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Our team at Assured Direct Care recently attended a Hint Summit where we had the opportunity to hear from many key leaders in health care
Uncontrolled healthcare costs are a crushing burden for businesses. But Assured Direct Care has a solution for you. Our unique, affordable and proven direct primary care model improves outcomes, boosts worker productivity, lowers absenteeism, and gives your recruiting efforts a competitive edge. Everybody wins.
Uncontrolled healthcare costs are a crushing burden for businesses. But Assured Direct Care has a solution for you. Our unique, affordable and proven direct primary care model improves outcomes, boosts worker productivity, lowers absenteeism, and gives your recruiting efforts a competitive edge. Everybody wins.
Assured Direct Care delivers—
With Assured Direct Care you pay one affordable fee per employee and avoid high, ever-increasing monthly premiums. Employees save money with improved access, avoiding unnecessary care, reduced out-of-pocket expenses, and more thoughtful use of healthcare resources.
Our highly trained doctors provide up to 90% of typical health needs, while coordinating additional care such as specialist visits, labs and imaging. As a result, employees are more likely to be healthier, happier, more productive and are less likely to miss work.
Get the best and keep the best employees. By helping lower healthcare costs, Assured Direct Care enables you to provide a robust and affordable benefits package. Plus, your organization and employees will thrive with access to more personalized and comprehensive healthcare.
Healthcare costs continue to skyrocket. But Assured Direct Care’s powerful direct primary care model can deliver up to a 30% reduction in total healthcare costs.
With the traditional insurance model, care often suffers as doctors are over-burdened with their patient load. Our providers manage a smaller number of patients and spend more time with each patient. This allows them to handle a broader spectrum of issues.
Need to be competitive by offering top-notch healthcare benefits? Turn to Assured Direct Care. Whether you’re a small or large company, now you can provide an exceptional foundation to health for every employee—as a standalone package, or with other health insurance options.
Assured Direct Care is helping companies grow by guiding them into a new world of truly affordable healthcare. We are a network of convenient direct primary care clinics. Our clinics help keep healthcare costs down by enabling greater access to doctors who can provide the majority of care your people need. Our innovative clinics offer Telehealth services and other patient-focused conveniences.
Our unique approach can reduce hospitalizations, ER and urgent care visits, and over utilization of medical resources. Copays, deductibles and co-insurance are eliminated with Assured Direct Care. Costs drop. Employees pay less and are supported in staying healthy, productive, and satisfied with their health care benefits. You pay less while your business thrives. It’s that simple.
Available for employers with anywhere from three to thousands of employees, Assured Direct Care can be a stand-alone healthcare plan or combined with a high-deductible, self-funded or medical cost-sharing plan.
A growing number of Idaho’s biggest employers have turned to Assured Direct Care. It’s time for you to join them.
We know how challenging traditional healthcare can be. That’s why we’re different.
Assured Direct Care covers up to 90% of what people need from healthcare. This keeps employee health costs low by reducing the need for specialist referrals and hospitalizations. From babies to seniors, we care for everyone—including families.
Weight Management
Health & Wellness Coaching
Smoking Cessation
Immunizations
Women's Health
Vaccinations
Infants & Child Wellness Checks
Annual & Special Purpose
School/Sport
Pre-Employment
Work/Return to Work
Pre-Op
Chronic Health Conditions
Dermatology & Skin Cancer
Mental Health & Wellness
Stress
Therapeutic Injections
Sleep Disorders
Medication Management
Blood Pressure
Cholesterol
Thyroid Conditions
Comprehensive Diabetic Care
Colds & Flu
Rashes
Lacerations & Injuries
Minor Orthopedic Care
Skin & Other Infections
Virtual Visits
Lacerations
Skin Biopsies
Burn & Wound Care
Warts
Skin Cancer
Fracture Care
EKG
Pap Smear
Pregnancy Testing
Routine Bloodwork
Urine Dipstick
Strep Testing
Assured Direct Care wants to assist you in reducing your healthcare costs. While most primary care services are included in our healthcare, we know there will be times when you’ll need other healthcare services such as labs, medical imaging, prescription medications, physical therapy, and more. To help you and your employees save money, we direct contract with companies that can provide employees with discounted services.
Recent implementations of direct primary care at actual companies have yielded impressive results in terms of healthcare costs to employers and employees. The following ADC results from 1 ½ years of DPC service!
overall in employer healthcare costs.
