial / one time enrollment fee of $75 to create and populate your new patient medical chart in our electronic medical record (EMR). This will ensure that we have all/most of your prior medical records and that they are set up and organized correctly. This will be an unhurried, in-person or tele-health visit, with us! Again, no staff! Direct access to US!