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per employee per year cost reduction.
Whether you choose to work with us directly, or through a broker, Assured Direct Care can help you provide better healthcare benefits to your employees—for significantly less.
It’s closer than you think. Let’s set up a time to discuss your goals and budget.
Before developing a proposal, your Affordable Direct Care team will take time to understand your employees and help you decide what healthcare benefits they and their families might need. We’ll discuss the dollar allocation and coverage you’re willing to offer, options for dependent care, and more.
We’ll develop a customized proposal with options that emphasize affordability and the highest quality care.
Choose one of the options we propose. Together we’ll discuss the best way to get you started on your timeline. You don’t have to wait until Open Enrollment, our program can start at any time of year. We’ll walk you through our straightforward onboarding process for an easy transition to better healthcare.
Explore our blog for more ways to keep your people and your business healthier.
Our team at Assured Direct Care recently attended a Hint Summit where we had the opportunity to hear from many key leaders in health care
The medical community has spent a great deal of time the past few weeks preparing for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic we are now clearly facing.
As we watch the rapid growth of confirmed cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the US and around the world, it is important to
A: There are several ways Assured Direct Care’s network of primary care clinics care can save healthcare costs. First, our doctors are trained to handle 90% of the health issues patients may have. Traditional family doctors in the insurance world handle far less. By handling more challenges, our providers reduce referrals to specialists and the need for expensive tests. Our providers are also available via virtual urgent care after hours and on weekends, potentially saving employees costly ER or urgent care visits. In addition, we offer next- or even same-day appointments to address immediate issues.
A: Because our primary care visits are 30-60 minutes. This allows time for doctors to ask more questions, and dive deeper into health issues. Our providers emphasize prevention and proactive management of health issues rather than just treating problems after they become chronic. This reduces complexity and expenses.
A: Employers need an edge in the current labor market to attract and retain high-quality employees. Offering direct primary care in your benefits packet can entice superior employees to your business. In addition, companies that offer health benefits convey concern for employee’s well-being and support them in achieving a healthy work/life balance. This leads to retention of top quality employees.
A: Direct primary care can be offered to any employee at any time of the year. Whether you have three or thousands of employees, direct primary care works as a standalone plan, or can be integrated with a high-deductible plan, medical cost-sharing or self-funding plan. There is no waiting period and benefits begin immediately. Employers can either have their employees pay the monthly fee or employers can pay a portion or all the monthly fee.
A: Over 3,000 employers are working with direct primary care organizations across the United States—and the number is constantly growing.
A: With direct primary care, employers work directly with primary care providers, eliminating the intrusive and often costly influence of insurance companies. The typical fee-for-service model of healthcare is replaced with an affordable monthly per-member payment. Thus, employees are much more likely to see a doctor regularly, which reduces costly hospitalizations.
Our primary care providers are trained to handle up to 90% of a typical patient’s healthcare needs, which reduces the need for referrals to specialists. When specialist care is needed, the primary care provider coordinates it with a larger healthcare team. Virtual care through telehealth services ensures greater access to doctors. In addition, our contracting arrangements offer much lower prices on laboratory tests, imaging and medications.
A: Yes. Assured Direct Care is devoted to maintaining good employee health, happiness, productivity, and work-life satisfaction. Reducing the cost of primary care makes it much more likely that employees will see a doctor regularly, if not frequently. Over time, doctors will build a comprehensive picture of employee health to support their long-term wellbeing.
A: No. Our advanced primary care model is based on a direct, personal relationship between patients and doctors. We believe insurers—with their often arbitrary decisions—should not influence the quality or the cost of healthcare.
A: When those services are warranted, we will track employees during their hospital stay and work closely with any specialist.
A: Yes. One of the benefits of Assured Direct Care is easier access to healthcare. We offer virtual after-hours care from the doctor you know—not a doctor that has not treated you.
A: Assured Direct Care does not involve paying fees (copays and coinsurance) for individual primary care visits. Instead, employers can either have their employees pay an affordable monthly fee covering all primary care visits; or employers can pay a portion or all the fee for them.
A: Many employers choose to cover their employees’ fees. Why? Because by making healthcare even more affordable employers can encourage their people to fully utilize their benefits and thereby stay heathier, happier and more productive. Investing in primary care helps people manage both acute and chronic conditions before they get worse.
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to